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  1. Public Bookmark 76

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    At least TK kept his promise to stay out of the ICU for a year.

    He had only made it as far as the emergency room, a fractured right wrist after a (fairly) friendly basketball game at the station. He didn’t even have to take any time off, and Carlos only made two sarcastic jokes on their way home from picking him up, playfully poking at the soft cast for good measure.

    Here they were, ten months into their marriage and he was waiting for Carlos to get out of emergency surgery.

    ***

    Carlos gets hurt on a call and has surgery. Soft hospital tarlos ensues.

    Bad Things Happen Bingo: Barely Conscious

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    17 Nov 2024

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    “You’ll be sporting one hell of a bruise, though.”
    Carlos nods. “Yeah, not my first rodeo,” he says through gritted teeth as he attempts to sit up.
    “Easy, easy,” Mitchell reaches out, her hands on Carlos’s shoulders as she helps him move.
    The sound of sirens start to fill the air around them as the ambulance gets closer and closer. Mitchell looks in that direction, seeing the ambulance park in the alley entrance.
    “Hey, Reyes. Isn’t your man a paramedic now?” She asks, her eyes not leaving the bus.
    “Yeah.”
    “Well, he’s not gonna be happy about this,” she replies, the bold 126 numbers stuck on the ambulance her biggest clue.

    Carlos takes a bullet to his vest when he and his partner chase a suspect, giving him a nasty and painful bruise. Cue TK working through his worry as he takes care of his injured boyfriend, in more ways than one.

    Bad Things Happen Bingo Prompt: Tarlos bruises

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    16 Nov 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 78

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    Carlos always feels at home working in the stables, where he’s accustomed to order and solitude. Except when a disturbance catches the attention of the king, Carlos is presented with an offer he can’t refuse: the prince’s guard.

    Prince Tyler is the last person Carlos wants to spend all his time with, but he commits to his duty of saving a life. Along the way, he learns that spending so much time with TK is dangerous all on its own.

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    21 Sep 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 69

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    After a comment about being good with horses leaves TK wondering what else he doesn’t know about his fiancé, he jumps on the opportunity to ranch sit for the night. The 24 hours they spend together out in rural Texas have them falling even deeper in love.

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    15 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 45

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    Carlos doesn't usually get sick, but it's been a tough year. The flu knocks him down hard the first winter of their marriage. TK helps.

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    14 Sep 2024

  6. Public Bookmark 29

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    The Catan Crew heads to Galveston for Tarlos’s beach bachelor party and everyone’s letting loose, especially Carlos. But when a drunk Carlos disappears and the gang splits up to find him, TK worries about his ability to be a good husband. Surrounded by the love and support of his friends, he finds he’s stronger than he knows.

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    “Oh! I know what’s going on,” Iris interjects, pointing an accusatory finger at Carlos from where she sits squeezed in between Mateo and Paul. “You don’t want the Silver Surfer to come out.”

    “The Silver Surfer?” TK asks, blinking between Iris and Carlos.

    “You’re getting married and you’ve never met the Silver Surfer?” The outrage in Iris’s voice is laced with too much delight to be sincere.

    “Um,” TK looks from Iris back to a mildly mortified Carlos. “Is this some sort of inside joke?”

    “Bro, is the Silver Surfer your dick?” Mateo asks.

    “Oh my god,” Nancy sputters while the rest of the group snickers.

    “The Silver Surfer,” Iris smirks, “is his drunk alter ego.”

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    14 Sep 2024

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  7. Public Bookmark 30

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    Carlos Reyes has a guilty pleasure...he enjoys reading romance novels. Part of the thrill is getting to find the trashiest books he can find just so he can read the bad euphemisms out loud to his husband. But he’s currently reading this series in particular that is causing him issues in the bedroom…..

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    13 Sep 2024

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    17 Aug 2024

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    Since that night, he felt numb, his world nothing more than a gray mess. But with Carlos?

