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    They'd had a horrible fight. Daniel, dejected and angry that Armand refused to give him the Dark Gift, stormed out, intending to blow off some steam until he was desperate enough to ask Armand to come get him. Instead, he found himself in the weirdest place, with a bunch of French vampires and an Armand that didn't know him.

    Or: a study in loneliness.

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    ‘I’m sorry’ will never be in Billy’s vocabulary. They are just two dirty words that liars and cowards use. But he knows what it means to be sorry.

    Billy picks up a butterfly bandage, holds it between his fingers for Steve to see. Waits for Steve to drop his chin in a nod, and then presses it into place against Steve’s busted eyebrow. It’s the best Billy has to give.

    This probably isn’t going to work out. This thing Billy’s been trying to have with Steve since he got to Hawkins. Steve’s got these soft edges where Billy’s all blunt and sharp.

    Billy drags his fingertips down the side of Steve’s face, presses his thumb against the scar he didn’t leave, and lifts a brow. “How many fights do you lose, Harrington?”

    Steve grins, a half-formed thing that is sharp and sad at the same time. “All of them.”

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    Punk snorted. “Max, if you can last two- no, you know what? If you can last a single week without insulting anyone, or acting rude, or getting up to any of your dirty tricks, really- if you can convincingly act like a polite, normal nice young man…” Punk approached him again until they were seeing eye to eye, serious as a heart attack. “Then I’ll show you what you want to see. You’ll get the match against me that you want.”

    And for a single moment, at an angle that the cameras couldn’t catch, CM Punk brought forth all the pieces of himself that young Max had grown up on, and which TK had warned him not to let anyone see.

    MJF’s face lit up.
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    A bet is made. The cards could not be more stacked in CM Punk's favor. But those are exactly the odds that MJF loves playing with- it makes the satisfaction of winning even more sweet.

    ABANDONED now that I have a better grasp on characterization. Feel free to peruse anyway if you got a mild bdsm fetish though :)

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    Just a fic about Johnny and Dally falling in love, taking forever to admit it, then facing the struggles of being two gay men in the 1960s.

    This originally wasn't my plan, but in light of recent events and personal events, I'm stepping down from this project and will no longer be continuing it. Although I feel the ending is lackluster, chapter 37 is indeed the final chapter.

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    Daniel's eyes drift to his bicep, to where the tattoo lies beneath his sleeve.

    "Do you still have it?" he asks.

    "No," Johnny lies. "I got rid of it years ago."

    Meeting an ex again is always awkward. It's even more awkward when said ex opens up a rival dojo, when he's trying to ruin your life at every opportunity, when your best student is dating his daughter, and when you still have a tattoo on your arm that reads DANIEL FOREVER in looping cursive against a blood-red heart.

    Johnny's life has never been more of a mess.

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    23 Feb 2022