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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    John started teaching Henry to read when they were on the HMS Beagle together. He taught Henry other things once they were back on land.

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    08 Sep 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 69

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    “Um, hello,” a voice that is distinctly not Gale comes through the connection. “Is this John Egan?”

    “Yes,” John replies, switching the phone to his other hand, hoping it’s less wet. It’s not. “Who’s this?”

    “I’m a nurse at Lakeside Memorial,” she supplies and John’s knees go weak. “I’m calling because your friend, Gale Cleven, was brought in about an hour ago. He was in an accident.”

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    Post-War Snapshot. Gale is an accident and the phone call shakes John. They take care of each other in their own ways during a peaceful weekend at home.

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    30 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    The day Gale sees John through that barbed chain link fence is the best day of his life.

    It’s also the first time he’s really, truly cried in a long time.

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    26 Aug 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 53

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    “Are you numb, Bucky?” asks Gale, with a tinge of sadness in his voice. “If you are, why won’t you just talk to me?”

    “I can’t get the words out,” John admits weakly.

    “So what, you want me to throw you about, force them out?”

    A hook catches at his stomach and yanks, almost knocking him off his feet. Yes, that’s exactly what he needs. If they were back at base, or in flight school, he’d fall to his knees with a giddy smile and ask to suck cock, or to be stepped on, and Gale would laugh and oblige. But now, there’s something coiled deep inside him, an incessant need to be contrary, to get both him and Buck to feel. To feel human again.

    “You can try, I guess,” he says eventually, his throat tight.

    Gale goes stiff and rolls his shoulders. “You want another fight?”

    “I wanna see if you still have it in you. Can you get me flat on my back? Or are you going to end up on yours?”

    Or, dirty stalag fucking.

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    30 Jun 2024

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    “What good are you over there? I want you here.”

    They’ve done this numerous times before, back in flight school. Bucky cosied up to his side in bed, the scruff on his cheek scraping over Gale’s collarbone. It only happened when the nights were cold, and Bucky was sloshed.

    Plausible deniability.

    In what Gale does now, they would be hard-pressed to find deniability of any kind. Both of them eagerly ignore that Bucky is not drunk enough, and that the woefully public nature of their surroundings in no way resembles the safety of their shared room back in Texas.

    Climbing into the cot, Gale tries to temper his rapidly beating heart. Bucky will find a way to snug close enough to plaster his ear to his chest. He will hear it, but won’t comment—skirting the line, never to cross it.

    Or, Gale is jealous of Bucky's girls.

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    30 Jun 2024