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Talk, talk, talk-
It was all everyone in camp did, but Arthur-
Arthur listened. Listened to him, a lone wolf, a "taciturn dimwit", as he'd been called more than once. The man with the broadest shoulders Charles' had ever seen, face marred by years of the life of an outlaw, looked to him every night over the fire and seemed to soften. Seemed to relax after a day's work- lord knows Arthur was one of very few who kept the entire gang from falling apart at the seams. All of his work, done day after day, he did without complaint. Without denial. It was just what needed to be done. The hunting, the skinning, the fishing, the foraging, the robbing, the stealing, the intimidating, it all had to be done and Arthur... Arthur always seemed to be the one doing it.
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Two harrowing, illness-haunted years after leaving the gang, Charles and Arthur get some welcome news. At the end of a long winter, spring comes to Ontario.
Arthur’s TB goes into remission; the fellas celebrate. Loudly, passionately, again and again and again.
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- Part 3 of a never ending kind of love
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An AU in which Davey Callander survives the gang's escape from Blackwater, and in his place Death claims the life of another gang member- or leader, rather. As the Van Der Linde Gang falls into turmoil over the sudden death of their king, and a power vacuum ensues over who will take his place, Arthur Morgan must decide once and for all who he is without the heavy-handed influence of Dutch van der Linde.
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Death’s messenger arrived in the form of the front page of The Saint Denis Times. TRAGEDY AT SEA! CARGOSHIP THE OQUENDO SUNK FIVE MILES OFF GUARMA COAST!
Or: Charles Smith, Sadie Adler, and the two deaths of Arthur Morgan.
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It doesn’t matter that his throat hurts. It doesn’t matter that he can hardly swallow. It doesn’t matter that a handful of hours ago he’d been slowly dying with a rope tight across his trachea.
What matters is the image of Charles, with the sun burning on his shoulders like a devil, face cast in shadows. What matters is the look of indignant rage that pinches Charles brow, the casual, meticulous speed in which he dispatches Arthur’s captor. What matters is the sweet, dizzying air filling his lungs, and the delirious thought that passed in his head -
I don’t know this man. -
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Just after leaving behind Valentine and long before their forced retirement to Canada, Charles tries to deal with his crush on his best friend, with mixed results.
Sean steals Arthur's journal, which causes problems for Charles of the pining variety.
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- Part 7 of a never ending kind of love
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Introduction to Cowboy Cryptopgraphy by RocksCanFly
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
16 Dec 2024
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Five signs of Arthur's affection that went straight over Charles' head, and the one that even he couldn't miss.
Or, the gang discusses Arthur's obvious crush on Charles, to John 'Grossed Out Little Brother' Marston's increasing distress.
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Like a Lily Alive by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Feb 2019
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They’d never talked about it none, not before now; had only exchanged knowing glances over quiet cups of coffee, sat a little too close together by the fire at night, thighs just barely brushing. The odd clap on the back or a hand on the knee, inconspicuous and unassuming and invisible to anyone but the two of them. Maybe a sideways glance, once, while they were pissing on the same tree back before Blackwater, when Arthur’d been a little too drunk and a little too desperate to know better.
No, they’d never talked about it, but they’d both known it in their bones, had sensed it.---
Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 1 of Kîyanaw
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Dead and Alive by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
19 Feb 2019
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He didn’t tell her, then, that he didn’t sleep much anyhow, not anymore. Didn’t tell her that if it weren’t nightmares of John’s corpse swinging from a Joshua tree, it was vague memory-dreams of hands parting his thighs to spread him open and the sick, gutless feeling of being pushed into like the slow slide of a knife through raw meat. He didn’t tell her that he weren’t much worried about rest, now. Didn’t tell her that he was already miserable.
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Dutch had raised him up right, but something about it had always felt wrong.
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- Part 3 of Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage
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No Good Man by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
03 Feb 2019
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Sometimes, in the middle of the night, he’d crawl into Arthur’s bed and just hold him, not saying anything at all, just holding him so close Arthur could hear the man’s heart, pounding angry and afraid against his breastbone. Maybe that’s when Arthur’d first known it, deep down in his twisting guts; he could never leave, even if he wanted to.
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Dutch had raised him up to be a good man, but Dutch ain't no good man.
