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Gale had been acting weird for the past few weeks.
If he wasn’t busy grading papers, then he was patrolling the halls, and if he weren’t running on patrols then he was at Hagrid’s hut caring for the magical beasts which John was growing weary of.
and it's not even one of the wips i had in my folder. nop. i saw a tiktok about clegan harry potter au and just needed to churn this out during my english class lol
brady is like my comfort character right after clegan, but I thought how funny it would be if he accidentally walked in on the two like confessing their love for each other accidentally
Brady and Demarco are like going through Bucky's air executive private room (because I like clegan having some privacy on the base), and they're like looking for Meatball's leash or whatever, thinking maybe Bucky left it in his room, but then they hear Buck and Bucky arguing from outside and instead of trying to apologize for going through Bucky's place, they just hide in the closest.
BucknBucky walk in through it kind of in the middle of a fight and Brady is like hush to Demarco but then they start listening on what’s happening, and they’re just like ‘woah’ because clegan is just casually confessing their love for eachother in a very heated and romantic moment and brady and demarco are just hiding in the closet
Gale stared at him, a hard look in his eyes. John almost wanted to shrink back from it.
“They know.” It’s not a question from the way he says it, John knows. It’s a statement. He lets out a breath, feeling the air exhale slowly out of him.
“They know.” He confirms. John tries not to let his thoughts swarm. Tries not to feel his prince’s eyes burning into him. Tries not to feel the hot shame coursing through his veins, his inability to hide himself, to hide them. And then that shame turns into discourse, because why should he have to shoulder such a burden. To watch silently from the sides as the man he loves was almost torn away from him.
He raises his head back to Gale’s, and is startled to find not anger, but a quiet fondness.
His prince is propped up by multiple pillows and there is still a pallor to his face. His eyes still have shadows underneath them from the surgery and lack of sleep, but John has never found Gale more beautiful.
“You aren’t angry?” John questions.
Gale ruefully laughs and shakes his head.
“How could I be angry with you?” Gale’s voice comes out a little hoarse, but he has always had a deeper gravel to his tone than John did. John sees the blonde trying to sit up and quickly moves to help him adjust.
gale is the local high school physics teacher who keeps his omega status a secret, lest he wants his son, lucas, taken away from him and his job revoked.
he's been doing a pretty good job at it, until now. lucas has found a new best friend in Benjamin "Benji" Egan, who's father is the loud and attractive alpha on the PTA who all the single omegas seem to oggle at. gale has never paid him any attention until Benji starts coming over pretty regularly, and by default, his father too.
and it all would be completely fine, if gale hadn't forgotten to change out his scent blocker the one day that week Benji and his father were coming over for a playdate.
“I thought I was going crazy.” John breathed into Gale’s ear.
Gale felt, more than heard, whatever John was saying, too distracted by the warmth of the other man on his back.
Gale’s hands were placed flat on the kitchen counter, the knife and apple slices forgotten. There wasn’t much that was going on in Gale’s mind at the moment apart from the aching want of John’s hands on his body. It didn’t matter where anymore.
“Hmm,” he hummed as he tried to think of anything except for the man so close behind him, so dizzyingly close, and the scent. God his scent. John’s was different from most alphas, who had a musky, almost heavy scent. John's was softer, sweeter, but no less heady. A bit of pine, and something clean smelling, it made Gale almost want to keen.
One of John’s hands came up to rest against Gale’s hipbone, and Gale inhaled sharply. He felt John step closer, chest to back now, with the other hand coming up to the front of his abdomen. Gale found himself leaning back to the alpha’s chest, and John’s fingertips left a fire blazing on Gale’s front as they dragged across.
The hand on his abdomen ran up the column of his chest, and then to the base of Gale's neck. Gale could only sigh and close his eyes at the contact with the other man. It had been so long since he had let himself be so enveloped in another’s presence.
John’s hand gently crept along Gale’s neck, coming to rest below his chin. The alpha gently tipped Gale’s head back so that it was leaning against John’s shoulder. With the new angle, John burrowed his nose into the column of Gale’s neck, inhaling deeply at his scent gland.
Gale found himself unable to resist to any capacity. He didn’t think he would have even if he wanted to.
“You are an omega.”
