Oblique Recs

Here you will find fic recs for different fandoms. Basically, whatever fics I read and like so the fandoms will change to whatever I feel like at that time. I've also got a personal blog if you'd like to follow that. If by chance you click on a story and the link doesn't work, let me know and I'll try and fix it asap. Current Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy, Psych, Torchwood, Glee, Supernatural, Sherlock, Harry Potter, Inception, Superman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers, Teen Wolf, Leverage, and Merlin.

[hermitreunited]

wire and germanium -  G | 3k+ | 1/1 | The Umbrella Academy | Grace & Klaus

He’s a good father and an excellent man. It was so silly of Grace to offer her advice, because of course he doesn’t need her input to raise his children precisely as he sees fit. He always does what is best for the children, even if they are too childish to see it. They are only eight, after all. Childishness is to be expected, surely. But Mr. Hargreeves has no tolerance for excuses or faulty property.

Second fill for Bad Things Happen Bingo: I Should Have Been Better. Which, now that I’ve written it, feels like not quite what I wrote, but the inspiration came from there, so it’s just going to have to count.

Got a lot of Grace feelings about being a robot and a mom and a human, and a little Klaus finding some flawed but needed coping mechanisms. 

[ao3feed-klave]

by TwistedIllusions

In all of the years he’d been forced to endure his pitiful life on this planet, Klaus had never been fortunate enough to know what love was - that was until Dave showed him what it truly meant to be loved, and to be in love, and experience it all first hand in the most beautifully romantic of ways.

Words: 3389, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Klaus Hargreeves, Dave Katz

Relationships: Dave/Klaus Hargreeves

Additional Tags: Fluff, Love, date, Dave shows Klaus what love means, Best boyfriend Dave Katz, Dave & Klaus Hargreeves During Vietnam, Klaus Hargreeves Deserves Love, Klaus Hargreeves Gets Love, Klaus finally gets what he deserves, no beta we die like ben

[ao3feed-umbrellaacademy]

tea, milk, and honey

by TotallynotRemus

Of all things Klaus expected to see when going downstairs in the middle of the night to get himself a midnight snack, a completely shitfaced Five sitting by the bar while hugging a half-empty bottle of whiskey and singing to himself definitely wasn’t on the top of his list. Actually, scratch that. It wasn’t on the list at all.

Or, someone forgot to tell Klaus about Five’s alcoholic tendencies, and he has to find that out for himself. Cue to sibling bonding.

For the Bad Things Happen bingo - Big Brother Instinct.

Words: 2019, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo

Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Klaus Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)

Relationships: Number Five | The Boy & Klaus Hargreeves

Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Sibling Bonding, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, No Incest, Not Beta Read We Die Like Ben, Bad Things Happen Bingo, Nightmares, Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking, Post-Canon

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/23872504

[tua-koffee]

READ THIS, FOOLS ITS SO GOOD I JUST READ IT AND IM OBLITERATED

[hermitreunited]

For bingo, how about truth serum for Klaus so his family actually takes the words coming out of his mouth as seriously as they should’ve all along (maybe with a nice sprinkle of “oh shit, we fucked up so much didn’t we klaus needs us more than we knew” for spiciness). Hurt AND comfort? (Or not if you don’t want to, you do you)

Anon, this is exactly where my head was at for this prompt too!! Klaus DOES NOT like to share about his trauma, and it would also be hard for the others to hear about. I like your brain.

I know I posted the bingo card saying people could send in requests but to be honest I am pikachu surprised face that anyone actually DID??!? but alright yes I will do my best to prioritize a little here and get something out for you

[hermitreunited]

So it’s one day over a full month later, but I did actually write this fic!! Well, I wrote a truth serum fic. I’m not sure if it lines up exactly to what you were looking for? But I wrote it, and it’s Klaus whump, and it’s the first square on my likely to never be finished Bad Things Happen Bingo card!

[partypetes]

TUA Creator’s Bingo: Hazel

Summary: An old friend stops by. Certain people don’t appreciate this.

Pairings/Characters: Klaus Hargreeves, Ben Hargreeves, Five Hargreeves, Hazel

Word Count: 1054

Square Filled: Hazel

Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Bentacles

A/N: look i like hazel A LOT as a character but he cant just waltz back in here with no consequences. i was originally going to have dave in here, but someone Just wrote the perfect fic of dave decking hazel and it was too beautiful to top, so i went for the next best thing.

AO3 Link(soon? i dont know how i feel about this one)

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[villklovn]

TUA Feedback Fest!

Here are some fic recs! @tuafeedbackfest

(mainly Klaus centric ‘cause that’s how I roll, baby) I’m so sorry for the delay but, y’know, life happened ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Warnings will contain main triggers, but most of these recs imply canon-typical warnings, like violence, alcohol and drugs. Also, please look at the tags left by the author, too, because I can’t write all of them. It’s a long list, so…

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[bentacles-hargreeves]

Remus’ List of Fanfic Favorites - @tuafeedbackfest​

Thank you to all the writers in this amazing fandom who worked hard on making and sharing their stories with us, without you the fandom wouldn’t be the same!

Short/Oneshot:

Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by shadowlancer_95 (Teen and Up) “No matter what anyone said, he isn’t suicidal. Not really. Or, they’ve all been given a second chance, not just to stop the apocalypse, but to live their lives once again. This time, he’s determined to not to be the useless weak link that he was in their previous timeline.“ 13,128 Words.

Salt and the Sea by ObliqueOptimism (Not Rated) “After more than a decade of homelessness and drug abuse, it’s not a surprise Klaus’ appetite ended up beyond wrecked, and his body showed it. It’s not like he was ever that great at taking care of himself anyway. Five decides to fix that.“ 2,683 Words.

i saw you die (and your love cry) by MildeAmasoj (Teen and Up) “Ben Hargreeves sits beside his brother as he opens the briefcase and disappears. Ben waits for him at the bus stop, but when Klaus comes back he’s not alone, he’s covered in blood, and only Ben can see him. Or, AU in which Dave survives but Klaus doesn’t, and they both travel to 2019, but Klaus is a ghost and Dave doesn’t know. Ben does, but the only person he can talk to is just as dead as him.” 3,858 Words.

