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let's meet in the purgatory of my hips by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
28 Nov 2024
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It was very possible that this counted as a form of masochism, letting himself be alone with Adam.
He followed Adam further into the field, trailing just a few steps behind him and admiring the gentle awe radiating from him. It seemed like everything in the field, like Cabeswater itself, was leaning into Adam’s warmth, sunflowers rotating to follow the path of the light. Ronan couldn’t deny doing the same thing himself.
“I didn’t even know this place was here.” Adam said, as though any of them could solidly pinpoint the geography of Cabeswater without asking the forest itself for directions. Though, of course, Adam had his own special connection with the place. Maybe he could find his way around better than the rest of them, “How did you find it?”
Ronan made a non-commital noise in the back of his throat and shrugged, not saying anything so he didn’t have to lie.
[AKA, they stop being idiots and finally make some confessions]
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“I didn’t think I’d see you here.” Ronan said, “Ain’t you supposed to be doing whatever it is country stars do?”
Adam shrugged, “Probably. I like bein’ here though. Let me buy you a drink?”
It sounded almost suspiciously like a line, but Adam hadn’t given any indication of this being anything more than a friendly call, so he just shrugged and scooched to the side so Adam could shoulder his way into resting his arms on the bartop. This did, also, make sure that they were pressed firmly side-to-side.
Was it just his imagination, or was Adam trying to find ways to get close to him? Surely it had to be his imagination, just wishful thinking, because he’d never been anything but an asshole to Adam since he’d met him.
But he was here. And he seemed to be here intentionally. And he was leaning against the bar because he was buying Ronan a drink.
[AKA you can not stop me from writing music AUs unless you kill me]
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(Fame) Makes Him Loose, Hard to Swallow by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
10 Sep 2024
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“Why is this such a big deal to you?” Adam hissed. Ronan could feel Adam’s hand like a brand through the thin fabric of his shirt. They were entirely alone, in the corridor that led toward Ronan’s room and music studio - the doors to which were both firmly locked, so no one would linger around - and all of Ronan’s thoughts were bad. Adam continued on, “Why can’t you just let it go? You hate me. Act like it.”
He’d never hated Adam. His heart was just the worst kind of weapon, sharp-edged and mean and willing to cut anyone that fell on it, cruel in the way that harmed him more than anyone else. He didn’t know what to do with himself, ever.
He took the time to think to himself, 'this is the worst thing you’ve ever thought of doing, Lynch.'
[AKA Adam and Ronan are rival musicians that never hate each other. If you could call that tension between them 'hate', anyway.]
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- Part 1 of (Fame)
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Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
03 Aug 2024
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Adam Parrish learned, at a very early age, to never trust a rodeo boy. They were self-entitled pricks that thought they were better than the lowly commoners of the rural South, and would take what they wanted without asking. Usually while leaving a string of broken hearts behind them.
Adam was adamant that he would not become one of those broken hearts.
But somehow Ronan Lynch is different. He, at his essence, cares. It's not a bad thing that he seems to openly hate the other rodeo boys, either, with the only exception being eclectically wonderous Gansey.
It starts off with a kiss.
A kiss that leads to a hook up.
Which leads to another hook up.
And another.
And Adam thinks he can let himself have this - Ronan's body and his bite - with nothing else. No strings attached. Friends with benefits, with more 'benefit' than 'friend'.
But nothing's ever that simple, is it?
[AKA, the cowboy rodeo fic that everyone deserves but no one wanted to ask for]
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it's all tennis, except for tennis, which is sex by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
29 Jul 2024
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Tennis, Adam thought, was what life was really about. There was nothing that could beat the exhilaration of the adrenaline pumping through his system. Nothing could counter the thrill of the fast-paced game that slowed itself in his mind until he could calculate the angle that he needed to hit everything on.
Tennis was second nature to him. It was his game. It pumped through his blood, occupied his every thought.
He knew Ronan felt the same. Tennis was his everything as well. It’s why they worked so well together - their styles were so contrasting but their passion was the same.
