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They stared at each other; the Batman’s black cowl obscuring the sweat that dripped from his forehead, drenching him in a silent cold dread, and the man with his awkward gait stepping to the side, nearer and closer, his hands fumbling over the rifle in realization of his clear advantage. He reloaded his weapon in a series of clumsy clicks, his eyes darting from the metal in his hands to the man who clung to the metal below him, dangling above the impending watery wreckage of Gotham.
Even with his glasses, he could not see beyond the suit of Batman.
He needed the mask: the freedom from the chains and expectations of the manor, the vengeance it allowed in the twilight, the wall it erected between the mask and Selina Kyle, preventing her from drawing too near.
Laying on the catwalk, the mask suffocated him. He needed to breathe.
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If They Haven't Learned Your Name by silentwalrus
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Apr 2018
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Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.”
“That is not standing,” Sam tells him.
“You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.”
aka Steve and Bucky's Global Honeymoon Revenge World Tour.Podfic of this story available by the incredible quietnight!
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14 Mar 2022
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YES. POST-WS STUCKY YESSS
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that'll leave a mark by subcorax
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Feb 2026
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Shane heads straight to his stall, starts tugging his jersey over his head, and without any preamble, turns to Ostrovsky and says, “Rook, what was the one thing I told you not to do tonight?”
Guiltily, Ostrovsky lisps, “Get into shit with Rozanov and Marleau.”
Shane sighs, all put-upon weariness. “And what was the literal first thing you did?”
Or: Five fights Shane Hollander (tries to) stop on the ice, and the one that he starts.
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11 Jun 2026
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more hockey than heated rivalry
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“Dinosaurs didn’t speak, Ilya, they-”
“We can do this later, Hollander. Right now, we’re here to kill him, no?”
“What!?”
“Ah, yes,” Rozanov actually looked a little sheepish, but then, “We are here to kill you. I did not mention that?”
“No!"
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feeling good was easy when he sang the blues by forjodssake
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
08 Dec 2022
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One morning of listening to the radio, stretched out over ten thousand years, two lovers, and the end of the world in between.
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One More Son by captainpeggy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
09 Jan 2023
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Gideon, of course, would have known Wake by the curl of her iliac crest, the line of her zygomatic bone, the slight arch of her metacarpals. Gideon would have known her in a heartbeat, spotted her as easily in death as in life, read her in a language where he claimed fluency. Gideon could have named her off a shard of femur by the thanergetic signature. Gideon was dead, and he wasn’t going to know her any longer.
After Nona, Pyrrha Dve walks the Ninth.