Gilmore Girls Fic: “Good Girls Do” – Rory/Dean – R/NC17 – Modern Spinsterhood — LiveJournal

“I’m building a house,” he tells her when they bump into each other one day at the gas station.

“Oh!” she says, “that’s great.” So grown up, she thinks. And probably requiring lots of sweatiness and heavy lifting. How exactly was she so good when they were kids? He didn’t sport a tool belt back then, she remembers. That’s got to be it.

Source: Gilmore Girls Fic: “Good Girls Do” – Rory/Dean – R/NC17 – Modern Spinsterhood — LiveJournal

Canon-divergence. Rory comes back to Stars Hollow. Dean never left. Delicious!

Out of the Ice, by Paraxdisepink – Captain America – All Media Types, The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]

It scared him, Steve could understand that, one revelation too many these days. But Steve had stopped thinking clearly and one instant his eyes went to Bucky’s parted lips and the next he was diving for him.

He may as well have jumped from that speeding train after Bucky in the ice. That’s what it felt like Steve was doing, terrified and determined at the same time, clutching at Bucky’s cold, soaked clothes. Steve slapped a hand against the wall and crushed their mouths together so hard Bucky’s head bumped against the plaster. Steve kept him there with his thigh pressed to Bucky’s full length. Bucky’s hands went to his shoulders, but he didn’t try to break free.

Steve pulled back and a moment of paralyzing fear set in under the heat rushing through him that he had done the one thing that would make Bucky not want anything more to do with him. Steve forced himself to look at him. Bucky’s breathing had quickened and his mouth, a shade redder now, curved up in a shadow of its old smirk.

“Family, huh?” his voice was rough.

Source: Out of the Ice, by Paraxdisepink – Captain America – All Media Types, The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]

A mix of movie and comic canon, these two fics pull no punches, both when it comes to the damage that’s been done to Bucky and the hard, desperate edges in his relationship with Steve. It’s a long road, and a hard one, but I love how it slowly, slowly progresses.

Falling Toward Apotheosis, by romanticalgirl – Captain America (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]

Bucky keeps driving, not looking at Steve. “You gonna give me a blue ticket?”

“What?” Steve stops, frozen, and Bucky stops the Jeep and gets out and walks back to him.

“Not like you could think what you saw was anything but what it was. So I wanna know if you’re gonna give me a blue ticket and send me home.”

“You think I’d do that.” Steve can hear the hurt in his voice, and Bucky flinches from it. “You think I’d do that. To you.” He shakes his head. “Looks like neither of us knows each other as well as we thought we did. Go back to base. I’ll be there in a while.”

“Steve.”

Steve looks at Bucky and shakes his head. “Go back, Buck. I’m not very good company right now.”

Source: Falling Toward Apotheosis, by romanticalgirl – Captain America (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]

Steve catches Bucky fucking a man. Neither one of them knows how to deal with this fact. The Howlies just want their leading team to make up. – Love the progression here, slow without feeling artificially drawn-out.

Kings of the Air, by FabulaRasa – Top Gun (1986) [Archive of Our Own]

It was that easy, apparently. Without thinking about it, or realizing it was happening until it had happened, Ice was his wingman on and off the ground.

Source: Kings of the Air, by FabulaRasa – Top Gun (1986) [Archive of Our Own]

An oldie but a goodie, this is the perfect post-movie fic.

The Queen of Wishful Thinking, by megyal – Fall Out Boy [Archive of Our Own]

So, Ashlee isn’t exactly the top of the Mensa heap, but she’s not blind, you know?

“You touch Patrick a lot,” she muses out of the blue, voice raised to carry over the pulsing music playing at the dance-floor, during one of the many after-parties they’ve been invited to. Pete looks slightly taken aback. “I mean. Like all the time.”

