touch-starved

In a world where soulmates exist, it is possible to have two names printed on your wrist at birth. One will be your soulmate. The other, your enemy. There is no way to tell the difference or, if you only have one, which it is. Little Harry Potter dreams of the day he will finally meet his soulmate, someone who will actually love and want him. But as he grows up, he realizes that nothing is that simple. Especially not soulmates. Especially not his.Long, Multi-Chartered, Alternate Epilogue now added 9.10.18

“If you wanted, you could share the bed again,” Steve said, still studiously looking at the wall directly in front of him. “We used to do it all the time, before. It isn’t weird. Not for me, anyway.” Whatever Bucky had been expecting, that hadn’t been it. “Oh,” he said. “I’m gonna go brush my teeth,” Steve said, and disappeared down the hallway.

Lieutenant Steve Rogers has done all the right things. Graduated West Point at the top of his class. Earned a coveted spot as an infantry officer. Found the woman of his dreams. Everything is going exactly as planned. That is, until he accepts a platoon leader position for a unit deploying to Iraq, where he’s reunited with the ex-boyfriend he’d rather forget but never could. ——— Sergeant First Class Barnes thinks he knows war. He lives in a wild cycle of military training, deployments, sex, drinking, and pining for his former best friend and ex-boyfriend, Steve Rogers. But when Lieutenant Rogers is assigned as his platoon leader during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Barnes realizes that he doesn't know the first thing about what it means to truly fight for something. ——— An Iraq War love story in three movements. Or: The story of two men who go to war and don’t quite come back home. ——— Please read the tags and warnings.

'When Hinata woke in the evening, he half expected to see the wild man mysteriously gone, as though he'd never been there in the first place. But instead, there he lay, fast asleep. Shafts of deep golden sunlight fell across the man's sleeping form, and Hinata stared at him, transfixed. He had long, dark lashes and a finely shaped, straight nose, and low cheekbones with a proud jawline, all of which started to fill out some sort of stereotypical profile for a rugged jungle king. If ever there had been someone created to survive the unforgiving landscape of the jungle, it was him.' -- The rainforest expedition is to last a full year—365 days of living under the lush canopy of trees. Danger looms. Adventure awaits. The jungle calls. Hinata Shouyou has never wanted anything more. Or so he thinks, until he meets a curious stranger there, who shows him what it means to be truly needed. [words by Esselle, art by reallycorking.]

Tony glances shyly at Steve through his eyelashes. Steve’s looking back at him, steady and curious. His eyes are blue, like the sky, and he doesn’t look shy at all. ‘I’m Steve,’ he says. ‘You should sit here.’ Then he goes back to carefully organising his pencils. He has lots of colours. Or: The Avengers start school together and it goes about as smoothly as you'd expect.

Stopping at the first inn the party reaches after leaving Dormont, Siffrin and Isabeau take some time to figure out their relationship with each other.

He leaned down in the bushes, trying to catch some fresh air. His head wouldn’t stop spinning. The soft crack of a stick nearby. Someone leaning down in front of him. “Samuels? You alright?” or Cady and Regina are lying manipulators. Aaron meets someone who’s not.