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two young savage things, barely worth remembering by helloitsbees
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
22 Mar 2025
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Benson works his hand over his own face, fingers shaking as they smooth his mustache down. “I– if you get in that car, it’s– we’ll have to keep running,” he says hoarsely. “They’re gonna keep looking for me.”
“For us.” Randy nods, his heart in his throat. He doesn’t think he’s ever felt the wind so keenly against his skin, doesn’t think the wet pavement has ever smelled so sweet, doesn’t think Benson’s eyes have ever been so blue. Everything feels electric, like the air before a thunderstorm. “I know. I don’t care. I don’t want to stay in this town any longer, anyway.”
“You mean it?”
“Yeah.” He’s never meant anything before, he thinks. He means this.
Benson starts to smile, then, wild and sharp. “Alright. Let’s get out of here.”
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They leave together. They get ten months, two weeks, and four days.Bookmarked by kyrxh
10 Apr 2026
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The woman at the school’s reception desk flat out refused to give them anything about Miss Beard, her hands laid on the countertop as she shook her head sadly. Big, plump bottom lip jutting out in what Benson might have known to be real sympathy if he had ever been presented with the emotion in a sincere way. Which he hadn’t. At least, that’s what he imagined, anyway. When she had removed her palms from the counter, the ledger beneath them had become stuck to one, slick with a nervous sweat that she hid all too well in the calm, collected way she had informed the boy she simply couldn’t give that sort of information away.
The page was left greasy and she pointedly did not look at it.
“And Mr. Bradley, I really think you’re doing the right thing. Good for you.” She had said, like she was his fucking grandmother.
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They don't make it to Miss Beard's place. Mr Sheppard lies in a pool of his own blood and Benson & Randy drive on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
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- Part 1 of I am stuck in a dream
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08 Apr 2026
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Further West than Walked the Pioneers by HauntedHotline
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
26 Mar 2026
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He wasn’t sure if it was the heat, ever present and reaching a fever pitch without the weak, ancient AC droning on its lowest setting to save electricity costs, the sudden darkness covering both of them in pitch and only marginally combated with the flashlight, mostly veiling his face, or the storm brewing around them that had Benson’s jaw so loose and languid.
He felt like an overworked dog. Panting and huffing with its tongue lolling out of its maw, saliva dripping.
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Benson and Randy have their first real conversation under slightly less pressing circumstances.
Bookmarked by kyrxh
08 Apr 2026
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“Said you don’t smoke, but you’re always watchin’ me. Wanna try?”
Randy lends himself to being fixed in a way that helps heal Benson, too.
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02 Apr 2026
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A few minutes can make all the difference.
Benson wasn’t sure what it was. Maybe he spent a little too long on his cigarette, or maybe he took his sweet time loading up his shotgun, but nothing was going the way he planned.
Now it was just him and his fucking pathetic, moldy burger eating, tear soaked, blue-eyed coworker.
All Benson had to do was pull the trigger. His whole life had built up to this moment, and he was fucking hesitating.
Bradley was ruining everything.
Bookmarked by kyrxh
31 Mar 2026