Adam hit the ball as it came hurtling toward him, angling it just so that it hit outside the court on the second bounce.
Ronan’s hand was ruffling his hair in congratulations before they even heard the ringing announcement of Ad-Out.
One more point. One more point, and that’s all they needed to get the two point advantage they need, to fucking win.
[AKA the 'Challengers' AU I desperately needed]
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- Part 9 of TRC one shots
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He wanted to join the frat. He wanted to get fucked. There was no real objection to it, apart from it being sprung on him. But he’d rationalised it in his head, practically made a damn pros and cons list and everything had come up on the affirmative. He was going to let himself get gangbanged to join a fraternity.
His stomach flipped with nerves, but he slid onto his knees and came to kneel between Gansey’s spread legs where he was sitting on the armchair.
Behind him, somebody whistled, and Adam heard Henry mutter, “Someone’s eager.”
[AKA I'm a degenerate who wrote Adam getting fucked to join a frat. I'm already going to confession, don't worry.]
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- Part 8 of TRC one shots
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It's Always Sunny in Henrietta by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
28 Jun 2024
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“Ronan -” Gansey sighed, “Try not to scare off my new employee before he starts his first shift. Please.”
Ronan slammed back the rest of his beer and left the bottle on the table with a heavy thump, “If he can’t handle it he shouldn’t fucking be here.”
With that, he got up and stomped through a door, disappearing.
“Sorry about that.” Gansey said immediately, “Ronan’s… well. You have to get used to him.”
“He’s an asshole.” Blue said without hesitation, “But we all are. But we’re all self-aware, so… Ronan’s just more of an asshole than the rest of us, because he tries to be.”
[AKA the It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia AU that no one asked for]
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Adam wondered who had broken Ronan’s heart. It had been so long since they’d seen each other, and Adam didn’t think he’d really have that much of a long-term effect on Ronan’s life.
He couldn’t really help the twisting feeling of jealousy making home in his chest, but he didn’t really feel good about it. It had been seven years since they’d dated. He really should be over it by now.
(And yet-)
[AKA, two high school exes run into each other after seven years and fall in love with each other all over again]
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the kid was alright but it went to his head by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
16 Apr 2024
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“What are you doing here?”
“Trying to talk to you, obviously.” Ronan said. He straightened up and turned to face Adam. His face was gaunt, but not as gaunt as Adam had assumed it would be.
He wouldn’t lie, Ronan looked rough. His cheeks were slightly hollow, and there were dark bags under his eyes, but he didn’t look dead. Just exhausted.
“Why?”
Ronan shrugged, and started toward Adam’s window to look out of it, moving the curtains for a better view.
“You’re the only one who can hear me. It’s been ages since I’ve talked to anyone.”
“It’s been two days.” Adam said, and then, “You can’t talk to other ghosts?”
[AKA, Adam falls in love with his best friend's dead best friend]
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(Fame) Makes Him Loose, Hard To Swallow [ON HIATUS - CHECK UPDATE CHAPTER] by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
14 Apr 2024
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“Jesus, you look like you’re planning my murder.” He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees, “Okay, okay. It’s Ronan’s party.”
“I’m not going.”
Blue made a pained noise, “I know you don’t like him but please just come with me. Just this once. You know how much he hates parties. Declan’s making him throw it for his birthday. He’ll probably get pissed and demand everyone leave under threat of violence an hour in. Y’know, like he did last time.”
[ON HIATUS, IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REWRITTEN]
“If it were that simple, Blue, I’d go with you. But he hates me. He wouldn’t let me in the door.”
“I doubt he’s gonna be personally checking everyone that walks in...” Blue said, looking vaguely guilty, “C’mon, please? I won’t ask you for anything ever again.”
“That’s a lie and we both know it.”
“I won’t ask you for anything for a week?”
[AKA famous singer Adam is sure that rockstar Ronan hates him, mainly because he has mountains of evidence to support it. Ronan doesn't hate him. Ronan is in love him, but Adam doesn't know that.]
