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“You did what?!”Lionel laughed, “It’s not as if I sold my soul to the devil!”“I wouldn’t be so sure,” Jude muttered darkly.“Lighten up babe,” Gideon said, wrapping his arm around Jude’s shoulders. “Lionel’s just trying to keep you safe.”“If I wanted him safe Zero, I’d get rid of you.” Lionel said, taking a sip from her wine glass. “But I prefer Jude happy, and on my side.”“Jude would prefer it if the two of you got along,” Jude said, glancing between the two.“Anything for you,” Lionel said, patting his hand.Gideon kissed him, “Same”
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“Totally okay if m’not enough,” Stiles mumbled into Derek’s voicemail. “Juss as slong as is juss me when I’m there.” Stills rolled onto his back and stared up at the ceiling. “And you use a condoms.”“M’not ready to be a Dad. She sounded nice, the three times we spoke the three times I called. Did you tell her bout me? She deserves ta know, specially when we co-parent.”“Derek?” Stiles questioned, staring at the man at the foot of his bed.Derek sat beside him and pulled him into a hug. “She was a succubus.”Stiles burst into tears.
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Harry vowed not to say anything; Eggsy had thought he was dead and he was allowed to find comfort with somebody else. That it was with his best friend was just something he was going to have to get over.“Harry, everything okay love?”Harry glanced up, Eggsy was standing in the doorway looking worried. Harry straightened, hands still clutching the refuse bag he’d just shoved the tainted bedding into. “Yes, the linen has not been changed in months, so these are going into the bin.”Eggsy smiled at him; a soft, warm thing. “Need help?”“No thank you darling.”
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“Cash?” Tango paused in removing his jacket at the sight of his partner. “Hot date tonight?”“I told Kiki this was a stupid idea,” Cash muttered to himself, stepping out of his heels. As Cash reached for the coat laying across the back of the couch, Tango grabbed his wrist. “Whoa whoa, calm down man. Kiki put you up to this?”“It didn’t take much,” Cash said, blushing beneath his makeup.“Yeah?” Tango asked, touching the soft material of the other man’s dress. “You do all this for me Gabriel?”Cash was breathless as he asked, “Do you like it?”
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“Will,” Henry murmured into the frigid air of the cave. Will hummed in response but otherwise did not move.Henry shuffled closer to the other man on his knees, worry ratcheting when he noticed that Will was no longer shivering. “We gotta get you warmed up...”Henry stripped quickly and then began tugging off a protesting Will’s clothes until he had him in boxers and socks. Quickly, he lay their clothing out into a nest and then laid Will in it.Henry took a deep breath before he transformed, then gently covered Will’s body with his own warmer, furrier one.
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“You don’t got to worry about these no more,” Chris said, dropping a stack of papers onto the table in front of Vin.Vin watched the other man take a seat and pour himself a drink before having a look at the papers, heart stopping when he recognised his own likeness under the word WANTED. “You sure bout that?”Chris patted the breast of his jacket as he spoke, “Got a letter here, signed by a city Judge, says so.” Chris held his eyes as Vin stared at him, “Reckon I owe ya.”“Come on out to my ranch tomorrow...”
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“Did you send my mother a selfie?” Perry demanded, sounding scandalised.“A what now?” Harry looked suitably confused as he looked up at Perry.Perry sighed, rubbing at his temples. “It’s when you take a photo of yourself.”“Yeah,” Harry said, grinning. “She wanted to know what your new ‘‘Girl Friday’’ looked like.”“You’re such a fucktard,” Perry muttered, dropping into his chair.“Hey!” Harry protested with a pout.“You took the fucking thing in my bathroom, with me naked in the background!” Perry yelled, “Now she thinks we’re a thing!”“We are a thing,” Harry said hesitantly. “Aren’t we?”
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He’s reading over his latest chapter when a voice asks from the doorway, “Shaun?”Shaun highlights a mistake before looking up, “Yeah bud?”Cody smiles at him as he asks, “Could you help me with my homework?”“Sure Codes! What kind of homework is it?” Shaun asks as he gets up and leads the way to the dining table.“We have to do a family tree,” the boy says, sounding hesitant.“Oh,” Shaun murmurs. “Maybe we should wait for Zach to get home?”“Okay.” Cody bites his bottom lip before asking, “Can’t I just make it the three of us?”
