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    No one questioned the closeness of two soldiers during war, but John learned every day that things people overlooked during combat they wouldn’t stand for in peacetime.

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    31 Dec 2024

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    a #real post-canon fic for the ages

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    The first letter Gale gets from Bucky is about a unicorn.

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    Gale’s used to John rambling when he’s drunk, usually while hanging off one arm hooked around Gale’s shoulders, but there’s a different note to his written word. When he’s drunk in person, he likes to pester Gale with questions, get Gale to talk about himself. When it’s just John and a pen, it seems he simply shares every little thought that crosses his mind.

    He lets the letter close on its own again, staring down at his eggs until he hears “Good morning, Major!” from outside the mess hall. Hurriedly, Gale tucks the letter back into its envelope and the envelope into the pocket of his trousers. By the time the doors swing open, John sauntering in like he owns the base and the mess and the doors themselves, Gale’s sure all knowledge of John’s words—of that lipstick print pressed onto paper beside John’s name—has been wiped from his face.

    All the same, he can’t resist taking a peek. John’s walking on air. Gale smiles.

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    03 Jun 2024

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    this fic genuinely changed me. my god the romance just spills out everywhere

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    “Don’t drink, no smokes, never bet. Anythin’ else you’ve not done?” He pauses to take a drag. Gale watches the smoke return from his lungs, spilling out of his mouth like water. “You ever had the taste of a woman?”

    Gale’s face goes red. He clears his throat, willing his voice to come out casual. “’Spose you don’t mean kissing.”

    John stares. Incredulous. Open-mouthed and wide-eyed, like Gale just told him he’s never experienced Christmas. “Buck.

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    22 May 2024

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    ohhhh

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    He takes the final step, lifts the lantern to flood the empty station with light, and sees a man laying on his stable floor.
    He’s brunette, sweating, breathing unsteadily. There’s blood wiped messily on his forehead, down his neck. Half laying, half sitting up against the stack of haybales Buck keeps at the bottom of this station, he’s got one bloody hand pressed to his right thigh, which is caked with crimson. His other hand rests wearily on the Colt that’s tucked into the waistband of his pants.
    Gale’s heart jumps, he wishes suddenly that he really did have a rifle, but when the man sees that Buck’s unarmed he raises the hand slowly, in a shaky surrender.
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    “You got a name?” Buck asks, in an attempt to distract.
    The stranger swallows and takes a deep breath. “Bucky.”
    Buck almost pauses in his work. He scoffs and shakes his head. “I’ll be damned.”
    “Why’s that?”
    “People call me Buck.”
    Bucky huffs out a pained laugh, which quickly devolves into a groan. When he’s finished, he says, “Goddamn fate.”

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    The one where stablehand Gale finds outlaw John “Bucky” Egan bleeding out in his stables.

    (The sequel, seven miles out of freedom town, has been posted.)

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    08 Apr 2024

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    oh man

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    the things unspoken that make up family

    or: tim gets burned every single time

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    20 Dec 2022