A rush of clarity ran through Gale, and he turned swiftly around so he could meet John’s eyes.
“You wouldn’t-” Gale stuttered, momentarily lost looking into the cerulean blue that was John’s eyes, “Please, you can’t tell anyone.” Gale breathed, now with fear lacing his words.
John’s eyebrows knit in confusion.
“I would never,” The alpha replied, one hand coming up to rest against Gale’s cheek, the other still resting firmly on the omega’s hip. John’s thumb brushes his cheek gently back and forth. “Just tell me one thing.”
Gale nods, trying to dislodge the pit he feels in his stomach suddenly.
“Tell me I’m not the only one who feels this way.” The alpha whispers.
Gale blinks in surprise, and then thinks back to all the times John has come over. How helpful the other man was with just chores around the house, offering to pick up the boys from school, helping make breakfast whenever Benji slept over. But most peculiar had been the stares, when Gale had felt like there were a pair of eyes burning holes into his back. He had previously thought John found his story suspicious. The lack of a wife, no marriage certificate or divorce, and hardly any pictures hanging in the house.
It was all friendly if Gale had been an alpha, which is what he let the rest of the world believe. But Gale had always shivered at the way John looked at him, like there was a hidden meaning beneath those eyes.
Gale looked at those eyes now. Deep blue and twinkling. In lieu of a response, Gale simply surged forward and captured John’s lips with his.
The blonde could tell he had caught John by surprise, but the alpha was nothing if not enthusiastic in return. John pressed into Gale greedily, one hand winding around Gale’s back and the other caressing his head, angling his head to the side to allow for a deeper kiss.
Gale found his hands carding through John’s hair, tugging at the brown strands and hearing John make a low moan which shot down to Gale’s core.
John brushed the discarded apples to the side, but carefully placed the knife into the sink.
“Can’t let you get cut now can we?” He smirked before lifting Gale by the waist and settling him down on the countertop. Gale let out a grunt of surprise at his feet now dangling away from the floor, but chuckled after looking at John’s smug smile between his legs.
“You are nothing if not considerate.” Gale said, before wrapping his legs around John and pulling him in for another kiss.
Gale let out a breathy sigh as he felt John hands sneak below his shirt, his fingers drawing dangerously close to Gale’s chest. The blonde broke the kiss with stuttered breathing, and caught John’s hand before it ventured to the point of no return.
“Wait, the boys are still–”
“DAD!” Footsteps thumped down the staircase.
The two men almost vibrated out of their skin at the speed they jumped apart, just as two pairs of feet ran into the kitchen.
Gale cleared his throat with a cough, and John suddenly found a new interest in the refrigerator pictures. He had never noticed how much of an artist Lucas was until now.
“Can we have apples now?” Benji asked innocently, without a care for the air of tension in the room. Lucas however, first looked oddly at John, before noticing the way his dad wasn’t meeting his eyes.
“Dad, why are you sitting up there? And why’s your face so red?”
2000’s High school au my sister and I came up with a while ago. In order for Bucky to stay on the baseball team, he needs better grades, so Buck is assigned as his tutor.
clegan but make it mafia and crime and billionaire playboys !
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In which Bucky is the heir of a well-to-do billion dollar company with ties to some pretty shady businesses, and Gale is the bastard son of his father’s rival, who just so happens to be in the mafia.
a lil excerpt of a work in progress:
A hand covered his mouth, and then suddenly an arm shot around his waist pinning his arms to his side. Gale felt himself pulled back into a narrow corner of the warehouse. He let out a muffled grunt but the pressure on his mouth only increased to the point it was almost painful.
He squirmed weakly against whoever was behind him but his body was still aching from the punches the grunts had inflicted earlier in the day.
“Stay quiet. I’ll get us both out of here.” The voice wasn’t too deep. Not nearly as much as his own, but it had a nice tone. Smooth, and it tickled the nape of Gale’s neck as it was whispered to him. “I don’t suppose you’re very friendly with the owners of this fine establishment.”
Gale let out a huff that hopefully meant: no he was very much not friendly with the men who had hijacked his bike and then knocked him out.
“Okay. Promise me you won’t scream if I let go. Give me a nod.”