That Creepy Kid by brionylarkin (Teen and Up) “Klaus is creepy. He’s always been creepy. Sometimes this helps people, sometimes it hurts them. Either way, Klaus meets a lot of people and has a huge effect on every single one of them, Or, 5 times Klaus is creepy without realizing, +1 time he admits it.” 5,854 Words.

leave the light on by slytherincosette (Not Rated) “It’s the middle of the night (if his calculations are correct, which they very well may not be, but hey, at least it’s dark out), but the lights are on. One in the foyer, a few peaking through the tiny kitchen windows, one in Vanya’s room and– And one in his room. Holy shit, Five thinks. I did it. I’m home. - Five spends four years in the apocalypse before he manages to make it home. Luckily, there are people who have spent every night since he left waiting for him to come back.”  1,741 Words & sequel.

Chaptered/Long Fic:

Comes And Goes (In Waves) series, by hujwernoo (Mature) “The apocalypse happens, Five arrives in the rubble, and his entire family is dead. However, one of them has power over ghosts. And even if being dead seriously sucks sometimes, Klaus is going to be there for his brother.“ Complete, 10 Works & 257,180 Words.

Neon Groves, by LiviJoyann (Mature) “Klaus Hargreeves travels back to the Vietnam War and falls in love with Dave… and we’ve seen almost none of it so far. Enjoy a full following of Klaus’s time in 1968 from the first kiss to the first “I love you”, and ultimately, to the end (with just about everything in between).” Complete, 30 Chapters & 200,000 Words.

The Only Hope For Me Is You, by TwistedIllusions (Mature) “What if Dave never died in Klaus’s arms? What if, instead, he convinced Klaus to quit taking drugs while still in 1968; ‘causing him to start his withdrawals while he was still in Vietnam. If Klaus was too sick to fight, he and Dave would have never made it to the front lines. Meaning they discovered Klaus’s cancer sooner—Was it soon enough to save his life?” In-Progress, 19/20 Chapters & 97,295 Words. (tw: Cancer)

The Moon Laughs, by Lady_Origami (Teen and Up) “After attempting to transport all of his siblings back in time, Five wakes up to a familiar scene. Again. And again. And again. He doesn’t know why he keeps being transported back to the day of his father’s funeral, but he is determined to not waste it now that he has the foresight to prevent the apocalypse. He just wished he didn’t feel so alone doing it all over again.“ In-Progress, 24/? Chapters & 89,302 Words.

Crash The Cemetery Gates, by Arowen12 (Mature) “Klaus straightened slightly as he remembered. Right the Apocalypse. Vanya. Five. Time-travel. Thirteen again. Klaus was fine. He could do this. Stay sober, stay clean. For Vanya, for Ben. Dave. What could go wrong? Everything. But everything had already gone wrong before so Klaus at least was prepared this time.“ Complete, 9 Chapters & 76,926 Words.

Favorite Writers:

VeteranKlaus

ObliqueOptimism

Intheflowers

Siriuspiggyback

Hujwernoo

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this is the beat of my heart (the fear of falling apart), by TotallynotRemus (Teen and Up) “Sometimes you have that realization that things are worse than you’d previously thought, and you have to wonder how it got that far. Or, six times the Hargreeves stumbled upon Klaus’ growing addiction, and one more.“ Complete (with a sequel planned), 7 Chapters & 6,085 Words.

Nobody Forgets Their First Time, by TotallynotRemus (Teen and Up) “There’s blood on his underwear and bruises on his skin and Klaus doesn’t remember how they ended up there.“ Oneshot, 1,859 Words. (tw: implied/referenced sexual assault)

Garbage Baby by TotallynotRemus (Teen and Up) “Klaus stares at the direction of where the noise is coming from, before carefully approaching the apparent source of the muffled cries that only get louder the closer he gets: another dumpster, further into the piss-covered alleyway and surrounded by trash bags and empty cardboard boxes. He shares a look with Ben, opening the lid to reveal— A baby. Or, in which Klaus unexpectedly becomes a parent and has to deal with the challenges of raising a child on his own.“ In-Progress, 1/? Chapters & 2,549 Words.

bad habits are the hardest to break by TotallynotRemus (Teen and Up) “So as it turns out, actually staying clean for longer than a few days is a lot harder than Klaus had first anticipated, especially when he hasn’t been fully sober since he was twelve years old and found out about the sweet, sweet numbness that came with a few painkillers after he broke his jaw playing around with mom’s high heels— even if, technically, he’s thirteen again and his body doesn’t yet know anything harder than weed, booze and a few pills now and then. To say things haven’t been easy for Klaus is almost a hilarious understatement, but he’s trying, alright? Swear down, honest to god, trying. That has to count for something.“ Oneshot, 5,876 Words.

[hermitreunited]

💜💜Klave Fic Recs!! 💜💜

Surprising probably uhhh no one, I go absolutely WILD for Klaus and Dave, but this list is the restrained edit. It deffff could be longer. This ship means so so much to me, and that is absolutely the product of reading such incredible, beautiful fic about them. I have never before felt as strongly about a fictional couple, which I guess means it’s my first actual otp? So so many thanks to the writers who wrote fic about these two and taught me what longing and love are.

Ten Months by @fanthings​

It makes him sad, sometimes, that in order to find acceptance, Klaus has to travel back fifty years into one of the bloodiest wars of American history. Most of the time, he doesn’t care. His family probably doesn’t even notice he’s missing anyway. — Dave is looking at him, eyes soft and heavy lidded. “What did you say to that guy?” he asks, head resting on the wall, body turned towards Klaus. “Ah,” Klaus laughs, dropping his hand to take a drink. “Just mouthed off. You know how I am.” “That mouth will get you in trouble some day,” Dave says softly. Klaus looks up, swallowing. “Some people like my mouth,” he says. “I do.”

Rating: M⎜Word Count: 122k+⎜In Progress (10/14)

Fuck. Fuck! I can’t explain how much I love this fic. I’ve gone out of my mind over it. It’s so so good. Covering Klaus’ ten months in Vietnam, and his and Dave’s relationship. It’s so well written and detailed and all the characters even OCs are so well-realized and realistic. Dave is fully fleshed out too, with strengths and flaws and his own person, not Klaus’ prop. It made me realize that Klaus and Dave fighting is my favorite thing, because then they get back together. They always work to fix things with each other and ahhh god I’m emotional just thinking about it I adore this fic.

