8 Works in Staff Sergeant McKinnon (Boots TV)
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tell me all the ways (to stay away) by paperclipsentimental
Fandoms: Boots (TV), Boots (Netflix)
09 Nov 2025
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You say, “get out of here, Recruit,” as mean as you can, as unfriendly as you can make it. The kind of voice that makes other recruits just about piss their pants.
Cope just looks at you, all the way from the door. A tin cup between his hands. In five small, carefully balanced steps, he crosses the room to you. He puts the cup down on the desk, beside your left wrist. “Dismissed, Cope,” you say through your teeth. He turns silently on his heel and leaves. He leaves the door open, so you can hear them cheering for him.
Someone jokes that he’s survived the dragons den, and you wonder if they know.
After a moment, you pick up the cup. It’s half full of whiskey, strong as a memory. Out there, the recruits start singing Bohemian Rhapsody, and you are elsewhere, remembering Maitra’s eyes that day when he’d called Wilkinson a faggot. The way he’d looked at you, your hands still over the pieces of your disassembled rifle, a song still on your lips, and he’d known—or, you’d known that he suspected.
You put your lips to the edge of the cup, imagining Copes mouth on the metal, and sip slowly, like it’s something else you’re tasting.
Again, you are wanting something you don’t deserve to have.
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The Joint Integration Boot Camp brought together the best — Marines, Navy, Space Force, Air Force — and expected them to act as one.
Slovacek thought he’d seen every kind of recruit until Elsie Lane walked in: a helicopter pilot trainee with too much talent, too much sarcasm, and an unnerving ability to make him forget the mission.She flies like chaos. He moves like order.
And somewhere between the drills, the desert heat, and the endless simulations, something real starts to take off.
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Mama, I’m in love with a criminal by PsychoHockstetter
Fandoms: Boots (Netflix), Boots (TV)
06 Nov 2025
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If someone had told Nicholas Slovacek that he would fall in love with an ex ballerina during boot camp, he might’ve punched them in the face then spit on them after. But here he is.
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Drabble humor to call out a goof in the show script. (aka, just a silly glimpse into the drill instructors' banter after the family dinner.)
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- Part 2 of Warriors and Lovers
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Staff Sergeant McKinnon senses anxiety before he catches the confused expression on Sergeant Sullivan’s face. He realizes two things at the same time: Sullivan had never looked that confused in the 13 weeks they’d known each other, and Sullivan probably had no experience with kids. Well, little kids.
“He wants you to pick him up. I’d say it’s your choice, but he inherited stubborn from both sides.” McKinnon smiles and turns to scrape burger gunk off the grill.
Sullivan looks down at the toddler clutching his knee with one hand and a toy in the other, staring up at him with curiosity and impatience. This was not how he expected the day to go, not even close.Series
- Part 1 of Warriors and Lovers
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If Anyone Could have Saved me, it Would've been You by Acefirstbase
Fandoms: Boots (TV), Boots (Netflix)
01 Nov 2025
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Leslie Bliss Rogers signed up to be a marine mostly for the free haircut, and because he believed that if he just kept running he couldn't get hurt anymore. But that isn't true, because his life is a curse. But maybe his bunkmate Slovacek could bring his spirits up, or maybe he would just be better off dead.
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Gay Men in boot camp. Didn’t even think that was possible honestly. Cope didn’t even think other gays in boot camp were POSSIBLE he didn’t even think there were other guys this HOT in bootcamp. Him and his best friend join to find meaning in life. Clearly they find way more then that
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basically just copes fat crush on jones -
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The recruits mourn openly. The drill sergeants grieve in silence, burdened with loss, guilt, and the weight of leadership. A character study of McKinnon, Sullivan, and Hewitt facing the death of one of their recruits.