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“You’re sure he’s there?”Tony Stark merely raised an eyebrow in reply. “If that really is Nathan’s subcutaneous tracker’s frequency...”“Thank you,” Jack said, stopping to catch the other man’s eye. “For all of your help.”Tony’s smile grew as he nodded. “Sure you don’t want me to do it?”“I have to do this myself.” Jack said as he shook his head no. “I-”“Sheriff?” S.A.R.A.H. interrupted gently. “Doctor Stark has 9 hours left before the poison does permanent damage to his organs.”“Time to go,” Jack said, tucking two SMGs into his shoulder holster.
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Hansel was slowly making his way through their weapons, cleaning and sharpening and oiling, when Gretel dropped down next to him asking: “Have you seen Ben’s Mark?” Hansel’s brow furrowed in confusion at the random question. “No…”“It’s here,” she said softly, placing gentle fingers at the back of his right knee.Hansel flinched at the touch, eyes wide at the implications. “You- You’re sure?”Gretel nodded decisively, “He was in the river rinsing off when I saw it.” And she knew his Mark as well as he knew hers.“What do I do?” Hansel implored.“Tell him,” she said.
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Howard doesn’t care that Evan doesn’t return his hug, too overwhelmed to have him back safe and sound, but he does notice when Evan jerks his head back when Howard goes to kiss him.“I’m sorry,” Evan says softly, stepping back and out of Howard’s arms. He takes a moment to really look at Evan, “You’re not my Evan.”“Can we talk about this later?” Evan asks, gaze darting to the military personnel still milling about outside the abandoned copper mine.Howard nods absently, distracted by the thought of how much easier it’ll be to woo Evan this time around.
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“What is this?” Marcus asked, voice laced with confusion as he touched the bubbles which hid his bath water.Esca hid his smile as he bent to undo Marcus’ sandals. “It is a new kind of bathing soap I discovered at the market.”“It smells of flowers,” Marcus complained, arms raising as Esca removed his tunic.“It is soap,” Esca explained slowly. “Do not all soaps smell of flowers?”Marcus chuckled at his words, “Not the soap I used as a centurion.”After settling among the bubbles, Marcus glanced at the retreating Esca. “Will you not join me mo bhilis?”
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The Immortal Presence was a caress up his spine that rested at the base of his skull, causing something inside of Methos to ease because Duncan MacLeod yet lived.“It’s been a long time old man,” the familiar, and often missed, voice said.Methos turned to look upon the Highlander for the first time in centuries. “I’m sorry that it’s been so long.”“You needed time,” MacLeod shrugged. “I could spare some.”“I was a fool,” Methos declared, stepping closer to lay his hand over Duncan’s heart. “Forgive me?”“Always,” Duncan murmured as he lifted Methos’ hand to his lips.
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“Look,” Russ says, sounding grumpy as Milt’s index finger circles his rim. “Just... go slow.”Milt huffs a laugh as he looks up at the other man, eyebrow raised and smirking. “Been a while?”Milt watches as Russ’ face falls, before he’s turning away, a blush spreading up his chest.“Russ?” Milt asks, humour forgotten as he moves to lay beside him. “It’s no big deal,” but Russ won’t look at him.Milt smooths a hand down Russ’ back, wondering if it’s a bad experience that has Russ weary.Russ sighs then says, “Never been with a guy before.”
Oh.
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“I can’t keep letting you do this!” Warren said through gritted teeth, slamming into Will.Will’s laugh was an ugly thing. “You think you can stop me, Peacekeeper?”Warren tightened the arms he had wrapped around WIll and then spread his flames to engulf them.“You flames can’t hurt me,” Will sneered. Warren looked into Will’s eyes, their cloudiness spurring him on, until the flames closest to his body burned blue. “I’m not trying to hurt you Will, I’m saving you.”Will’s eyes narrowed but he couldn’t say anything as he struggled to breathe, and then he sagged forward, unconscious.
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Next to him in the window seat Matt made a noise of disgust, causing John to crack open an eye and peer at him. “What’s wrong now?”“This!” Matt gestured with the brochure in his hands. “It’s like they think the only thing people want to see when they come to Paris is the Eiffel Tower!”“You were the one to pick Paris, kid.”Matt turned his glare on John. “I picked France, as in the country, Lucy decided Paris was more romantic.”John eased back into his comfy seat as he said, “That’s kinda the point of a honeymoon.”
