#ghostsinmachine fics

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Shadow in the Sun

author: ghostsinmachine pairing: macklin celebrini/will smith (b. 2005) chapters: 2/2 word count: ~17k rating: explicit tags: canon compliant; friends with benefits; smut; will smith hockey is Going Through It

They didn’t do this often. Only when Mack wasn’t in the mood to find a girl, and only when they were on the road, and only when they were roommates. Any more effort than that meant they were trying to make something happen, turn it into a thing, and that wasn’t what this was. There was an element of plausible deniability still; a lot of things had to fall into place first.

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Soldier Boy, Bleed

author: ghostsinmachine pairing: macklin celebrini/will smith (b. 2005) chapters: 3/3 word count: ~38k rating: explicit tags: friends to lovers; under-negotiated kink; canon-typical self-awareness (that is to say: none)

“Sit the fuck back down,” Will snaps and Mack—inexplicably—does exactly that.

It’s as if his strings have just been cut. He goes down so goddamn hard it isn’t even funny. One second, he’s upright, and the next… well. He’s back on his ass. He stares down at his own knees in dismay like they can somehow explain why they’d just given out. “Uh,” he says, mortified.

“Huh,” says Will, in an entirely different tone of voice.

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An Insurmountable Thing

author: ghostsinmachine pairing: shane hollander/ilya rozanov chapters: 2/4 word count: ~10k rating: explicit tags: canon compliant; internalized homophobia; pining; really a love letter to shane hollander (beautiful neurotic flower); filling in the gaps in the early canon timeline; featuring nervy teen shane in a saw trap of his own making!

The terrible thing was that Shane wanted Rozanov about as much as he ever remembered wanting anything, maybe even more.

"Shane Hollander was not a risk taker. This was true of him in childhood into adolescence then adulthood, and it would probably be true of him even beyond that. He had mostly gotten over the vague and pervasive shame of being unable to ever let his hair down, so to speak, and had also mostly figured out how to take all jokes in stride so that he was laughing with instead of getting laughed at."

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Real Slick, Nervy

author: ghostsinmachine pairing: macklin celebrini/will smith (b. 2005) word count: 5k rating: mature tags: idiots to lovers; that is if 'lovers' is achieved by having an extremely charged fingers-in-mouth moment

Mack runs the pad of his thumb along Will’s bottom lip where it’s all swollen and scabbed over, touch so light that Will can hardly feel it. “This hurt?” He murmurs. “Looks like it does.”

(Mack can be a real freak sometimes. Unfortunately, Will’s into it.)