Oddities Observed, Vietnam 1968 by @charmingpplincardigans​

“There are people who care whether you live or die,” Dave said, because he felt it needed saying. He couldn’t imagine not caring. This man was erratic, but he was also fragile in a way Dave couldn’t quite put his finger on given how he was apparently also indestructible, and deeply intuitive about people and their moods. When he wasn’t as high as the army doctors’ pills and black-market heroin would allow, he was paying attention. Dave knew, because while Klaus was paying attention to the others, he was paying attention to Klaus. “Do you think?” Klaus pulled a joint out of his metal cigarette case, lit it, and took a hit. He offered it to Dave, who didn’t take it. He was always offering his things to Dave, even when he knew they weren’t things Dave wanted. “Yes,” he said. “I do.” (Or, Vietnam, but from Dave’s point of view.)

Rating: M⎜Word Count: 17k+⎜Complete (1/1)

An absolute classic. I don’t think I’ve seen it on other lists this week and that’s simply a crime. One of the first Vietnam fics I read and still one of the best! It’s got such a good blend of that lethal combination of all Klaus and Dave fics - on fire with the fear and violence of their situation, but so full of tenderness and love. It’s got desperation, in the best way. It’s beautiful.

the kind of love i’ve been dreaming of by katplanet

“You agreed to be a designated driver,” Klaus says, because of course he’s as good at this as he is at every other thing he and Dave have done in bed together. “All your stupid Varsity Lacrosse friends started annoying you, so you were looking for someone else to talk to. And lo and behold, a sad twink in a crop top, alone on the couch with a half-finished vodka cranberry.” “What’s a twink?” “Me,” Klaus says. “I’m a twink.”

Rating: E⎜Word Count: 6k+⎜Complete (1/1)

The only explicit fic I’ve ever recced? I don’t read too much smut, but this fic. The tenderness in this fic is enough to kill you, and then also there is smut, which is a potent combination! This is the fic that gave me my Klaus and Dave tag, because reading this fic, I cried and came to some realizations about Love.

Slow is in My Blood by @sunriseseance​​

Dave touches him, sometimes. In dances through root systems lit by a diffused moon, Dave puts a hand on his lower back, his arm, his shoulder. To help, he says. Your balance, he says, it isn’t good. I don’t want you to fall. These pits are endless, he says. You don’t like the dark. A touch to help. It helps. A meditation on Klaus and allowing himself to be loved. Dave doesn’t die at the end.

Rating: NR⎜Word Count: 1k+⎜Complete (1/1)

It’s so so gorgeous. It’s Klaus making the decision to love and be loved, even as he considers all the frightening ramifications of it. It’s had a huge impact on the way I think about their dynamic. I love it so much.

My night sky by apathyinreverie

The first time Dave sees Klaus, he is wearing nothing but a bloody towel, clutching a briefcase to his chest like his life depends on it and looking up at him with big eyes from where he is sitting on the floor next to his cot. And immediately, Dave is spellbound. Over the ten months they know each other, that doesn’t change.

Rating: G⎜Word Count: 3k+⎜Complete (1/1)

Such a great look at Klaus from Dave’s outside, but smitten perspective. Almost like a character study of him, during a time when he’s going through so much. And it’s so well-written - right from the start there’s a line about Klaus being made of contradictions that has stuck with me for so long.

Bad Habits by @siriuspiggyback

Dave shook his head. “I wasn’t asking you to- I wanted to talk. That’s all. Not-” “Why are you making this so difficult?” accused Klaus. “I made you mad. So I was going to suck you off, so you wouldn’t be mad anymore,” he said simply, like he was explaining something obvious. Or, after a lifetime of sleeping with guys just to get off the streets for the night, Klaus has a bad understanding of consent. Dave isn’t okay with that.

Rating: T⎜Word Count: 3k+⎜Complete (1/1)

And if we are talking about things that have stuck with me, this fic is one that I must have read so early on that I just folded it in with my baby developing Klaus and Dave dynamic headcanons, and it’s never left me. I think this is the only one on here that is set in some kind of post-not-apocalypse where they are navigating what a ‘normal’ relationship looks like for them.

I’ll Be Cleaning Up Bottles With You On New Year’s Day by @sunriseseance

Sitting behind him on the windowsill, in a truth that still feels false, is Dave. Quiet, right now. Rubbing Klaus’s neck. Kissing it occasionally. New clothes, even, though still only things Klaus saw Dave wear in life. The closest he came to fancy enough for New Year’s was the outfit he wore on the night they first kissed. The dates still get muddled in his head. Dave still smells like Dave. Klaus can bring that back, too. The earthy-clean skin, the slight scent of sweat, the cotton of the polo. Something else, underneath all that. Something that Klaus could recognize anywhere, could follow to the end of the world, could die to protect.

Rating: NR⎜Word Count: 1k+⎜Complete (1/1)

I know I’ve recced this and her fics before but this fic is so incredibly beautiful that it really is the perfect fit for being the final one I rec for this event. Reading it feels like warmth. It’s a concentrated dose of the exact kind of happiness that Klaus and Dave share at the best of times. I love it, and I love them, and I love her, and I love everyone in this fandom who is sharing their love with everyone by posting their creations <3

thanks for this week nine days of positivity, @tuafeedbackfest and everyone who participated!

[glass-o-lemonade]

TUA Feedback Fest - March 31, 2020

Last post for today! I promise! (You would not believe how long one of these takes to type up.)

Here’s some character-centric fic recommendations. I highly recommend each of these!

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[bentacles-hargreeves]

Remus’ List of Klave Fanfic Favorites - @tuafeedbackfest​

Thank you to all the writers in this amazing fandom who worked hard on making and sharing their stories with us, without you the fandom wouldn’t be the same!

Bad Enough for You, by thehoundisdead (Gen) “Dave can be bad. He doesn’t want to be but he can. He wants to spoon Klaus; to gather him up tight enough against his chest to hold all of his pieces together, to let him relax for once. He wants to take a bath with him and shampoo his hair and make him breakfast in bed and wrap him up in his softest blanket. But that’s not what Klaus wants, at least not yet. Dave has a strong suspicion that Klaus has never been treated softly by a partner. So, bad boy.” Modern Dave, Oneshot, 8,752 Words.

