17 Works by cold_shadows
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Foggy had mopped. Mopped and scrubbed and cursed so loudly he was almost shouting, but Matt hadn’t woken up. And that was what had worried Foggy the most, because Matt was the lightest sleeper in the history of anyone who had ever slept. Water dripping rooms away would wake him up.
Of course, it might have something to do with the fact that Matt currently had over 50 stitches in his body, in various places, and had lost nearly all the blood in his body. Yeah. That might be why he wasn’t waking up.Series
- Part 1 of hold your tongue and let me love
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Because Gawain could admire conviction, Foggy thought, could admire the tenacity it took to stick with your morals. Because Foggy privately believed, a little too fiercely, that Gawain himself would love Matt as Foggy did. Matt was the kind of person that would be equally at home in Arthur’s court than he was in modern day; he seemed to live by the same tenets and virtues and beliefs they did.
Or, at least, he was just as flawed and messy as Arthur’s knights were. Foggy forgot, foolishly and naively, that Arthur died stabbed through by his own blood, betrayed by his best friend and his wife both.
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- Part 2 of hold your tongue and let me love
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A rumination on one Matthew Michael Murdock.
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- Part 1 of Just Go Easy On Me, Baby
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Quiet and creaking and worse for it, in some ways, because his ears, always straining for the next skreeee of a demogorgon, catch on every sound. He can’t get enough rest, enough sleep, enough time without the constant pounding in his head. He can still feel the girl in his mind, the flash of his mother and the call of her voice still stuck with him even though he feels a million miles away from California.
But he’s breathing. He’s breathing and breathing and breathing.
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It's Always Colder on Your Own by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
09 Jan 2022
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The apartment is empty. It’s almost always empty. Peter doesn’t come home. Peter hasn’t been home in days and hours and seconds. The place he sleeps now is simply four walls and a roof; a bedroom and a kitchen and a bathroom and an entry hall that creaks too loudly even when the outside won’t shut up because it’s New York and it never shuts up.
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The surviving Eternals retreat to Ajak's house to regroup and take stock. Druig is trying to deal with all his new bruises courtesy of Ikaris, and Makkari is just worried about Druig.
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- Part 3 of the Lost Myth of True Love
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He Sang Nursery Rhymes to Paralyze by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Black Widow (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
05 Dec 2021
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Natalia is eight and they are telling her she is going.
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Only a Lifetime by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Eternals (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Dec 2021
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Druig’s life had been long. In the span of all thirteen billion years, seven thousand was comparably very small, but it felt long to him. He felt old sometimes, in the way humans did, worn down and beaten out. The weight of their lives—of their pain, their joy, the very ache of their minds—pressed on him constantly. He could feel them as they screamed out for their gods, for their loved ones. Every single life on Earth.
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- Part 2 of the Lost Myth of True Love
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Oh, What Am I Supposed to Do (Without You)? by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Eternals (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Dec 2021
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But the others did not know him as Makkari did, and so as he had murmured her name over the sentries—my beautiful, beautiful Makkari—as she could feel his chest and throat vibrating with the words, as his hands (ever so graceful, ever so precise) signed her name sign, she began to think of him as hers, too. But she had never told him. And maybe if she had, things would not have turned out this way.
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- Part 1 of the Lost Myth of True Love
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Oh, What Am I Supposed to Do (Without You)? by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Eternals (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Dec 2021
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But the others did not know him as Makkari did, and so as he had murmured her name over the centuries—my beautiful, beautiful Makkari—as she could feel his chest and throat vibrating with the words, as his hands (ever so graceful, ever so precise) signed her name sign, she began to think of him as hers, too. But she had never told him. And maybe if she had, things would not have turned out this way.
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Steve gasps again and wipes the water out of his eyes, flicking his hair so that it’s no longer in his face. He blinks once and then stills, because the man is really close. They’re body to body, nearly sharing air, and chills crawl up Steve’s spine because he can feel the scales. On his tail.
This close, he can also see the details of the man’s face, and realizes that the gashes in the man’s neck are really actually gills. The scales, dimly glinting in the moonlight, spread over the man’s cheekbones, down his jaw, and around his temples. They trail off around his neck. His hair falls wetly against his collarbone and down his chest, which is—Steve must admit—a very nice chest. Steve can feel the webbing between the man’s fingers against the skin of his elbows, wafer-thin and delicate.
Or the mermaid!AU for mermay that no one asked for.
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John Wick AU where Bellamy is a retired assassin whose wife has just died. Now, Cage Wallace has decided to muck up his life by stealing his car and screwing with his dog, so Bellamy really has only one choice now: hunt the fucker down and kill him. Amidst a sweeping world of crime, Bellamy must navigate a complicated life he tried to leave behind, love for people he shouldn't have, and the entire Wallace crime family out to get him.
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Maybe I'm Just Too Young (to Keep Good Love from Going Wrong) by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2021
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Steve choked on Billy’s secrets sometimes, when Billy showed up at 2 am, battered and hurt and looking like he just lost a fight against a grizzly. Those were the times when Steve had so many words and yet none at all, when he felt like he would suffocate on the lack of his reassurances. Billy never asked for them.
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- Part 3 of Lover, You Should've Come Over
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“Well, they must’ve got the body from somewhere.”
Chills run over Steve’s shoulders and he wonders if Billy is right. He didn’t know how Hopper could tell that it wasn’t Will’s body, just that one day they were holding a funeral, and then next, Nancy was pointing a gun at him and Christmas lights were flashing and then there was a Demogorgon jumping out of the walls.
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- Part 2 of Lover, You Should've Come Over
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My Body Yearns (and Turns for a Sleep that Won't Ever Come) by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2021
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Billy raised a belligerent eyebrow. “So, Harrington? You got me alone.”
It was obviously supposed to be a dig couched in flirty words. That was Billy’s main modus operandi when it came to Steve—flirtatious come-ons said so aggressively that they sounded like insults.
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- Part 1 of Lover, You Should've Come Over
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If the Lord Don't Forgive Me by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (TV), Outlander & Related Fandoms
10 Oct 2020
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Jamie has some thoughts about his wife.
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Like Sleep to the Freezing by cold_shadows
Fandoms: Crescent City Series - Sarah J. Maas
29 Jul 2020
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But the broken truth was that Danika had died right here in the apartment, after shredding the entirety of her pack and turning on herself. The broken truth was that the apartment was no safer than the outside world, that Danika had no safe harbor, no haven, no home. All she had was her burning determination to stand between the few innocents of the world and the slavering jaws of Micah’s greed.
It was not enough.
Time travel AU featuring Bryce going back in time to fix Danika's death.