She thinks that if they were ever married, they’d have a throwing pots and pans, waking up the neighbors kind of life. Then a wave of guilt pulls her under. She expunges the word ‘married’ from her mental vocabulary.
Source: Angle of Descent – Chapter 1, by daphnaea – Battlestar Galactica (2003) [Archive of Our Own]
This fic traces an entirely believable progression of their relationship – one that’s none-too-smooth but kind of inevitable.
Standing under the nearest faucet, hands on the wall, head bowed under the spray is Lee Adama. Water sluices down his back, between his shoulder blades, over pale skin and bulging muscles, every inch proving that life can indeed imitate art and the CAG’s callsign was no joke.
Naked bodies are generally about as interesting as the bulkheads on a battlestar. Kara never stares, didn’t even when she was rook.
But this is Lee. And she’s wondered for far too long to stop staring now.
Source: About Time, by callmeonetrack – Battlestar Galactica (2003) [Archive of Our Own]
Yummy, set during 33 – I very much wanted the show to go this route. 🙂
Jack had actually imagined being stranded off-world quite a few times. He had to. It had always been a real possibility and he needed to be prepared. It’s just… he’d never imagined it quite like this. In some of his more dangerous moments, he’d even thought about being stranded with Sam. Just them. Alone. And a part of him hadn’t exactly found the idea… unattractive.
But he really, really, really hadn’t counted on being stranded off-world with Sam. And Pete.
Source: Bird Stealing Bread (Sam/Jack) R – Surreallis Fic — LiveJournal
This is what I was always craving when watching SG-1.
“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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.”
In which Marcus is the slave of matriarchal Seal People, but things aren’t quite as they seem… Delicious.
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.
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!