    When he was with him, he actually felt alive again and there were bursts of color. Almost as if he wasn’t broken anymore…

    TK shakes his head as he stops abruptly to catch his breath. Looking up he pushes his hood off and lets the warm Texas rain soak him.

    He hasn’t questioned why Carlos makes him feel whole again. Hasn’t thought about it, really. It can’t be, because only being close to your soulmate heals injuries. And he is pretty damn sure that only applies to physical injuries, not something like a broken heart.

    ~*~

    A Tarlos Soulmate AU with the premise of “Being next to your soulmate heals injuries”

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    30 Jul 2024

  10. Public Bookmark 35

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    “Uncle Carlos? Who’s tummy did Lou come out of?”

    “Umm,” Carlos stutters. He sets Charlie on a dining room chair and gives TK a nervous look. “Well, he came out of his mama’s tummy I guess.” He pauses with a pensive look on his face and TK loves him even more for how much thought he’s putting into answering a chaotic four-year-old’s lawlessly illogical questions. “But Lou Two is a reptile, so he actually came out of an egg.”

    “Chickens come from eggs!” She yells, throwing her hands up in the air in excitement. “Is Lou Two a chicken?”

    “No,” Carlos says, grabbing her hands and shaking them. “He’s a lizard.”

    “Why isn’t he a horse?”

    “Umm. Because he’s a lizard?”

    “Is Uncle TK gonna have a baby in his tummy?”

    “Uh.”

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    Tarlos babysits four-year-old Charlie. While TK is preoccupied with her care, Carlos makes sure TK is cared for too.

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    10 Jul 2024

  11. Public Bookmark 54

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    Day 6 of 911 in the future week prompt AU - after all these years

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    after Alex dumped him on the day he proposed, his dad had voiced those concerns in more details.  “I never really believed he was your soulmate,” he’d said, stroking TK’s hair back from his face.  “You deserve someone who is, you know.  You’ll find them.”

    “No one ever wrote back to me,” TK admits, low and quiet.  “What if there’s no one for me, ever?”

    “There will be,” Owen says, and he’s so sure of it.  “There will be.”

    ****

     

    TK thought he’d never have a soulmate. Until he moves to Austin and his life changes in every possible way.

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    19 Jun 2024

  12. Public Bookmark 42

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    “It’s okay,” TK says. “We’ll just call my dad.”

    “Oh, no the hell we won’t.”

    “Carlos, he knows we have sex.”

    “There’s a difference between knowing it and seeing it.” He shudders. “The time he walked in on us when we were staying with him was bad enough.”

    “Oh,” TK shakes his head. “That barely even counts.”

    “Barely even counts?” Carlos scoffs, sitting back as far as he can. “Barely even counts? TK, I was knee deep inside you when he walked in.”

    “He said he didn’t see anything.”

    “My ass was in the air and your legs were slung over my shoulders,” he says flatly. “He saw.”

    Carlos and TK try handcuffs in the bedroom and they end up in an awkward position.

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    12 Jun 2024

  13. Public Bookmark 58

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    TK leans in closer and rests his forehead against Carlos’s cheek, understanding that this is hard for him. Carlos is so heart-warmed by the gesture that it gives him the courage to say, “I’ve been reading about demisexuality. It’s this thing where …”

     

    “I know what it means,” TK says softly, and thank God he does because Carlos isn’t sure he would have done justice to an explanation anyway. Not right now.

     

    “I think … maybe I am. That. I didn’t think I was anything other than gay but then I was reading and some stuff started to make sense.”

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    08 Jun 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 90

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    TK ends up sleepwalking at Carlos' apartment. Unfortunately, waking up disoriented feels a lot like coming down from a high but Carlos is there to love TK through it.

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    02 Jun 2024

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    “Officer down, I repeat, officer down! Send a bus to our location! And hurry!”

    The next second, the man looked up and TK raised his hands as he saw him reach for his weapon again.

    “I’m a paramedic!” he explained. “Let me help her?”

