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"Jesus. You got that photographic memory or something?"
Gale shrugs, shaking back into his usual reticent personality. John only knows the word because he'd spied it on one of Gale's report cards, written in neat teacher cursive. He had looked it up afterward, stepping foot into the school library for the first and only time in his academic career so far.
"Something, I guess," Gale says.
-- scenes from a Good Will Hunting AU
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28 Jan 2026
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“It’ll be fun,” Marge says to him over the phone as he’s unpacking another box in his tiny, studio apartment. “I’ve been to a few other classes, it’s a good environment.”
“It doesn’t sound like my sort of environment, Marge,” Gale says, picking up an astrophysics textbook that pushes the bounds of what a single-handed grip is capable of. It strains the tendons in his wrist as he tries not to drop it on the way to its new home in the built-in bookshelf. The edges of it are bloated, almost rubbery with how many times it’s been painted over in the same shade of white, a few spots chipped away to show rich brown wood underneath.
“Your sort of environment is on a hill with a telescope, with nobody around.”
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Bucky's always wanted things that aren’t good for him.
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13 Jan 2026
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John releases Gale’s wrist to cup the side of his neck, brushing his thumb along his jaw. “Christ, Buck.” Just inches from his face, he can see his exhaustion, can smell the smoke and soot on him, the quiet, iron tang of blood. “Christ. You…”
He trails off, breathless at the unextinguished pulse beneath his fingers, the lingering warmth of Gale’s skin — these things he can still feel, somehow, things he thought he would not feel again.
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A 1x04 AU: Buck comes back late and wounded.
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12 Jan 2026
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James Cleven dies on an unassuming Saturday in late February. On a freezing Friday in March, Gale Cleven comes home.
He plans to stay for a week, get rid of the ranch his father left him, and get back to his life.
John Egan throws a wrench in things.