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    After years of fighting in a war, all Lance wants to do is kick back and actually enjoy his twenties, a goal made easier when he inherits a house of his own soon after returning to Earth. The problem now is that he's realizing how empty it is with only one person living in such a large space, and what better way to solve that than by inviting the only other ex-paladin living on his own to move into the spare bedroom? It's a win-win; Lance gets the company he's been sorely missing and Keith saves a small fortune on rent.

    And so what if they don't quite act like your typical roommates? Whose business is that but their own?

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    Alternatively: post-canon + idiots in love + "and they were roommates"

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    29 Apr 2025

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    “How about a bet?”
    Keith paused.
    “If I can make you fall in love with the holidays by Christmas night, you’ll take the shift.”
    Keith snorted, turning to face Lance. He kept that vaguely annoyed smile on his face, but nothing could hide the gleam of interest in his eyes.
    “You’re not going to make that happen.”
    “Okay,” Lance shrugged. “Then what’s the harm of taking the bet?”
    Keith’s eyes rose to the ceiling, thinking.
    “And,” Lance rushed in, “and I’ll sweeten the deal. I’ll work New Years as well.”
    Now that got Keith’s attention.
    They had drawn straws for who would work New Years Day weeks ago. It was one of the worst shifts for a toy store. Being deathly hungover while listening to kids scream and toys screech was the stuff of nightmares. Keith had lost and was stuck with the shift.
    A slow grin tugged at Keith’s lips. “You’re insane.”

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    When Lance gets stuck with the Christmas shift, he immediately turns to Keith, a self-proclaimed Scrooge, to cover the shift. When Keith refuses, Lance offers up a bet. If he can make Keith fall in love with the holidays before Christmas, Keith will take the shift. Nonsense straight from a Hallmark movie follows.

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    28 Dec 2024

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    “Wait, wait,” Lance stood up. “You are driving to Houston.”
    “Yes.”
    “A drive that’s over thirty hours.”
    “Yup.”
    “By yourself.”
    “Sure seems like it.”
    “To clean out a storage container of your dead mother, that you have never met, that is now legally under your name.”
    “Correct.”
    Lance wondered if Keith had lost his mind.
    “Keith, there could be dead bodies in that storage container!” He argued. “Or a meth lab. Or worse, mannequins dressed up like dolls sat at a tea party or some weird shit like that.”
    Keith offered him an unimpressed blink. “I’ll be fine.”
    “Keith, this is insane. You can’t go by yourself!”
    Keith glanced at him as he shouldered his backpack.
    “Come with me then.”
    And that small, damned smirk tilted Keith’s lips as he held Lance’s gaze.
    “What do you think, Lance?” He asked. “2,251 miles. Think you could handle it?”
    Lance stopped short.
    Contemplated.
    And, well. Lance had nothing to do either.
    So. That’s how this all started.

    Two disasters drive cross-country to clean out a storage container that may have dead bodies hidden inside and, hey, maybe a bit of love as well.

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    16 Dec 2024

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    Keith was adopted into wealth. Lance was born into it. When they meet, Keith decides to teach the rich boy a few things about the real world, only to end up learning a few things himself.

    With both of them having homophobic parents, they struggle to build what starts out a purely sexual relationship, while under the judgmental eyes of their families.
    (Ongoing: last updated 1/9/24)
    One chapter left.

    (Explicit Warning: Language, Smut, Alcohol use, Drug use, past trauma, PTSD, implied child abuse) This story is in no way trying to promote any of these things.

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    27 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 37

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    “Do you want to talk about what you saw?”

    Keith snapped to attention at that. “You know?” He asked, disbelief in his voice. Lance must have mistaken it for wariness.

    “Not the details, just that-” Lance grimaced, “while you were dreaming, everything would feel real. Nobody knows what exactly happened in there, though.”

    Keith let out a punched out sound at the confirmation that his family wasn’t real, was just a figment of his imagination. “Lance, I- I had a family,” he moaned, despair evident in his tone.

    “What?”

    A mission gone wrong; a lifetime lived in a night. Keith is forced to contend with the aftermath of accidentally being exposed to an experimental chemical weapon and must recover while fighting to separate fiction from reality. How can he do that when the dream felt so real and still bleeds over into reality, even after waking?

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    19 Jul 2024