William's Gift

A the smoke room fanfic for a change william adler was a lot of things in life. a sheriff, a detective. a pragmatist, a cynic. a native, trying to make himself useful to the colonizers.

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Part XIII - His Curse on the Fairest Joys

Kane's taillights vanished slowly down the long gravel road. More slowly than they needed to. Possible, Will supposed, that he'd been a little more emphatic than needed explaining about the steepness of the way up here. Also possible that Dunbar was...

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Part VI - These Waters That Reflect No Stars

Will reached his and Sam's room to find Leo's jeans, shirt, and boxers folded on the floor at the foot of the bed. The wolf himself was naked, on his knees, beside them. "Uh," Leo began nervously, "you didn't say whether I was to kneel, sir,...

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Sam x Will thingie

william adler." sam whimpered. it had been two weeks since he felt that scared. he felt like he could die at any moment, and a part of him wanted that to happen.

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Part XV - Of All of the Boys Who Were Schoolmates Then There are Only You and I

Someone witnessing events, invisible but ever present, from the outside, might have been forgiven for thinking that being fully and officially Will's hadn't changed Leo's life all that much. Like a newlywed after the honeymoon, the return to ordinary...

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Part XIV - Pity's Long-Broken Urn

The desert smelled so familiar. He didn't remember much of El Salvador. A few images of the rooms of a house, but even those he couldn't be sure if they were memories of real things, or memories of imagining what memories of real things might have...

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Part IV - All and Then Most of You, Some and Now None of You

"You keep any kind of exercise routine?" "Uh, no sir. I used to be on the football team in high school, but the last few years..." "The breakup again?" "...yessir." Will gave him the kind of look you would give someone who said they'd blown all...

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Part I - He Gave to Mis'ry All He Had

"well, i hear keith," kane didn't even bother pretending to look at the id he'd been handed, for all he knew it could have said 'william adler, president of space balloonland,' "finally broke up with that big creepy methed-out man-child everyone's been telling

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Part XVII - They Can’t Sell That House So Empty It Stays

Sam dropped them both off at the rest stop closest to where route 93 turned off the interstate. According to Chase this 'shoot' came with a van better equipped to handle potholes and washout, they'd ride out in that. "Which," Sam grumbled, "is fine by...

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Part IX - As I Would Save a Stranger in the Street

All the ride home, Leo had been idly running his thumb, in small circles, over the tiny padlock on his chest. Will and Sam had laid in eachother's arms, apparently very satisfied with an afternoon's work. Leo sat on the floor, cross-legged, since he'd...

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Part VIII - The Heart is Just a Muscle

God knew where his shirt had been all day, but he wrestled off his jeans and boxers the second the door shut behind him. "Get your slave ass in here," Sam's growl drifted from the living room, "now." Leo scrambled. If nothing else, Sam clearly knew...

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Extra - We Can Be Like They Are

"Well, I guess I feel kinda complicated bout it all." Todd's sigh had all the world-weariness of a tribulated martyr. "I don't guess, at least not no more, it's no Satan worship or nothin, and it aint as if I aint done more'n enough to drive a wedge'r...

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