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Something Secret Steers Us by benignmilitancy
Fandom: Half-Life, Half-Life (Video Games)
07 Jan 2026
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29 Dec 2025
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"Gordon isn't here because he's three halls down, hooked up to every machine we can think of just to keep him breathing. They're too scared to even touch him right now. You know why? Because he has so many concussions that his skull started leaking into his brain. Because we pushed him until he broke. That's why you didn't see him out there." Two-shot.
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- Part 1 of Something Secret Steers Us
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29 Dec 2025
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05 Dec 2025
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Barney first seems rather content laying back and waiting for what's to come, but as seconds pass and no relief comes, he sits up.
“...Everything alright?” He raises a brow, and Gordon sits back on his heels with an expression far too annoyed for what they’re up to.
“...I can’t figure out how to undo your pants,” he grumbles, and Barney finds himself pursing his lips to keep from laughing at the extraordinarily little problem.
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12 Nov 2025
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In City 17, history is a fairytale- rewritten, erased, and rinsed from memory with every glass of water the regime provides. You were born just before the suppression field rose, too late to remember freedom, too early to stop longing for what you never got the chance to have.
Now you work in the Records Adjustment Bureau, shredding forbidden fragments of the past- documents, photos, names, etc... It’s easier than factory shifts or street patrol, but every day feels a little death.
Still, you listen.
You offer comfort, conversation, silence, anything. Not as an official “side-hustle”, of course. The regime would never officially approve of most of the things you get up to in your little apartment-room. But for a few extra rations- you lend an ear… And for such a small price in return for the feeling of being human again- people come to you.
It was survival. It was routine. It was repentance. It was a regularity.
Enter: CP Officer Calhoun.
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29 Oct 2025
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"I can't bear it if you disappear again, Gordon."
Half-Life 2: Episode TwoSeries
- Part 3 of There's no distance between us [ENG]
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19 Oct 2025
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16 Aug 2025
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The scattered fragments of an ancient Cainite mystery are being gathered by a mysterious cabal of elders who call themselves the Manus Nigram—the Black Hand.
But by a twist of fate, a few of those fragments escape their grasp, and instead fall into the hands of an eccentric Ventrue archaeologist, Dr. Charles Hewitt, who calls upon the sage advice of a fellow lover of antiquities: Etienne de Vaillant, Pontifex of Spirits for House and Clan Tremere. Together with Dr. Hewitt’s mortal grad assistants, and the aid of a select and widely diverse coterie of Kindred allies, they race against time to solve an ancient riddle—and even more importantly—prevent those valuable artifacts from falling into the wrong hands.
Because in those artifacts lies the key to unlocking one of the greatest horrors in Cainite legend… or the power to destroy it forever.
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- Part 2 of Baltimore by Night
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16 Aug 2025
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a theoretical physicist and his best friend, a hivemind of dozens of security guards with the same face and voice
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30 May 2025
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The day RED Sniper spared an injured BLU Scout, he noticed that something about this guy was suspiciously off. In fact, he had long ago begun to notice: there was *something* off about everything around here.
Or in other words, how does it feel to find out that all this time the people you and your friends fought... Were your clones?
Who the RED and the BLU actually were? What other horrors were hidden from mere mercenaries? And what was wrong with the *faces*? Scout and Sniper from the opposing teams secretly bond together to find this out.
Welcome to a story of forbidden friendship, conspiracy, and existential dread!
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25 May 2025
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Barney Calhoun, member of the resistance, Civil Protection infiltrator
As seen through the eyes of a Citizen who lives across from his apartment, in a series of vignettes
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- Part 1 of Through The Eyes
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24 May 2025
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A little rewrite of a scene in Episode 1 so as to have a Gordon/Barney kiss. Barney peeks through the door to see two people he thought were dead, and thinks he should give his blessing for them to get together. Gordon has other plans.
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17 May 2025
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As the thought experiment goes: If three Resistance fighters get it on in a cabin in the forest, but no one is around to hear them, do they make a sound?
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13 May 2025
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Rochelle, Ellis, Coach, and Nick arrive AFTER the Vannah Hotel burns, and without the helicopter and graffiti to guide them they take a different path on their search for rescue. The apocalypse brought them together, and it may just tear them apart again... or, to pieces.
Character development and plot-heavy, Blind Man's Bluff has a primary focus on the Nick/Ellis pairing while spanning the full breadth of an alternate campaign route.
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30 Mar 2025
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This will be a collection of casual stories from Black Mesa from before the Cascade in an approximately chronological order. Some romantic, some nsfw, some neither of those. Just dudes being dudes, living their normal little life.
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15 Mar 2025
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For years, Barney's suffered a slow, silent drowning. He concedes ownership of his body and mind to the mask, leaving him with only complicity. The end result is he can't bear being perceived, least of all by himself. The briefest of glances feel like blistering accusations.
Just when he begins to entertain thoughts of dissent, he meets someone who refuses to look away.
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04 Mar 2025
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"The reason Gordon was lying on his bed in his room at White Forest, curled up into himself, and with his eyes streaming water, was because he had been punched in the stomach. It had nothing to do with the fact that it had been Alyx who had thrown the punch."
Gordon finally decides to tell Alyx he likes her...but in the most awkward-middle-school way possible. Come for the awkward nerds in love, stay to see Barney improv Shakespeare!
Not my best, and the characters are a little OOC, but it's cute. Finally putting this on here after it's been on FFN for years.
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28 Feb 2025
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They both tried not to let that one time mean anything. They tried to completely forget. But you can't, of course, unknow something, and a taste of honey is worse than none at all. I finally finished it! The sequel to Cabin In The Woods.
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20 Feb 2025
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Taking shelter from a thunderstorm, Gordon and Alyx find themselves stuck in a conveniently-located cabin. Gordon knows what's supposed to happen...and he can't afford to let it. I can't believe I forgot to upload this to AO3!
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21 Feb 2025
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He pondered whether or not he should give in, one more time. Maybe, he did not hear quite right what Scout had said. Maybe it was all a dream and he could hide behind that gray area again and deal with the consequences later. His future self would handle it, surely.
“Mick...” his name had always sounded surreal in Scout’s voice, “Kiss me again?” Sniper heard him plea just before surrendering to it.
I don’t deserve this.
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20 Feb 2025