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Shivering, Nicky draws in tighter on himself. The room they’re being held in is small, but it’s drafty. The vents keep letting in more bursts of air, and they took Nicky on his evening run. He’s wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and the sweat has long-since become cold and clammy against his skin. He has no real concept of how long they’ve been in here, but he knows it’s been at least three hours. That makes it past midnight. There are goosebumps on his knees.
To his left, Joe shifts.
Nicky starts.
“It’s okay,” Joe says, voice hushed. It’s an improvement over the first hour, when he wouldn’t stop calling for help even though there was clearly no one listening. “We’ll be warmer closer together.”
Romance novel blurb: Kidnapped together, sons of rival business moguls Joe al-Kaysani and Nicky di Genova find common ground...and maybe more.
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When Yusuf was very young, his mother gave him a deep blue cloak made of stars. She wrapped it tight around his shoulders and told him it would always keep him safe.
Then he went to war.
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The last time di Genova and al-Kaysani met on the pitch, it infamously ended with a red card for al-Kaysani and a media firestorm for di Genova. “Will you be able to work together?”
Al-Kaysani toys with the handle of his coffee cup. “We’re all professionals,” he says eventually. “I’m excited to see what he’ll bring to the pitch.”
Or: Rival football players Joe al-Kaysani and Nicky di Genova learn to work together on the same team.
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“I wish I could touch you,” Jake says.
Bradley almost makes a phone sex joke in response, but Jake’s voice is so nakedly longing he can’t get it over his lips. It’s two in the morning in Pensacola and Bradley’s already running on too little sleep, but they haven’t talked in more than a week.
“You okay?” he asks.
Bradley, Jake and the trials of time, distance and the ever-present third party in their relationship, the U.S. Navy.
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The thing is, he and Bradshaw aren’t friends.
They’ve never been friends.
There was a hazy period, when their paths crossed in flight school and no one had a callsign yet, when they might have been, but Jake had ruined that by being himself–interested in his own advancement and little else. He wasn’t exactly the kind of guy who kept in touch with his classmates after the fact. Coyote’s just lucky they were stationed together.
But Bradshaw…well, the next time they saw each other, their paths had diverged. Their callsigns had been set and their chance at friendship had been gone. Everything that’s come since was something else.
“So what do you say, Seresin?” Payback asks.
Jake blinks. He zoned out, missed the terms of the bet. If he says yes, he’s agreeing to who knows what. If he says no, he’s a coward. “I’m in,” he says.
Or, Jake agrees on a bet to get the most phone numbers in a night.
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the new me (is really still the real me) by dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14
Fandom The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Feb 2022
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Joe's a millennial with student loan debt, a dead-end career as a personal trainer, and a lumpy futon for a bed. He's also the new immortal.
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Don and Kathy would move in together. They would have a dog or two and then inevitably, a small parade of adorable little brats who would call him Uncle Cosmo, and they would spend less and less time with him, not on purpose but busy with the rest of their lives, and ultimately Cosmo would learn to make his peace with it because he’d have no other choice and he would have to try to move on and not live too much in his memories. He could picture it so clearly, he figured if the songwriting gig with Monumental didn’t pan out, he could always return to the backwater circuit with a new act: The Amazing Cosmo of the Cosmos—ladies and gentlemen, he sees the future, he reads the stars, he silently pines for his best married pal and all the while tap dancing!
Don and Kathy inviting him along on their honeymoon, though—that part was a surprise.
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23 Aug 2024
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The Penguins participate in no nut november in 2016.
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“Are we actually doing this?” Fleury asks eagerly, shit-eating grin on his face. He watches as Sid posts a copy of the roster to a board inside the locker room.
Sid sighs. “Dumo and Rusty convinced me we have to,” he says. “For, like, charity. Or something.”
Tanger raises an eyebrow. “How does not… you know. How does that help charity?”
Dumo steps in quickly. “It raises awareness! Prostate cancer kills!”
“Ok, but we’re not telling anyone about this,” Sid rushes to say. “Like, this absolutely has to stay in the locker room, you get that, right?”
Bryan rolls his eyes. “Obviously, Croz.”
“So how does this… whatever. You all want to do this, be my guest,” Sid says.
“No, no, captain must participate too,” Geno pipes in. “How else will team bond?”
“Fine,” Sid says unhappily. “I’ll do it too.”
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- Part 67 of Men's Hockey RPF
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27 Feb 2024
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Wyatt was not, like, nosy. For sure, he was interested. He was curious. He engaged with people, obviously, because most people were interesting and engaging and had cool thoughts and said neat stuff if you asked.
So, no. Wyatt wasn’t nosy, but he wasn’t stupid, either.
Or: A Bromance Blooms In Ottawa
Or: The Ballad of Wyatt and Ilya- Language:
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17 Oct 2023
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My Better Half by WaffleToaster for LadyLanera
Fandoms: Top Gun: Maverick (2020), Top Gun (Movies)
13 Oct 2023
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“You don’t know what you want, Bradshaw. You don’t want me, you may think you do, but you don’t.”
When Bradley finds out about Jake's deepest and darkest secret, he begins to understand the meaning behind those words.
He just never imagined it was going to take magic, pheromones, a life or death situation and sex for him to win Jake back.Series
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15 Oct 2023
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His whole life, all Bradley Bradshaw has ever wanted is to join the Navy. But his mother kept him shielded from the darker side of the Navy - especially its conservative views of omegas.
Bradley finds this out first hand at twenty-two years old, when he goes to a party at his new CO's office and meets his omega - Jake Seresin, Bradley's summer camp crush. Only it's Jake Prentiss now, with three small kids and another on the way, held captive not by laws but by the oppressive weight of his family, his duties, and the Navy's idea of a good omega.
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- Part 1 of Years of Salt and Sunshine
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15 Oct 2023