in the new year (swingers au)
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When you force your eyes to focus on him, his expression is hard to parse. You recognize pieces of it from yourself-- you know smug when you see it-- and, startlingly, pieces from Tom. This is the look he gives you, sometimes, when you get desperate and crawl in his second-story window in the middle of the night: annoyed, appraising, disturbed. You're crowding him again, trying to lean into the familiarity. You rest your forehead on his shoulder and wrap your arms around his waist. There is a whine building in the back of your throat that you're trying to choke down.
"You should fuck me. I think you should fuck me. Do you want me to beg? I can do that. Don't you want to punish me?" You're back to pawing at his chest. "God, I'd want to if I were you. I'd want to kick the everloving shit out of me."
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Or: Red Leader goes back in time to fuck himself, complete a time loop, and remember why he tries to forget college.
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- Part 1 of in the new year (swingers au)
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"Less flirting, more explaining," older you says. He's started to put your clothes away, quicker and more methodically than you would. The sight of you, twenty years older and a soldier, sorting and balling socks, makes you feel an emotion you didn't know you had. Something between nostalgia and absurdist humor. You sit down on the floor and, after a second, both Tords move to follow suit.
Older Tord takes a long drag off his cigar and gives you a winsome smile. The sunset light from the window paints him golden.
"Welcome to the time loop," he says.
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Tom and Tord are college students, sworn enemies, and possibly fucking on the side. Red Leader and his bodyguard are on a sex vacation into the past with complex spatiotemporal consequences that shape the future military state. Double determination and chill?
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- Part 2 of in the new year (swingers au)
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You don't know how he does this to you, present and future. You don't know how he keeps ripping your feelings out of your stomach like they're just so many intestines. He's the only person who has ever been able to do this to you and you think you hate him for it. You want to hate him for it. You're not sure if you could manage to feel something that simple about Tom, present or future. While you agonize, he stands up and crosses the short distance between you. His hand grazes your cheek and your entire body jolts.
"Easy," he says, and you're suspended between the urge to shove him away from you and the urge to lean further into his hands and cry. He's got such large, strong hands; maybe you've finally found someone strong enough to hold you together. "It's okay."
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Tom comes back in time to help soothe Tord's anxieties, setting the time loop into motion. Set during chapter 3 of In The New Year.
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- Part 3 of in the new year (swingers au)