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    A year isn’t that long, in the grand scheme of things. But the grand scheme has shifted. Has snarling valleys now that could swallow his campervan whole, has forests with teeth of splintered pine, and winding roads that trail off the face of the Earth.

    (Cal, Bode, and the apocalypse.)

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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    "We’ve been through literal hell," he reminds Salim, probably harsher than is strictly necessary. "I’ve lost my whole team and almost had my ass kicked by fucking vampires. So excuse me for not being peachy keen."

    As if to stab him in the fucking back, his throat seizes up as cough after cough rattles from his lungs.

    "That doesn’t sound healthy," Salim points out.

    "Tough fucking shit."

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    17 May 2026

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    “Hi, Jim,” he said to the mirror. “I just wanted you to know, I’m having psychic flashes to an indeterminate point in time and space where we’re really chummy. And I’m a better doctor than I am now. And Spock sometimes smiles, and you’re just as in love with the Enterprise as you always were. It’s nice, but distressing, and I think I might be going crazy.”

     

    AOS Bones travels to TOS Enterprise. He finds the three of them together, older and happier. Friendly, even. He might want something like that, too.

    He might get more than he bargained for.

    -COMPLETE-

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    19 Jan 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    It's hard falling for a man whose heart is spoken for. She doesn't even know if she would call it that, but it doesn't stop her from wishing that things were different.

    [ Please do not copy to another site without permission. Thank you! ]

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    25 Nov 2025

  4. Rec 46

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    McVries tells him about meeting Ray when he’d only just meant to be passing through Freeport. He casually asks Stebbins if he believes in soulmates while he’s elbow-deep in the ceiling, and when Stebbins freezes stock still on the ladder, he only laughs that easy laugh of his and keeps on describing their meet-cute like he wasn’t really expecting an answer anyway. It’s a sweet story. Romantic, at least in the way McVries tells it.

    It’s the kind of story that twists Stebbins up in places he didn’t even realize could get knots until his smile looks like it hurts. It was love at first sight. McVries doesn’t ask if he believes in that, too, and Stebbins is grateful that he doesn’t have to stutter out an answer that he’s not entirely sure he knows.

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    or the one where ray and pete buy an abandoned bar in a dying mountain town and hire a local carpenter named billy stebbins to help them restore it

    a small town love story nobody asked for told in four parts over four seasons

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    03 Nov 2025

  5. Rec 31

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    Suddenly, it felt less important to know how many miles there were to Freeport than to watch this— the way Garraty turned his face towards McVries’ neck, for just a moment, to breathe. Like when his Ma said to keep eyes on the pulpit during service. Not for his own personal good, no. But just so that someone saw it; so it was affirmed in that sense, whatever it was Garraty and McVries had.

    That it really did exist, here, in this Godawful place.

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    Barkovitch loses it, for real this time. Pete and Ray draw together. Stebbins is witness.

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    25 Oct 2025