Late Shift at The Umbrella Café, by intravenusann (Teen and Up) “Klaus and Ben have the afternoon shift together almost every day. But not every day are the customers as nice — or as hot! — as this new Dave guy. Or, in other words, a story where Klaus gets his life together enough to get a boyfriend.“ In-Progress, 6/8 Chapters & 45,563 Words.

At the Edge of the Universe, by VeteranKlaus (Teen and Up) “There is a knock at the door. With a heavy sigh, Klaus untangles himself from the mess of Dave’s limbs with a mutter of ‘I’ve got it’. They rarely get visitors out here, their closest neighbour being about three miles away, and Klaus didn’t even hear a car or see any headlights outside. He opens his door, expecting to see old Mrs Richards asking for one of the dog treats they always keep for the occasions her dog runs off. He does not, however, expect to see his siblings - all of them, standing outside his door. Well, Five is being held up by Diego, and Vanya is being carried by Luther, but they are all there, on his doorstep, on this evening in 1970. Or, Dave doesn’t die, but he and Klaus get injured and discharged. They move to a little cottage in the countryside and live together, perfectly content, until they get a group of surprise visitors. Five tries to send them all into the past to avoid the end of the world, and is drawn right to Klaus.” In-Progress, 12/? Chapters & 44,787 Words.

5 times the hargreeves’ didn’t understand why dave was with klaus, plus the 1 time they did, by iamnotalizard (Not Rated) “The 5 times the Hargreeves siblings don’t understand why a guy like Dave is with Klaus, plus the one time that they do. Or: Dave is a closeted dumbass.“ Oneshot, 4,174 Words.

cryin’ for no one (no one but you), by MildeAmasoj (Teen and Up) “Klaus Hargreeves, it turned out, only got more interesting the more he got to know him. As if appearing out of thin air was not enough, he was undeniably the weirdest, craziest and wildest person Dave had ever met, and he could not, for the life of him, stop thinking about him. Or, Dave, Klaus, and falling in love.“ Oneshot, 3,517 Words.

Sealskin, by intheflowers (Mature) “Dave is a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island. It’s a lonely life until a mysterious man washes ashore.“ Selkies, Complete, 19 Chapters & 68,887 Words.

I Took a Week Off Work And My Brain Didn’t Know What to Do With That, Clearly, by ObliqueOptimism (Not Rated) “Dave is shot and dies a week into Klaus’ trip in Vietnam, when they’re still barely more than just strangers. Somehow, it doesn’t change a thing between them and the two still fall in love all the same, even with Dave being a ghost now.But it changes other things.“ Oneshot, 8,145 Words.

Details series (Choirs Threaten in Voices I Only Feel & See It Through), by VeteranKlaus (Teen and Up) “The last time Klaus saw his siblings was at Allison and Patrick’s wedding. A lot had changed since then; including the not-so-accidental, irreversible loss of his sight. There’s no time to tell them that, though. Not with the return of their long-presumed-dead brother and the impending apocalypse. Plus, it doesn’t matter. He’s got Ben as a good seeing-eye ghost.” Blind Klaus, In-Progress?, 2 Works & 66,351 Words.

Knots and Nos, by hujwernoo (Mature) “Dave learns a few things about Klaus. Klaus learns a few things about consent (mainly: it exists).“ Oneshot, 2,318 Words.

in the mountain of the crouching beast, by patrocluus (Teen and Up) “Dave catches his eye later, when they’re sitting next to each other in the bumpy truck, men jostling into each other on all sides; the corner of his mouth quirks up a little, just enough to make Klaus’ heart jump in his chest. He doesn’t remember the last time someone looked at him like that: like they have a secret to share, and that secret is the most important thing in the world, even if that world seems to be ending around them. Or: It’s 1968, and deep in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, Klaus meets a man who feels like home.” Oneshot, 8,203 Words.

Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene, by ObliqueOptimism (Not Rated) “Klaus says so many horrifying things so casually, and it makes Dave worry.“ Complete, 3 Chapters & 7,165 Words.

Such A Dubious Soul, by siriuspiggyback (Teen and Up) ““Well, if someone would pretend to be my boyfriend…” Klaus trailed off suggestively. Dave was struck with the sudden urge to say yes. Honestly, Dave wanted to agree to anything, as long as Klaus would smile at him again. It would be reckless, and mad, and impulsive, and Dave was none of those things. And yet… “I’ll do it,” Dave said.“ Fake Dating, Complete, 10 Chapters & 16,001 Words.

It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You), by thefangirlingdead (Mature) “The first time Klaus gets drunk, he’s only thirteen years old, and it’s all downhill from there. At least, until he meets Dave.” Complete, 23,914 Words.

Wild Eyed Boy by intheflowers (Mature) “Klaus dropped into Dave’s life with a flash of blue light. It was the first time Klaus suprised him, but it was far from the last, and while at first he’d wondered if Klaus was maybe a little mad, it wasn’t long before he was certain that he really, definitely was. Not that it mattered much. Klaus had stolen his heart long before then.“ Complete, 18 Chapters & 64,414 Words.

dream me the world (something new for every night) by siriuspiggyback (Teen and Up) “Dave said into the warmth of his mouth, “Maybe I dreamt you.” Klaus eyes sparkled with mirth. “Thanks for the straight teeth, then.”“ Dave is one of the 43, Oneshot, 7,009 Words.

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Dead & Born & Grown [teen rating. klave. major character death. afterlife] “No, no, no, no, no, I can’t go back, I can’t go back!” Klaus cried out. He felt himself fading, and he knew that he would find himself back on the sticky floor of the rave soon enough. Then, following some desperate instinct, Klaus jerked up out of the barber’s chair, brushing past his father and back out the door. He wasn’t going back.

Dear Klaus [teen rating. klave. hurt/comort] Klaus reached for the letter, curious, and took a look at the address. His heart skipped a beat.He knew that handwriting. Or, Klaus receives a letter from 1969.

dream me the world (something new for every night) [teen rating. klave. dave is one of the 43. time skips. fix-it] Dave said into the warmth of his mouth, “Maybe I dreamt you.” Klaus eyes sparkled with mirth. “Thanks for the straight teeth, then.”

oh doctor please, this don’t feel wrong  [explicit. klave. ptsd. hurt/comfort] Klaus wants Dave. Dave wants Klaus. It should be that simple, but things never are. (Set several weeks after The Ghost of Us by veteranklaus)

Old Friends/Bookends  [teen rating. no apocalypse. bi!diego. brothers being brothers] Diego didn’t mean to forget about Klaus, but between the impending apocalypse and Vanya’s new powers, the mystery of his brother disappearance had fallen by the wayside. It wasn’t until he received a phone call from the hospital that he thought to panic. Now he was stuck with a brother who didn’t remember him, and a family that had narrowly avoided ending the world by lack of communication alone. Great.