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Rodney wrapped a leg around John’s waist, took hold of a webbed hand and guided it to his hole. John immediately pulled back from nuzzling him and looked at him with large eyes, one finger following slowly as Rodney circled his rim with his index finger.Rodney was surprised when John’s hands came up to cup his face tenderly, but before Rodney could be disappointed, one of John’s tentacles continued what his finger had been doing.When Rodney focussed on John’s eyes there was a question there, to which he nodded. And then the tentacle dipped it’s tip into him.
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“Release him,” Brian stated firmly as he stepped forward.The guard holding Vince sneered at him, “We do not take orders from the likes of you!”“You will obey an order from me.” Brian said as he ripped the front of his tunic to display the King’s Emblem burnt into the flesh over his heart. “I am Knight O’Conner and I carry out the King’s Will.”---Brian watches the carriage carrying the King’s Gold disappear over the next rise in the road.“Is it the King’s Will that we die?” Dominic demands of him.“Only you Dominic, but I cannot.”
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“You have brothers,” Henry said, dropping a file on Mike’s desk. "No," Mike glared at him as he answered. “I’m an only child.”“Then how do you explain the man who looks, and tastes, exactly like you currently attending the renewable energy conference.”“You tasted him?!” Mike demanded, unaware he had pushed to his feet.Henry shrugged, “I thought he was you.”Mike grabbed the folder and flipped it open, anger fading when he saw his own face under the name Dave Sheppard.Henry rested his cheek on Mike’s shoulder, “I knew immediately he wasn’t you, so I ‘questioned’ him.”
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“You were dead,” is the only thing Judson can say as he stares at Stefan.“Yeah,” Stefan says, eyes avoiding Judson. “I gave them quite a scare when I sat up all of a sudden.”Judson . . . can’t process anything.“So what do you want?” Mack asks, and even Judson can hear the hard edge to her voice.Stefan takes a deep breath, squares his shoulder and finally looks at Judson. After a moment he nods and says, “Nothing else.” And then turns to walk away.“No!” Judson yells, lurching forward to latch onto the other man. “Don’t leave me again.”
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Ray’s mouth drops open at the sight before him. Fraser lays spreadeagled across the snow, not a hint of snow on him despite the gently falling flakes, and what looks like wings beneath him. Actual wings! And not the kind you make flapping your arms in the snow. Actual wings, like those of angels, made of snow.“Frase?” Ray manages to choke out. Fraser’s eyes snap open, unerringly finding Ray’s. “Oh dear.” Before Fraser can put them away and claim Ray is hallucinating, Ray drops to his knees and hesitantly touches one. “Can you fly?”Fraser grins, “Only during snowstorms.”
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When the Normandy’s gravity fails Doctor Chakwas radios for help, James is the only one to react and quickly makes his way down to the infirmary.Doctor Chakwas is bodily holding someone to a medical bed when he gets to the infirmary and his heart drops when he realises it’s Esteban. “Quickly,” she says, and James wastes no time in replacing her.“Hey,” Esteban says weakly, blue eyes filled with pain. “Fancy meeting you here.”James laughs happily to see the other man conscious after having dragged him from the burning wreck of his kodiak and without thinking kisses him.
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She presents everything to Father logically, although her reasons are not, and soon she is the one to create all of their aliases. The first time John notices that his alias for their current number is in a relationship with Father’s, he winks at her as he chuckles. It takes only three more aliases for John to notice that this is a recurring thing, and then he waits until they are alone in the library before confronting her.Father gives her a stern talking to when he notices for the first time.So she locks them in a vault instead.
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“Charlie? What are you doing here?” Ted stared at the redhead seated comfortably in the driver's seat of an idling convertible.Charlie tugged his sunglasses down his nose. “Amanda told me you were looking for Olivia, thought you might want some company...”
Three Days Later
“I'm chasing a fantasy aren't I?” Ted asked as they returned to their hotel room, their search still unsuccessful. “There's nothing wrong with wanting something normal again Ted.”“What if the normal I want isn’t from before?” Ted reached out to gently touch Charlie’s hand.Charlie turned to look him in the eye. “You’re sure?”
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“I’ve never…” Michael’s voice quavers, breath ghosting over the tip of Sean’s erection.“Then don’t,” the CIA agent says, reaching for his jeans.Michael stops him, pushes him back against the couch. “I want to, just don’t know how good it’ll be.”Sean grabs one of the former thief’s hands and nips at his fingertips. “As long as you don’t use your teeth, there’s no way to go wrong.”“Just,” Michael lifts up for a quick kiss. “Don’t complain if it’s terrible.”Sean nods, watching Michael take a deep breath before taking the head of his cock into his mouth.