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“I don’t do press.” Ronan said harshly, cutting Adam off.
Adam bit down on his lower lip to stop himself snapping back at Ronan, calmed himself, and then said, “I only want a moment of your time. Please, I - I don’t want to be intrusive. Just a quote about the game, or the season. You’re-”
You’re my favourite player.
He cut himself off. He didn’t want to resort to begging, far too proud for that.
Ronan turned his head slightly, and from the corner of his eye Adam caught Dean Grey shake his head slightly.
Ronan sighed, turned back to Adam, “Listen, if you really want this interview, or whatever - find me during a break, or after the game. I don’t have time right now.”
That wasn’t a no. In fact, that was nearly definitely a yes.
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- Part 7 of TRC one shots
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“This place is so cool!” Blue yelled at her, and then downed her shot. Adam followed suit.
“Thanks! I own it!” She pulled a face, “I co-own it!”
“Whose the other owner?” Adam yelled. Someone pushed another drink into hands, and he took it.
Hennessy just nodded toward one of the other bartenders - biceps on display, the sleeves and midriff ripped off a Jack Daniels t-shirt, tight jeans, ink crawling up his back.
Familiar ink.
“Holy shit.” Adam shouted into Blue’s ear as Hennessy climbed back onto the bar, walking along the line of still blazing fire, putting it out with the thick soles of her platform shoes, “That’s that guy from Monmouth.”
Blue followed his gaze and raised her eyebrows, “The one that you always slobber over?”
“I do not slobber over him.” Adam sniffed, “I just drool a bit.”
[AKA, Ronan owns a bar where he dances on tables, Blue and Adam have a bet about who can have the most hook-ups, they fuck about it, and things go from there]
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let me hear you scream if you want some more by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
22 Jan 2024
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“I - Adam.” He was too proud of himself for the slight, almost untraceable blush on her cheeks, the way that she was breathing slightly erratically, “It’s not the right time of the month.”
Trivial. Absolutely trivial. None of that mattered. All that mattered was every point that they touched, the warmth blossoming in his soul, being joined-
Joined. What was more joining than-?
Maybe the Catholics got one thing right. The body and the blood. The goddamn Eucharist.
He kissed the side of her mouth. Lowly, like there was someone that could overhear them, he said, “Do you think I’m the kind of guy who cares about something like that?”
[AKA the Saltburn AU that nobody wanted but everybody deserved. Let Adam be a slut, he deserves it.]
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“You’re soaked, Lynch!” he exclaimed, wiping his fingertips off on his jeans, “Jesus. Why are you still sat here? Go get changed.”
“I’m fine.”
“You’re going to get sick.”
“Christ, it’s not that big of a deal.”
Adam raised disbelieving eyebrows at him, “If you can sit here and not shiver, then I’ll believe that.”
Ronan held some very hostile eye contact with him - luckily, Adam had spent enough time around him by now that its effect had largely worn off - as his entire body tensed, clearly trying not to shiver. It didn’t work, because a second or so later, another shiver wracked his body.
“There. Point proven.”
“Fine. I’m cold. Happy now?”
“Take your clothes off, Lynch.”
Ronan’s eyebrows shot toward his hairline, “We’re gonna need to get married before you can start making those kinds of requests, Parrish. I’m a man of God.”
[AKA Adam's heating breaks and he has to stay at the Barns. As always, him and Ronan are dumb and gay about it.]
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preach electric to the microphone stand by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
12 Dec 2023
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But he started to see through Adam’s facade.
He started to notice the way Adam’s eyes would always drift to one particular figure in the room.
At first, he saw it as fear, but as time progressed he started to see how foolish that initial assessment had been. It wasn’t fear. It was that heady mix of hate and lust.
His eyes were always on Ronan.Noah was sure that he didn’t realise how often his gaze trained itself to Ronan’s unmissable presence in a room. Every time Noah glanced over, the two were watching each other but pretending not to.