Such a Dubious Soul  [teen rating. klave. no powers. meet-cute] “Well, if someone would pretend to be my boyfriend…” Klaus trailed off suggestively.Dave was struck with the sudden urge to say yes. Honestly, Dave wanted to agree to anything, as long as Klaus would smile at him again. It would be reckless, and mad, and impulsive, and Dave was none of those things. And yet…“I’ll do it,” Dave said.

The Hidden Variables Theory  [teen rating. klave. typical hargreeves family nonsense. time shenanigans] Something has disturbed the space-time continuum, and it’s up to Five to figure out what it is. With a bit of luck, and a lot of alcohol, he might even manage to do it before he snaps and murders his siblings.

Tombstones in Their Eyes  [teen rating. klave. ptsd. hurt/comfort. hargreeves family] His siblings don’t pay a lot of attention to Klaus, don’t notice the dog tags and new tattoos, but even the Hargreeves have to notice a missing limb.

you are in my blood like holy wine  [teen rating. wip. klave. au modern. slow burn. caretaking] Dave tries to be good to Klaus. (Klaus tries to let him.)

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Closer I Am to Fine  The Hargreeves siblings, learning how to be a family. Notes:Assumes Allison wasn’t hurt and the apocalypse was averted. Each fic in the series can stand alone, and are from the POV of a different sibling.

Hope There’s Someone (Who Will Take Care of Me)

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A Spirit Who’s Spent in Death (Do Your Weeping Now) [teen rating. wip. klave. typical hargreeves family nonsense] There’s something off about him - more so than usual. The way he moves, the way he reacts - or, the way he doesn’t - the way he looks at things as if he’s peering at everything through a rippling pool of water; it’s the way in which he sits and in his appearance, too. He moves as if he’s a ghost, or as if he might think that he is one.He sits, looking like a corpse among them, pale and wilting like a dead flower, and he hardly says a word. Diego doesn’t know what to do. Luther does.

At the Edge of the Universe  [teen rating. wip. klave. canon divergence. typical hargreeves family nonsense] Or, Dave doesn’t die, but he and Klaus get injured and discharged. They move to a little cottage in the countryside and live together, perfectly content, until they get a group of surprise visitors. Five tries to send them all into the past to avoid the end of the world, and is drawn right to Klaus.

Family Role  [teen rating. wip. klave. parent!klaus. typical hargreeves family nonsense] Klaus doesn’t want to go to the funeral. He’s got all the family he needs right here in the form of his deceased brother reading in the armchair nearby, his bookworm fiance mixing a cup of coffee in the kitchen, and the sleeping six year old on his lap. Or, in which Klaus meets Dave, falls in love, and finds himself with a six year old daughter and a relatively normal life and, somehow, arguably the most normal one out of his siblings now.

It’s All Over But the Crying  [mature. klave. typical hargreeves family nonsense] Two days after Reginald Hargreeve’s funeral, Number Four finally showed up; striding into the academy with skin as pale as snow, lipstick and nails and clothes as dark as the night, and kohl-lined eyes as fierce as a feral wolf and a grin just as sharp.Or, in which drugs don’t affect the ghosts anymore, so Klaus, over the years, comes to live with his powers and learns some more. He’s not okay, but who needs to be okay when God herself doesn’t like you?

Soldier Boy  [teen rating. wip. klave. amputation. hurt/comfort] Klaus returned from Vietnam feeling a bit like a ghost, covered in dirt and blood, and all but dragging himself back to the Academy. It probably would have been easier to drag himself the way, too, what with a shoddy 70s prosthesis replacing his right leg. Who has time for the apocalypse when it seems like the worst has already happened?

There is Love with No Hiding [teen rating. wip. klave. typical hargreeves family nonsense] “He’s my… he’s my boyfriend.” He looks back at him and, with a small smile on his face, Dave nods, and Klaus turns back to Diego. “Yeah, he’s my boyfriend.” He laughs because that feels so good to say. Or;Dave doesn’t die and they return to the future after twenty-seven months in Vietnam. It complicates things, but maybe for the better.

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Details  The last time Klaus saw his siblings was at Allison and Patrick’s wedding. A lot had changed since then; including the not-so-accidental, irreversible loss of his sight. There’s no time to tell them that, though. Not with the return of their long-presumed-dead brother and the impending apocalypse. Plus, it doesn’t matter. He’s got Ben as a good seeing-eye ghost.  

Gunfire Sounds Like Home  All of them have been trying to process what happened and are trying to be hopeful for the future, but Diego still feels utterly horrible, like the worlds worst brother, as he sits down in the sudden family meeting he called. “Klaus,” he states, looking at the four siblings in front of him, “hasn’t been seen for almost a week. "They search all his known spots: cheap motels, deep alleyways, old drug dens. In the end, they find him in a history book.Or, in which Klaus doesn’t return from Vietnam.

Marching Drums  Klaus post-vietnam

Numbers  The briefcase transports Klaus into a time to fall in love with a bookshop owner and photography enthusiast with soft amber eyes and a yellow star sewn into all of his clothes. And later, Klaus will stand next to that same man behind a fence, and he’ll hold his hands up to a camera and pray to a merciless god that his siblings open a history book and find him.

Specialize in Dying  Attempting to save them, Five tries to travel back in time with all his siblings. Instead, they go forwards into the apocalypse.Klaus sees all of the ghosts. 

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A Taste of a Poison Paradise  [not rated. wip. klave. vietnam] Peter isn’t sure if he can get his men out of the mess they’re in, but Klaus is sure he can help and so Peter is going to have to put his faith in a man who claims he can see the dead.

Ain’t Nobody’s Problem [not rated. klave. diego reaction] Klaus asks for help

Ain’t No Sunshine When You’re Gone  [not rated. klave. typical hargreeve family nonsense] Klaus rarely defended himself. Especially from the ones he loved.Good thing Dave was here to defend him.

