millie’s long list of malex fics | The Lost Decade by irolltwenties (Shenanigans) / @irolltwenties
Late August in New Mexico sat like a wet wool blanket over the mesa, weighted and uncomfortable heat leeching the color from the world. It was narrowing down to the points of contact, the bright notes of near pain where his bare skin touched the metal of the truck bed. The blanket was thick, rumpled, and necessary under them. The sun had set an hour ago, taking the lancing white rage of the desert with it, leaving the heat like an afterthought, like a kiss after a kiss. It lingered and pressed against him where he lay, panting and slick with sweat.
Alex Manes had grown up in Roswell. He knew the heat. He knew the way it would burnish him in the summers, crisping him golden with the paler tan lines around his hips. It was an old friend.
They weren’t going to talk. They weren’t going to talk about this. There wasn’t time.
Alex and Michael had a decade to fill in. [Meagn] took some liberties.
comment: the lost decade haunts me, and meagn’s take on this in-between time is seared into my brain. with a range of soft, angsty, devastating malex chapters, alongside the exploration of alex’s various (non-canon but i wouldn’t mind if they were) love interests throughout the decade. and even those chapters are interspersed with devastating malex crumbs. meagn’s fic fills the holes in my heart that the idea of the lost decade left in it. i must have read this a thousand times. this is sort of hopeful, and it fits into the greater narrative of Til the Night, but be aware that it’s not a fluffy malex fic!
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