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if that isn’t love, it’ll have to do by phlegmatic
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
10 Aug 2025
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“You’ll manage, Bucky,” Gale says before he can think better of it, and when John looks up at him with eyes wet and glistening, he wishes he could take it back. Maybe not just the cold, then.
“I’ll manage?” He sounds level at least, hot drunk but no different to normal. A little edge, a little rasp.
“Without ‘im. I know it’ll be—But you’ll manage.” John’s answering scoff has a meanness in it, and he does look down again, but thankfully he doesn’t stop walking.
“I’ll manage. Yeah, I’ll manage. I’ll manage without him, because I managed before, that right?”
“That’s right.” Gale’s murmuring again, and you don’t grow up in Wyoming without learning how to soothe a horse, and somehow that’s the voice he’s using right now. Tempted, even, to soothe like he would a horse: hand rubbed broad along John’s flank, cupping his neck like he’d cupped Gale in the pub, rubbing solid and firm. Might quiet those jitters, still jittering even though John’s trudging along with his sight on the ground, trying to sniff away his wet eyes.
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In the aftermath of Curtis' death, Bucky struggles to grieve. Gale struggles to help him.
Finding each other, in four parts.Bookmarked by c0smiclovers
16 Jan 2026
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"Got an important question to ask you," Bucky says. Gale tenses a little, but Bucky just holds out an open palm, face up.
"Chicken," he states, then lays out his other hand, "or egg? Which came first?"
The tension evaporates, replaced with an odd sense of disappointment. Gale shifts to push Bucky's hands away. "Whatever machine they use to evaporate those eggs came first."
-- a time loop fic
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14 Jan 2026
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Bucky pauses, mug raised halfway to his mouth. “You’re not waiting for marriage, are you?”
Gale snaps his mouth shut, looking away. “It’s proper, John,” he tells him under his breath.
“Oh my god,” Bucky says and he really has no business looking so shocked. “But you have- You’ve done it before, right?” He leans forward, eyes wide and bright.
Gale clenches his jaw, the embarrassment curling in his stomach.
Bucky’s mouth falls open. “Saint Gale Cleven,” he drawls, shaking his head. “She slapping your fingers black and blue every time you meet up?” He asks.
OR it takes Gale 7 years to figure out that he loves him
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03 Jan 2026
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There were cracks in his father. John wondered if he would splinter from the intricacies of life someday, too.
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31 Dec 2025
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Gale Cleven rolls the dice. He was born and raised to it.
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- Part 6 of second string
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27 Dec 2025