And When I Look In My Window, So Many Different People To Be [not rated. bamf!klaus. klave. typical hargreeves family nonsense] If you were to go looking for Klaus, you wouldn’t look to the alleys where drugs are bought, or to a rave where you could lose yourself in dance, no. No, you would look to his garden full of protective herbs, to his bedroom at three in the morning where he tends to make magic amulets. Klaus grew into his power, both as a witch, and as the Séance.

Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene  [klave. vietnam] Klaus says so many horrifying things so casually, and it makes Dave worry.

Different as Can Be  [not rated. klaus and five bein bros] Five and Klaus aren’t as different as the others think.

Don’t You Cry For Me [not rated. klaus centric. good sister allison] Allison has returned to California for a few days, needing to get back to her life. She then got her hands on the many letters her siblings wrote her over the years and, having recently reunited with them, decided she’d finally read them. She wished she’d read them sooner

Dropped My Cassette Tape in the Bathtub  [not rated. klaus centric. good hargreeves being good] Klaus is getting really tired of getting kidnapped. 0/10 would not recommend.

Eudora Explains it All  [not rated. hargreeves family shenanigans] Eudora and Diego need a little help on a case, thankfully Diego knows someone who can talk to the dead.

Friends, I Too Feel the Temptation to Jump Aboard Passing Freight Trains and Journey to a New Life, but We Haven’t Thought It Through [not rated. klave. agoraphobia. typical hargreeves family nonsense] After getting sober, Klaus found a new way to cope with the ghosts.

I Took a Week Off Work And My Brain Didn’t Know What to Do With That, Clearly [not rated. klave. happy ending. apocalypse but like nah] Dave is shot and dies a week into Klaus’ trip in Vietnam, when they’re still barely more than just strangers. Somehow, it doesn’t change a thing between them and the two still fall in love all the same, even with Dave being a ghost now. But it changes other things.

Let The Fire Breathe Me Back Into Life [not rated. klave. afterlife. feral!dave] Klaus doesn’t only meet Reginald when he dies. He’d thank God for that, but she had nothing to do with it.

Party Tattoos [not rated. klaus centric. pre-series] Vanya gets a visitor late at night, and comes to realize she never truly understood Klaus after all.

Put Your Records On  [not rated. wip. klave] Klaus and Dave get their happily ever after.A story in four parts.

Scattered and Lost  [not rated. klave. good hargreeves being good] Diego finds Klaus in a bad way and decides right then and and there that he was going to help his brother. Klaus meanwhile is too busy worried about Dave, who is missing.

Status Quo [not rated. klaus centric. typical hargreeves family nonsense] Klaus and Luther make a bet.Turns out, it wasn’t a guaranteed win like Luther had expected.

The Glitter, Glass, and Blood [not rated. klaus centric. fives cares about klaus as god intended] Five is sitting next to Klaus in front of the MeriTech building and actually listens as Klaus talks about the osso buco guy.

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A Friend of Mine [not rated. klave. vietnam. time travel shenanigans] Phil had befriended Klaus when he time traveled to Vietnam, now in 2019 he gets to talk to his friend again. 

Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) [not rated. klave. parent!klaus. no powers au] Klaus finds the one person he’s willing to get sober for: his baby boy, Jackson.

five times fics (mostly about klaus if we’re being honest about ourselves, which we are) [not rated. klaus centric. typical hargreeves family nonsense]  listen sometimes y'need some wholesome fluffly humor. so many angsty fics out there. we all need to smile from time to time and as one of those writers who writes those angstsy fics it is nice to write the wholesome fluffy humor so here y'go my friends   

I’ll Dance Til I Die [not rated. klave. klaus centric. typical hargreeves family nonsense]  Klaus is a Ghost Empath. He doesn’t like it very much. The Ghosts Do.

Life in the City  [not rated. wip. klaus centric. typical hargreeves family nonsense] Klaus befriends an older Italian man while he’s a young homeless drug addict. It was honestly one of the best decisions he’d ever made.

Like Real People Do  [not rated. wip. klave. good hargreeves being good] Klaus deafens himself and his life gets so much better. His siblings have mixed feelings about this.

Prepare for Boarding  [not rated. klave. good hargreeves being good] Klaus has been mistreated in the past, but Dave wants to make up for it, wants to keep him safe and make sure he’s loved.

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**My Self Rec Post!**

Hey guys! This is my post recommending my own stories that I feel you should check out! I don’t have a ton, so I’m just going to list all of them.. lol

I do have other stories I’m planning on writing as well, so if any of these peak your interest, definitely keep checking back for more!

**AS A WARNING: Most of my fics are pretty angsty/whumpy (that’s why I included the gif above haha)...I’ll add TW’s per story as a recommend though! So don’t worry!

Please, I hope you’ll enjoy! :)

My Multi-Chapters:

1- I’m Not Okay

Rated T - 16 chapters - 43,966 words - COMPLETE.

Summary- They stopped the apocalypse. Unfortunately for Klaus, that didn’t mean things would change for the better. Even though he felt he put forth his best efforts, his family evidently did not. When withdrawal symptoms bare down hard on Klaus, his family doesn’t seem to notice. Or, they simply don’t care. When time goes on and his symptoms only seem to get worse, Klaus is suddenly faced with the harsh realization that maybe this is more than just withdrawals...maybe he’s not okay.

TW: Major Character Death/Vomiting/Withdrawal/Terminal Illness/Cancer

NOTES: This was the first story I wrote for this fandom and the first story I had written in 10 years. It’s a little rusty, but overall I am extremely proud of this! (Warning though, it is pretty sad.) Hopefully all of the tender family bonding moments help offset all of the sadness!

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2- The Only Hope For Me Is You (Sequel/Alternative Timeline to I’m Not Okay)

Rated M - 19/20 Chapters - 97,295 words - INCOMPLETE (See Notes!)

Summary- What if Dave never died in Klaus's arms? What if instead, he convinced Klaus to quit taking drugs while still in 1968; 'Causing him to start his withdrawals while he was still in Vietnam. If Klaus was too sick to fight, he and Dave would have never made it to the front lines. Meaning they discovered Klaus's cancer sooner—Was it soon enough to save his life?