    ~*~

    Ever since the move to Austin, TK has been struggling with what to do in his life. When he stumbles upon an altercation between two cops and a perp, fate seems to finally show him a beacon of light.

    A Paramedic!TK AU

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    30 May 2024

  16. Public Bookmark 87

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    In the early hours of a mellow May night, TK Strand wakes Carlos Reyes and proposes to him. A baffled Carlos initially starts to talk TK down – as if assuming he might not mean it. This is the story of why.

    Or, 4 times TK accidentally proposed because Carlos is spectacular with his mouth, 1 time he genuinely proposed because Carlos is spectacular with his heart.


    He’s smug when he enters him. He gets to be. No finger-stretch is quite enough for Carlos’ thickness, and TK grits his teeth at the exquisite burn – so familiar, yet always a shock. Carlos catches TK’s mouth with his as he opens wide, his head tipping back. Carlos licks at TK’s lips, his tongue, his teeth. He loves the way he can make TK’s mouth open with words or make it open with silence. He can make TK’s mouth open like he can’t open it wide enough to get all the air he needs, or to let out the moan trapped around his heart. He loves TK’s mouth so much, he just has to kiss it, even if TK’s mind has bent sideways and he doesn’t have the wherewithal to kiss him back right now. On his desk at work, Carlos keeps a picture of TK grinning beautifully. It’s his favourite thing. That smile, that mouth. He thinks about it all the time.

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    19 May 2024

  17. Public Bookmark 8

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    He wishes a lot of things were different.

    Like, why was he such a good person?

    Why was he such a good husband? A good friend? A good partner?

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    Carlos surprises TK with a gift. He really wishes he hadn't.

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    01 Apr 2024

  18. Public Bookmark 59

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    “Do you think we should move Lou Two into the bedroom for the night?”

    “God, no.”

    TK looks over to Carlos, who’s sitting at the dining room table wearing his adorable glasses, scrolling through a recipe for baba ganoush on his iPad. He raises an eyebrow over the top of the tablet when TK makes a frustrated noise and starts pacing back through the room.

    “I just don’t want to freak them out.”

    “So you want to freak me out?”

    “Carlos! I don’t— whoa!” TK yelps when a strong arm reaches out and stops him in his tracks before he’s unceremoniously hauled down into Carlos’s lap with a huff.

    “Baby, why are you spiraling?” Carlos wraps an arm around his waist to hold him firmly in place. “This is gonna be fun, right? You’ve already met Marjan’s parents, her mom is, like, obsessed with you. What’s going on?”

    “I’m not worried about me,” TK says, taking a calming breath and adjusting himself so he’s fully facing Carlos and can put an arm around his shoulders. “I’m worried about Marj. This is the first time her parents are meeting Joe and she’s really nervous.”

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    31 Mar 2024

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    Carlos is certainly aware of TK Strand. He wasn’t aware the man had cycled through quite this many teams before being traded to the Dallas Stars. His reputation as a hot-head and a trouble-maker precedes him, but there are dozens of players like that in this league. Carlos has never considered Strand to be significantly worse than any of the rest of them, but maybe he just wasn’t paying close enough attention. The person described in the article he just read doesn’t exactly sound like someone Carlos should be thrilled about having as a new teammate.

     

    Or, the enemies-to-friends-to lovers Hockey AU that no one asked for but I was perhaps born to write.

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    18 Mar 2024

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    When TK receives a call from an old friend offering him a last minute invite to a wedding in Hawaii, he jumps at the chance to finally wrangle his fiancé into a vacation. Unfortunately, TK isn't the only old friend invited.

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    The fic where we say "why should they have to wait for their honeymoon to go to Hawaii?" Featuring TK Strand and Carlos Reyes being disgustingly in love, some interesting headcanons, some indulgent scenes and Alex finally working out that he probably shouldn't have shacked up with the spin cycle instructor.

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    18 Mar 2024

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