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   'Tis The Damn Season by Lolo (TheLittleLo)

   Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   05 Apr 2026

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   • Harkness/Stebbins (The Long Walk)
   • Stebbins (The Long Walk)
   • Harkness (The Long Walk)
   • Ray Garraty
   • Gary Barkovitch
   • Rank (The Long Walk)
   • Curley (The Long Walk)
   • Collie Parker
   • Jan (The Long Walk)
   • Peter McVries
   • Art Baker
   • Hank Olson
   • The Major (The Long Walk)
   • Ginnie Garraty
   • William Garraty
   • Clementine Olson | Cathy Scramm
   • Pearson (The Long Walk)
   • Tressler (The Long Walk)
   • best friend's cousin
   • is that a trope?
   • Slow Burn
   • or like medium burn
   • it does take literal years though so maybe that's slow enough lol
   • Long-Distance Relationship
   • college student harkness
   • book editor harkness
   • mechanic stebbins
   • Harkness falls first but Stebbins falls harder
   • Alternate Universe - No Walk (The Long Walk)
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • this mostly takes place over the course of a series of christmas breaks
   • but i wouldn’t exactly call it a christmas fic
   • Disordered Eating
   • body checking
   • Author uses lots of em dash but does not use ai EVER
   • ai can tear em dashes from my cold dead hands
   • no beta we die like... basically everyone
   • no one is dying here!! lol
   • Stebbins Pov
   • mostly - Freeform
   • there will be a few cut aways later on in the fic but it’s like 90 percent Stebbins
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Because you can't tell me that
   • Billy "I joined an optional death march to get my dad to notice me" Stebbins
   • is going to have the best grip on what's best for him
   • at least not until he has gone through the ringer first
   • luckily the "ringer" in this au is just years of daddy issues and poor self worth
   • Not... ya know... death
   • likewise Richard "I walked on a broken ankle for 12 hours" Harkness
   • is more than determined enough to wait out Stebbins while he takes forever to get his shit together
   • discussions of eating disorders and body dysmorphia
   • mental health
   • Discussions of Suicide
   • Anal Sex
   • Rimming
   • Anal Fingering
   • Mutual Masturbation
   • Hand Jobs
   • Blow Jobs
   • Marking
   • Billy has an oral fixation I don't make the rules
   • eventual angst
   • with a happy ending
   • Orgasm Edging
   • Cock Warming
   • Face-Fucking
   • both characters top
   • Background Relationships
   • pete/ray
   • rank/curley
   • collie/art
   • hank/clementine/jan

   Summary

   Dear Stephen King, please forgive my transgressions for not setting this in Maine.

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   Billy Stebbins never left the small town he grew up in. He works at the garage his father owns, lives with his mom, step-father and two brothers, and has never really thought about life outside his town.

   When his best friend Ray Garraty's cousin Richard Harkness comes to visit for winter break, Billy and Richard begin to slowly realize they might like each other as more than just acquaintances that see each other once a year for two weeks.

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