[AKA a collection of deleted scenes from IHD(AYSS) and BOAL(ANTOWA) that were in other perspectives, and some scene rewrites featuring different povs :)]
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- Part 3 of take this to your grave
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Flightless Bird, American Mouth by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
08 Nov 2023
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He was sure of only two things at the time:
1) He was about to get hit by a car. And it was probably going to hurt, which meant hospital bills that he couldn’t afford, and having to buy a new car because his little tri-coloured nightmare was surely going to get ruined.
2) Ronan Lynch was standing at the other end of the parking lot, beside Gansey’s obnoxiously orange Camaro, his face fixed in a mask of horror.
Except he hadn’t been, had he? Because Ronan’s shockingly cold hand had wrapped around Adam’s waist right at the last minute and had yanked him out of the way. There was no physically possible way for Ronan to cross the distance so fast, to get him out of the way.
[AKA it's twilight season babey!!!! pynch twilight au time]
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(show me how you) burlesque! by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
06 Sep 2023
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Adam said, “You could stay back here. Get a front row seat to the performance.”
Ronan froze. What did that mean? Did it mean anything? Was Adam just being friendly, or did he want Ronan to watch? It didn’t sound like flirting, but Adam was also looking at him like that, but Ronan could also just be reading into it and -
Another one of the dancers clapped Adam on the shoulder, making his costume of pearls clack together musically, “Come on, Adam, you’re on in three.”
[AKA a 'Burlesque' AU that tilts into full yearning and horniness]
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I'm Half Doomed (And You're Semi-Sweet) by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
05 Sep 2023
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That hadn’t been a lie - he wasn’t a liar, and everybody knew this - but it had been a half-truth. He didn’t care about scaring Adam off. He did find himself caring more and more if Adam was around, which was concerning.
What was more concerning, however, was the fact that he seemed physically unable to write anything that wasn’t about Adam.
Every song he’d scrawled after fever dreams woke him up at three in the morning were odes to Adam’s lightly freckles skin, to the worry lines already forming at his brow. Every bridge that got stuck in his head during long drives were sonnets to the throaty sound Adam made when he laughed, like he was surprised he was laughing. Every lyric related back to Adam in some way, and it was driving him out of his mind.
[AKA the prequal to 'Better Off As Lovers (And Not the Other Way Around', telling the tale of Ronan falling in love with Adam and being so repressed about it that the only outlet he has is writing songs about him]
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- Part 1 of take this to your grave
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Gansey handed off one of the lime green plastic rackets to Ronan, “You play. Since you’re our resident tennis player, and all.”
Adam blinked at him, momentarily confused, before remembering that Ronan used to go to tennis practice twice a week, every week. He used to play competitively. And then his dad died, and he’d stopped going to classes at all, and tennis practice apparently constituted a class.
Ronan took the racket like it was venomous, rolling over and over in his hand, testing the weight, “This isn’t tennis. This is like if a tennis ball fucked a a beanpole and they got up the duff.”
Adam raised his eyebrows, “Very visual, Lynch.”
Ronan sneered at him, “Come on, then, big guy. I challenge you to a swingball contest.”
[AKA, the gangsey goes camping, ronan is very good at tennis, and adam has some Realisations about himself]
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Better Off As Lovers (And Not The Other Way Around) by dealwiththedevil
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
05 Aug 2023
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Adam put his phone down and turned over, intending to actually go to sleep. He had a ten am class the following morning and, while he knew he’d be tired anyway, he thought that he should at least try for some rest.
But his mind kept going back to Ronan.
More specifically, it kept going back to Ronan’s songs.
He wondered how many were written about him, if any. He wondered how many subtle calls to him he’d missed, unconsciously dismissing them out of the gate because of Ronan’s seemingly blind dislike of him.
[AKA a band au, enemies (or were they?) to lovers that follows Adam and Ronan through their blind dislike to falling head over heels in love]
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- Part 2 of take this to your grave