TW: Major Character Death/Cancer/Vomiting/Withdrawal

NOTES: This story will top out over 100K words once it is complete and **The final chapter will be posted THIS Saturday** So don’t let the non complete tag worry you!! This story was my way to solve the ending in its predecessor. Just know that with this one—Not everything is always as it seems! You’ll know what I mean when you read the final chapter! Still sad, but adding Dave into the mix adds a lot of opportunity for tender moments, too! I personally prefer this one over I’m Not Okay. This one can be read as a stand alone piece, but it is technically a sequel!

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3- What I Never Knew I Always Wanted

Rating: T - 12/17 Chapters - 79,837 words - INCOMPLETE (See notes!)

Summary: Klaus always knew he was a fuck up; a low life good for absolutely nothing drug addict. He’d made plenty of mistakes in his life, and he accepted it. But when his casual Tuesday fling winds up pregnant and doesn’t want the baby, Klaus can’t just abandon it...can he?

Klaus’s entire perspective on life changes when that sweet, innocent bundle of joy gets placed into his hands. In that moment Klaus knew he needed to change. He needed to be a better person, he needed to be there wholly for his daughter.

His past mistakes needed to be just that: Mistakes from his past; his present and future now solely revolved around keeping his precious baby girl happy, healthy and safe.

TW: Withdrawal/Ghosts/Mentions of Drug and Alcohol abuse/ Mentions of Past Physical Abuse/ Mentions of attempted Suicide

NOTES: This is a daddy!Klaus fic! My first attempt at major fluffy-ness (and I feel that I shockingly succeeded with this! It’s a miracle! Lol) but don’t let the adorable baby subject matter throw you, it is my story, there’s still plenty of angst! 12 of 17 chapters have been posted, but I’ve already written 14 chapters and I have them all entirely planned out already! I write every day guys, and I post every week, so you’ll never have to worry about me not completing a story. If I publish it, it’s getting finished. I promise!!

**This is my personal favorite story of mine I’ve written!**

I also have decided that this story will be part of a series with additional one shots that look into special little moments in their lives and there will be a SEQUEL for this one as well! :)

My One Shots:

1- Wore My Heart Out On A Chain Around My Neck (And Now It’s Missing)

Rated: T - 4,476 words - COMPLETE

Summary: Klaus would hold onto Dave’s dog tags; clutch them firmly within his palms and run his fingertips over the cool stainless steel memorabilia, cherishing the sensation of Dave’s name carved within the insignia against his skin. This was all that he had left of him; his only tether to Dave left in this world—his most treasured possession.

Or, Dave’s dog tags break, and so does Klaus.

TW: PTSD/Brief description of past drug and alcohol abuse/ Underlying health problem/Hinted Major Character Death

NOTES: This is my first installment for my Bad Things Happen Bingo card. Prompt: Most Treasured Possession Destroyed. This one I really went for it you guys, I’m extremely proud of how it turned out. There’s an unexpected twist to make this prompt all the more heart wrenching! I hope you’ll enjoy it!

2- Their Secondhand Smoke

Rated: T - 5,821 words - COMPLETE

Summary: Had he been in his right mind perhaps he would have realized his mistake, recognized the fact that the absolute worst thing to do when faced with a grease fire is to throw water on it, but unfortunately his brain was muddled by an abundance of drugs.

Instantly the flames expanded, reaching higher towards the rafters as it engulfed the entire kitchen in fire.

TW: Heavy drug use/Vague OR referenced sexual actions/Being trapped

NOTES: This is my second installment for my Bad Things Happen Bingo card. Prompt: Trapped in a burning building. This one is a bit of a scary subject matter as you could imagine guys! I tried to delve into the fear aspect and also somehow squeeze some tender stuff in.

**I plan on having a blackout card for my bingo! So if you like these, definitely keep checking back on AO3!

**My Username is TwistedIllusions**

Thanks for checking these out! If you read any of them, I would absolutely love to hear from you! So feel free to leave me a comment with your thoughts and opinions if you’d like! I sure would adore it!! ❤️

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TUA Feedback Fest - A (Belated) Rec List for March 30, 2020

Greetings, everyone! Due to life, I was unable to type up a post for yesterday, so here’s a (belated) post for Monday, March 30th. Under the cut you’ll find some recs that are on my To-Read List, but for various reasons, I have not sat down to read them (or in some cases, each installment) in their entirety just yet. However, I know I’ll thoroughly enjoy these once I do. ~Lem

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💜💜AU Fics! (+ two I don’t know how to categorize) 💜💜

So I’m saying they are AU, and they are, but canon-divergent AUs. Apparently I don’t read many full divorced-from-the-source AUs. (Some other folks have recced ones like that for the @tuafeedbackfest so do go check that out!) These ones are all ‘what if it was like the show but’ kind of AUs, and I love seeing what changes and what stays the same.

hell of a feeling though by @agreatperhaps12

Klaus is never quite sure, until the moment he’s getting punched in the face, whether the ghost of Ben following him around is anything more than an extremely vivid hallucination.

Rating: NR⎜Word Count: 46k+⎜Complete (4/4)

This fic is extremely great. It starts pre-series, and then the third chapter tracks an alternative timeline to the show (although only slightly as the AU is only slightly divergent - until all of a sudden it is most definitely Not) and the last chapter is for the after. Basically every setting you could possibly want, and it’s all written so well with such great characterization of Klaus. It made me scream plenty.

If Your Life Won’t Wait by queenbaskerville

Klaus somehow, somehow, figures out how to manifest himself visibly, as some sort of shade passing as a living man, to talk a high-as-a-kite Luther into going home. He doesn’t touch Luther once, and his ghostly self feels a bit lightheaded, but he walks beside Luther until they’re back to the Academy and Luther has fallen asleep on the staircase.

“I’ll tell him I’m dead when he’s sober,” Klaus tells Ben. “I’ll do it.”

“Okay,” says Ben.

Klaus doesn’t.

aka, When Klaus dies on the dance floor, God kicks him out of the afterlife. But she only kicks him out halfway.

Rating: T⎜Word Count: 23k+⎜Complete (7/7)

I love love this fic! It’s such a neat idea, and the changes it makes in the timeline of the show - even though it only diverges from the end of 1x07 - are pretty huge. And then we get some family bonding via dealing with some incredibly hard to handle things, like Klaus being dead, and all the difficult but important conversations sorting that out entails. 

can i dream for a few months more? by intheflowers

A woman dreams of the child she gave away. It’s fine as long as she can deny what she sees. (When she finally wakes up to the reality of the situation it will be too late.)