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- Part 1 of Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage
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Only Ride in the Night by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
29 Jul 2019
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By the end of the first week, Charles had been longing for his soft, shared bed and the warm goose-down duvet that he’d selfishly gifted Arthur, back when he’d still been skinny with sickness and prone to chills. By the end of the second, his gut was aching with homesickness and he’d dreamed of strong, warm, calloused hands that overknead bread and weave through his hair like water around smooth river stones. Now, after three weeks, all Charles wants is a hug and a clean pair of socks.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 7 of Kîyanaw
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That Bad Type by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
10 Apr 2019
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It doesn’t matter none, though, because it doesn’t even seem the outlaw is listening; he’s busy using one hand to spread Arthur wide, the other guiding the barrel of the gun to gently lift Arthur’s balls where they hang, vulnerable and exposed. Arthur can feel the man’s hot, eager breath ghosting over his asshole and he groans – wants that filthy mouth on him more than he’d ever admit.
“I’m not going to hurt you,” the stranger says, and Arthur can hear the wicked devious smile in the lilt of his voice. “At least, not much, anyway.”---
Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 6 of Kîyanaw
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With My Heart So Whole by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
04 Apr 2019
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It’s still novel, this; the casual, familiar touch, whenever and however he wants, with no worry of prying eyes or gossiping lips. Charles had taken to it easy, especially once Arthur’d been well, but it’d taken Arthur longer to acclimate to their new-found solitude – privacy weren’t something he’d ever had before. The first time Charles had kissed him out in the open, he’d nearly socked the man in the jaw before he’d realize there weren’t no one around to mind what they got up to.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 5 of Kîyanaw
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This isn’t some sort of trial. Dutch has clearly made his mind up already regarding Charles joining the gang. Arthur’s opinion doesn’t matter. At least not yet.
Starts prior to Blackwater/start of game. Not strictly canon compliant.
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Five Bros, Chilling in a Lake, Five Feet Apart Cuz They're Not Gay by Adiaphory
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
28 Aug 2021
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Sun's out, gun's out.
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Arthur convinces the guys to go skinny-dipping and it doesn't go well.
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- Part 3 of Arthur's Back On His Bullshit
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Summer in the City by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Mar 2019
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Charles himself is stretched out shirtless on the big bed, his hair spread like a dark halo around his head when Arthur returns; he’s reading a little yellow book pulled from Arthur’s bag and he doesn’t look up when Arthur enters, so Arthur takes the opportunity to linger by the door for a moment, observing. Takes a minute to admire the hard swell of Charles’s biceps, the way he’s a little soft through the middle but thick and muscular underneath it all. How his brow furrows as he tucks a strand of long, dark hair behind his ear, and how he licks his thumb before he turns the page.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 4 of Kîyanaw
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Tough Lovers, Hood Brothers by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
11 Mar 2019
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Later, he’s washing up before dinner in the little tub behind the cook wagon, at the frustrated behest of Mrs Grimshaw – “Arthur, how are we even to know it’s you under all that filth?” – when he catches Charles watching him. Not leering, just watching in the quiet, placid way Charles seems to watch things, the same way Arthur does when he draws; just observing, committing things to memory.
When their eyes meet, Charles’s lips turn up at the corners, the slightest intimation of a smile, and he winks, the cocky bastard. Months ago when they’d met and Arthur had seen something spark in those kind eyes, he’d never imagined Charles would be so cruel as to tease him this way. Could never have imagined anything so relentlessly good as that.---
Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 3 of Kîyanaw
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A Pillar, Upright by Sad Cowboy Malone (NobleMalone)
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
05 Mar 2019
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Charles has loved these moments, the past few weeks they’ve been able to share them; the moments when Arthur forgets himself and the man he thinks he is, let’s Charles treat him good the way he knows Arthur is. He doesn’t mind breaking him down a little, first, teasing and taunting him into submission just to get Arthur to receive the love he’s given.
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Kîyanaw – Us, inclusive; you and me.
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- Part 2 of Kîyanaw
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heaven knows (i wanna break you apart) by RocksCanFly
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
17 Jan 2025
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Everyone makes stupid choices in their twenties. For Charles Smith, letting their gang’s enforcer/Dutch’s favored son/his crush of six months take him to bed would top that list.
Knowing that doesn’t actually help him against Arthur Morgan’s lake-blue eyes or hungry, coyote smile.
Charles saves a friend, gets his cherry popped, and catches feelings (in that order).
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Charles finishes burying Arthur and runs into an old friend. Drunk and grieving, they make an stupid decision.
The inaugural meeting of the Widowed Outlaw Society (Invitation Only)