Gale debated trying to elbow the man behind him and making a run for it. But anything would probably be better than being caught at this moment, and in his condition he wouldn’t be making it very far anyway. He nodded slowly.
Slowly the hand moved off his mouth, and the arm around his waist repositioned itself so his arms were free to move on their own accord. Gale made a move to stand himself, but his left knee gave out as soon as he went to put some pressure on it.
A sharp jolt of pain ran up from his kneecap to his thigh, and Gale realized the knife wound from earlier had probably opened. Gale closed his eyes and tried to muffle his own scream with his hand. He exhaled a shaky breath, trying to will the throbbing to go away, and suddenly became aware of the arm around him tightening again, holding up a majority of his weight that he couldn’t keep himself.
the similarities between Buck and Bucky and bucky and steve from captain america are just too good not for me to think of an mcu au.
for me it could go bothways who's captain america and who's the winter soldier, but I think for maximal brainwashing angst and forced to do horrible things i like bucky = captain america and buck = winter soldier
in my mind, Buck never made it to the POW camp after his plane goes down, and after getting the phone call Bucky flies his revenge mission and makes it back alive to Thorpe Abbots because of the super soldier serum. but he can't fly again without buck there and so leads forces on the ground (think captain america the first avenger war montage) and finds the tesseract and then flies himself into the arctic, and its a picture of gale in his compass or the lucky deuce he kept when he finally crashes
so Buck is obviously not actually dead but was targeted by Hydra because he has a lot of similarities with Bucky but since Bucky was chosen by the goods guys, Hydra needs their version of the super soldier. so they kidnap Buck after he parachutes from his plane, torture him, make him the winter soldier, and make him do all those horrible things until John "captain america" egan encounters him in like 2014 (or whenever the timeline is)
Buck is tasked with killing captain america by hydra, so cue a bunch of angst since Bucky obviously remembers and still loves buck and recognizes him despite the mask and we have the famous:
"buck?"
"who the hell is buck"
Buck is actively trying to kill Bucky and his companions. Bucky's trio consists of one Curt "Falcon" Biddick (he's not dead i don't let him) and another Harry Crosby who just so happens to be a part of some secret agency (yes all the pilots just become characters in the modern era bc i want them in the story). so the trio is trying, on one hand not to get killed by the winter soldier, and another not get killed by crosby's super secret agency that turns out to be evil and related to why Buck is the winter soldier
curt and crosby both think Bucky is crazy for wanting to talk to the winter solider since obviously they think he's psychotic and has done all these horrible things in the past and there's no way that talking with the guy will do anything but Bucky is determined to try. he thought he lost his best friend/lover once and now it's like the universe is giving them another chance in another era
Buck on the other hand is having a mental breakdown because who the hell is this all american boi in tights and a shield, calling him a name he hasn't heard in so long he can't tell if the memory of it is real or not because obviously hydra washed his entire mind. but in the depths of his mind he associates the name "buck" with open skies, leather jackets, and a 2 dollar bill for some reason. but every time he tries to remember or think too hard he gets this excruciating pain in his head and hydra keeps brainwashing and torturing him the more he tries to think so just a lot of pain and anguish for poor buck.
then the climax is the fight on the falling shield hover craft, and buck and bucky are really going at it, like even if bucky wanted to pull his punches he can't in the effort to stay alive against the winter soldier. at one point bucky corners gale and calls him gale, and there's debris flying all around them, they're in the sky and it feels like they're almost flying again, so bucky says something like "we're the last 2 in the air. it's me, and it's you buck" and that just like short circuits buck's brain completely, but also makes it so painful that he just wants it to stop and comes at john even harder and eventually has captain america finally down. but bucky's done fighting, he can't hurt his best friend/the love of his life, but buck is not and:
buck says something like: "i'll take you down with me if I have to"
and then bucky says, while all bloody and messed up: "don't count on it"
and then BOOM the hover craft explodes and they both fall in the river, and Bucky is completely out of it. he feels the water rushing all around him but he's too tired and beat up to even do anything, and then he feels something tugging at him. he feels himself break the surface and he's trying to take gulps of air but he can't open his eyes for the life of him. somehow he feels solid ground below him and just as he's peering through his lids he sees a metallic glint and piercing blue eyes and then nothing.
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