LONE STAR FIC MASTERLIST

the deep end | 41k | three chapters | e

WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.

Trouble finds TK and Carlos while celebrating their tenth anniversary on a secluded island in Mexico, where pressures from their life back home—and one mysterious hotel guest—threaten their idyllic vacation.

jet-setters | 3.9k | e

"Babe. You cannot seriously be wearing your swimsuit in the jacuzzi. It's bad luck." Carlos and TK take their second honeymoon, and TK is a spoiled brat (affectionate).

monday | 17.5k | m

"Don't do something you're going to regret." Carlos thinks of TK, dying or dead. TK in another cold, antiseptic hospital room. TK, alone and terrified. He can't just do nothing.

with a heatwave hanging over austin and tk's life in the grasp of a crazed bank robber, carlos recalls the moments of weakness that defined one summer during his youth. torn again between duty and conscience, carlos seeks to amend his past mistakes, even if it means risking his husband, his career, and his life.

and salt the earth behind you | 16.9k | m

He wants more than anything to feel that way again, seen in his entirety rather than as a collection of fragments. It’s why he brought Carlos here with him, after all; so he could see TK lit from another angle, so he could form a fuller picture. But every slant of light casts a shadow. And Carlos is not Gwyn. And as much as he might want to, there are dark places that TK can’t will himself to lead him into.

six months after his mother’s death, tk brings carlos to visit new york. when nothing is quite as he remembers it, tk must ask the question: has the city changed, or has he?

threadbare | 2.1k | t

Selfishly, he prefers it the other way around. He’d rather be the one twisted up on the cot, guarding the steady beep of someone else’s heart. Stitched up neatly, all his mess on the inside where it should be. He’s always been better with other people’s messes, anyway. His own tend to tangle, forming knots in his stomach that choke him like hairballs.

another 4.04 coda, because there can never be enough.

one of these days | 12.8k | e

He wants his second shot at a life with TK to be so brimming with happiness and light that the inevitable storm knocks him off his feet all over again. He’s so tired of planning for the worst; it’s turned him hard and cynical. This time, he wants to believe.