On the other side of the world, a boy dreams of a woman he does not know. While he’s too young to understand who she really is, one day he’ll figure it out. (And by then he will have other things to worry about. By then, all he’ll really want is a safe place to sleep.)

Or: I go wild with the idea of Klaus having the power to dreamwalk and meeting his birth mother that way.

Rating: T⎜Word Count: 33k+⎜Complete (3/3)

I’m aware that I need to read alllll of what intheflowers has written, based on all the other recs I’ve seen, and also based on the fact that this fic is so amazing. Just gorgeously written, and such a cool concept that leads to both the painful hurt and the beautiful comfort. I literally just finished reading it but I have to read it again and leave loooong comments.

learn to live with it by Princex_N

Klaus doesn’t know where to start and doesn’t know how to stop.

He’s the only one who tries to get used to it, because what other choice does he have? The others still wait, still ask when he’ll be done playing around, still yell at him for being annoying, but no one seems to stop and realize that there’s nothing he can do about it.

Klaus gets used to it, but he’s the only one who does.

Rating: G⎜Word Count: 4k+⎜Complete (1/1)

A fic where Klaus has Tourette’s Syndrome, set pre-series (although there’s more fic in the series, including one with Allison set in the post-not-apocalypse). I haven’t seen anyone rec this one I don’t think but it’s really unique and it fits very well into the established facts of canon.

Comes And Goes (In Waves) series by hujwernoo

The apocalypse happens, Five arrives in the rubble, and his entire family is dead.

However, one of them has power over ghosts. And even if being dead seriously sucks sometimes, Klaus is going to be there for his brother.

There is an abundance of fics about Klaus surviving the apocalypse and being there for Five, and while I love those fics I wanted to up the angst factor by about 1000. So here’s one where he doesn’t survive, and is still there anyways.

I know everybody has recced this, but that’s just because it’s that good. A massive labor that absolutely becomes its own universe by the time it starts tangling up with canon in its 8th installment, ‘for the ones who try again.’ I’ll make special mention of the 6th one, ‘for the ones who need a hand,’ because I really like that one particularly. You’ve got to read in order on this one though!

The next two fic are ones that I really wanted to give mention to, but couldn’t fit in with any of my other lists:

once there was a tree by @giugiubees

She looks at the display on the wall. She’s dusted it countless times. There are many prized insects pinned within the gleaming glass case. The insects are rare or extremely beautiful or both. So it is odd, that in the corner, sits an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. It is yellow, but it doesn’t shine for attention. It sits quietly in its death, seemingly content to have simply lived at all. Grace blinks.

A fix-it where they dig Grace out of the ruins of the mansion but her memory files are damaged. Or, a robot coma dream sequence type of thing.

Rating: T⎜Word Count: 2k+⎜Complete (1/1)

It’s a lot of feelings about Grace and being a mom and being a robot and it’s written in this beautiful dreamlike way. There’s little moments of the Hargreeves as kids, and some moments set during the series, and it’s all swirled around together. It will break your heart. 

Out of the Woods by bob-fish

In 2003, they stopped the clock on the apocalypse. Back in 2019, they find they’ve accidentally declared war on the people who want it restarted. Can the Hargreeves siblings survive another full assault by the Commission? Can they escape to Five’s remote and inadequately-sized safehouse for long enough to come up with a plan? Do they stand a chance against the might of the Temps Aeternalis Commission? Will they all murder each other first? And why the hell did nobody think to bring toilet paper?

Rating: M⎜Word Count: 60k+⎜In-Progress (5/7)

I really have to go back and re-read and properly comment on this fic! It’s unfinished and hasn’t been updated in a while, but maybe enough people going and reading and commenting will help get us the last two chapters! A post-apocalypse fic that sends the Hargreeves on a plotty road trip/on the run. Very interesting and cool and even though I don’t have a good list for it, I couldn’t let the even pass without mentioning this one!

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Self-Promo Post!! 💜

One heart for self-love on this self-promo list. I am pretty proud of the fic I’ve written in the past year for this fandom. My first ever foray into writing anything close to romance, my first ever writing for a ship - also my longest finished piece ever! I wrote a fluffy (by my standards) AU that is in a totally different world than canon, just for fun - all things I haven’t really done before. 

The support I got from the fandom is the only reason I wrote more than the first fic I published, and I’m so happy I did. I love you guys all so much, and I’m so happy that I’ve been able to create and share stuff that you enjoy!

Bad Stuff in a Bad Place - Rating: T⎜Word Count: 8k+⎜Complete (1/1)

The title is basic but also it’s fairly descriptive of what you’ll get in here. Pre-series, in his time with the police academy, Diego is out on a drugs bust and comes across Klaus. It’s a bad place, with some bad stuff.

Another Stupid Pointless Mission - Rating: T⎜Word Count: 12k+⎜Complete (1/1)

The sequel to Bad Stuff. Takes place a week or so later, and this time is from Klaus’ pov. It fills in some of the details that aren’t a part of the first one, and still is primarily about Diego and Klaus’ relationship during their pre-series years. 

(I might still write more in this series, basically a fic about each of the kids in this time period, and if I do, it’s Luther up next!)

Everyone Gets Here Eventually - Rating: M⎜Word Count: 47k+⎜Complete (3/3)

Dave is in the afterlife, and he’s waiting for Klaus to join him, but it’s taking a long while. You might notice it is Long. It was quite a project for me but I’m pretty happy with it! Featuring pining, longing, and yearning, and my absolute favorite pairing ever.

There’s a Reason They Don’t Make Punching Bags Out of Wood - Rating: M⎜Word Count: 4k+⎜Complete (1/1)

I’m pretty fond of this little fic! Basically Klaus has a complete break from reality, because landing in the midst of the Vietnam War after the kidnapping and torture and withdrawals? Feels pretty unreal. He’s not sure if this is more torture or if he’s dead and in hell or what, but he’s ready to play chicken with the universe to find out. Except. There’s this guy Dave.

Legwarmers -  Rating: T⎜Word Count: 8k+⎜Complete (7/7)

My ballet au, the closest attempt to fluff that I can offer you. Klaus and Dave are paired in The Nutcracker that’s put on in Klaus’ hometown, a city he hasn’t returned to in years. There is flirting, there is misunderstandings, there is dancing.