Source: The Queen of Wishful Thinking, by megyal – Fall Out Boy [Archive of Our Own]

Ashlee starts something without quite realising what it means. This is not a poly fic…

North of the Wall, by Hussy_Riot (TheIrisRainbird) – The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth – All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Dergdian stood waiting for them. He was holding one end of a chain. At the other end was a collared man: a dark-haired, golden-skinned creature, as Roman as Esca was British. Even through his tunic, the bulk of his muscled body was unmistakable. Esca’s heart almost stopped.

“I would have offered you to fight him,” the queen said (he could no longer think of her as merely his hostess when the sinking sun made her hair and skin gleam like that of a goddess), “but you have travelled far, and he is fierce. Dergdian will fight him for your entertainment.”

Source: North of the Wall, by Hussy_Riot (TheIrisRainbird) – The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth – All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

In which Marcus is the slave of matriarchal Seal People, but things aren’t quite as they seem… Delicious.

closed by a thread, by addandsubtract – The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011) [Archive of Our Own]

Uncle, though. Esca remembers Aquila asking after his nephew at the hangar when they arrived, but he hadn’t realized that the nephew was a pilot. The pilot they need a copilot for is an Aquila. The thought of it makes Esca’s chest tighten, caught between excitement and dread. Would it be a sick revenge, to drift with the man whose father caused the death of Esca’s? Would it be justice? He can’t be sure.

Source: closed by a thread, by addandsubtract – The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011) [Archive of Our Own]

Esca gets into the jaeger program from prison with one goal – kill kaiju and die nobly. Obviously Marcus will help with the first but refuse to let him do the latter. Awesome Pacific Rim AU!

Not Even Touching – Chapter 1, by joanlocked – Call Me By Your Name (2017) [Archive of Our Own] | https://archiveofourown.org/

Oliver’s eyes were piercing, but his expression and overall body language was quite the contrary. He had mastered the art of looking nonchalant while saying unspeakable things, so it wasn’t hard for him to trick people into thinking he was holding some innocent conversation about the weather, or his book, or his day. When he spoke next, it was with a serene smile on his lips.

“Because all I can think of is taking your clothes off, sitting you on that table and fucking you in front of everyone.”

Elio gulped and looked around. As he predicted, nobody was paying any attention to them, all too involved in their conversations or focused on dessert.

Source: Not Even Touching – Chapter 1, by joanlocked – Call Me By Your Name (2017) [Archive of Our Own] | https://archiveofourown.org/

When they see each other again, Oliver and Elio are still drawn to each other, despite all the reasons they shouldn’t be. So they start playing a dangerous game… The tension is delicious (if you can overlook the cheating).

Dare by J S Cavalcante

Kirk met Spock’s eyes unobtrusively and flicked a glance at Keth and the other warriors. Spock received the signal loud and clear: Think we can take them? He shook his head infinitesimally.

Kirk glanced away, but not before shooting a disgusted look at Spock.

Fool, Spock thought, you would rather risk your life, and mine, than back down. Anger sparked and flared into life somewhere deep inside him. Ironically, Kirk’s illogical reaction would make it easier for Spock to do what he had to do. Deliberately, Spock released the controls he normally would have used to suppress the anger, and instead allowed it to flare inside him. Distasteful as it was, he would need his quite real anger in order to perform convincingly.

Source: Dare by J S Cavalcante (locked for AO3 users)

Spock has to take drastic measures to save Kirk… I love the non-controlled Vulcan badassery – and naturally, so does Kirk. 😉

Broken to Hand, by romanticalgirl – King Arthur (2004) [Archive of Our Own] | https://archiveofourown.org/

Arthur lowered his voice further, though no one else was near. “Then why did you come to my bed complaining that Roman women couldn’t satisfy you? All their skill and desire bored out of them?” He smiled again, his eyes watching Lancelot’s lithe form move around the enclosure slowly, the horse still keeping his distance. “Though if it’s Roman men that have bored them so, it does beg the question of why it was my bed you came to.”

Source: Broken to Hand, by romanticalgirl – King Arthur (2004) [Archive of Our Own] | https://archiveofourown.org/

Oh, this takes me back… The tension between Arthur and Lancelot here is too delicious for words.