thecommonplaceofexistence
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Fever by thecommonplaceofexistence
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 Nov 2017
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John returns from his holiday to find Sherlock in less than perfect condition. Nothing gets easier, and both men are tested in their attempts to keep each other going.
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“We’re alive, Ray,” Pete asserted, brown, weary eyes locked with Ray’s. “We’re fuckin’ alive. God, I’ve never felt more alive than right now. Feel this, mm?”
Peter clutched Ray’s hand and planted it on his scarred chest, a little to the left, right on his heart. Ray could feel it, felt it dancing and kicking, like it wanted to get out, share blood with the arteries that perfused the hand on top of it. It was alive, McVries was alive.
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Highway Hypnosis by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
25 Oct 2025
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Ray can't hear anything anymore other than Pete. The intermittent jolt of warnings, the sobs, feet and wheels against pavement, all of it is crowded out by Pete's voice and hands.
“Being all pent up does strange things to a man’s head," Pete says.
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Obligatory Pete asks Ray if he can jerk him off fic. -
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It’s been a month. A month since he left the hospital. Which means it’s been two months since...since the end. Or the beginning maybe? Two months since the rain and the crowd and the pain. Two months since he’d spoken to the boy he loved. And now he's stood outside his door, not sure what to do.
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- Part 1 of Ray was Pete's Wish
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Cinnamon and Charcoal, Almond and Cedarwood by WillieTheNerd
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
11 Nov 2025
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Two boys walk toward death and find love instead.
Between the miles and the rain, Ray Garraty learns that Pete McVries tastes like cinnamon, almond, and survival—and Pete learns that love can still bloom, even on the road to dying.Only one keeps walking.
The other lets the rain take him home.But that isn't the end, no. Just the beginning of a love story unfolding.
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- Part 1 of We Who Walked the Line
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my achilles always bent and bruised by newlydead
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
01 Dec 2025
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Ray had sworn he'd been a dead man. His ticket had gotten punched. Three warnings to forty-seven, and he was more than sure that he'd die. He was ready to give it all up for Pete. He trusted him with his idea in taking out the Major. And when Pete was ready to give his own life up to make sure Ray's idea happened, he knew he had to do the same.
He falls unconscious due to his gun shot wounds, believing that he has succumbed to his injuries. Despite that, Ray finds himself waking in an unfamiliar room and a hazy memory of what had happened once the Walk had ended. The only thing he's sure of? He loves Pete - that wouldn't change. But there was no reason he should be alive, not if Pete was the winner.
Not until he finds out that Pete's one wish was his life.