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The sixth time, Ray fills in the end of one of Pete’s jokes and Hank Olson says, “Do you two know each other?”
“Yeah,” Pete says, grinning at Ray, watching him flush. “We go way back.”
Or, the road doesn't want 50 people dead on it each year. This creates a great deal of trouble for the boys it decides can stop that.
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24 Oct 2025
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i'd reach into your body and fix you if i could by wearenobodyelse
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
21 Oct 2025
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“Okay. If you don't like your wish and you don't like mine, if you had a do-over, what would you ask for?” Ray asks, unimpressed, like this is a dare that he doesn't expect Pete to be able to complete.
Pete had spent a lot of time thinking about this after the Walk. It’s near impossible not to, really; you’re given the hardest choice you’ll ever make after the most horrific few days of your life, and you have forever to stew in the consequences of it. Pete has been stewing in it, indeed. “Do you really think you can wish for anything?” he asks. “It shouldn’t have been possible to get that kid an elephant so soon, but—”
“You want a magical wish, then? Like a fucking genie? It’s all hypothetical anyway. Go for it.”
Their feet move in tandem, like soldiers. The horrible ache in Pete’s stomach has gone away. This is the only time it ever goes away: here, in a dream, with Ray. “Well, I’d ask if I could just go on walking with you forever.”
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If Pete McVries had another chance, he'd choose a different wish. Post-Canon Garraty/McVries Fix-It.
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05 Oct 2025
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To The Moon And Back by tritavia
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
30 Sep 2025
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He had a wish once, but the more he tried the less he could remember what it had been. It was all gone now, blown away by the gentle winds. Ray was looking at him expectantly. He was clean, he was fed. He was the most well rested he had ever been. There was really only one thing he wanted, only one thing that mattered. “Can I stay with you?”
Ray smiled. He held out his hand. “Sure, Pete. You can stay with me.”
He took the offered hand, soaked in the warmth from the rough fingers. “Where to, Mr. Garraty?”
“Wherever you want, Mr. McVries.”
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04 Oct 2025
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my achilles always bent and bruised by newlydead
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
24 Oct 2025
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Ray had sworn he'd been a dead man. His ticket had gotten punched. Three warnings to forty-seven, and he was more than sure that he'd die. He was ready to give it all up for Pete. He trusted him with his idea in taking out the Major. And when Pete was ready to give his own life up to make sure Ray's idea happened, he knew he had to do the same.
He falls unconscious due to his gun shot wounds, believing that he has succumbed to his injuries. Despite that, Ray finds himself waking in an unfamiliar room and a hazy memory of what had happened once the Walk had ended. The only thing he's sure of? He loves Pete - that wouldn't change. But there was no reason he should be alive, not if Pete was the winner.
Not until he finds out that Pete's one wish was his life.
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03 Oct 2025
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a little further / a little farther by dot_ellipses
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
02 Oct 2025
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Peter McVries sticks to his wish: the Long Walk will, now and forever after, have two winners.
Ray Garraty, who is spared as a consequence instead of directly, isn't quite sure what to do with this information.
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03 Oct 2025