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♦️ Three Days Until Dawn by chapscher | M, 54K, complete

Once every fifty years, Shane has three days to live as a human before the curse he is under changes him back into a ghostlike spirit. Shane devotes his time to figuring out his own mystery: who cursed him, why, and, most importantly, how he can finally break free. It just so happens that this year he has a visitor with him in the old house - a man who also is searching for answers to unsolved mysteries.

♦️ we could be lovers - would you lie with me? by idkspookystuff | E, 11K, complete

Maybe it starts with Ryan coming out. Maybe it starts when they sign the final paperwork to make their crazy idea a company. Maybe it starts way back in 2016, when a fresh faced intern asks Shane to help him out with his crazy ghost show.

It doesn’t matter, because regardless of how it starts, this is how Shane becomes aware of it.

or

shane learns he and ryan are dating and it turns his entire life upside down.

we'll build new traditions in place of the old by LexTheMoose | E, 11K, complete

A series of domestic traditions Ryan and Shane has been doing after two years of spending December together, but this year, it feels different for them both.

♦️ Why Don't You Get Up and Make Me? by Golden4278 | E, 33K, complete

A woman’s body is found at the bottom of a staircase with multiple blows to the head. Her husband was the only witness. Straightforward murder case, right? Prosecutor Shane Madej thinks so. Maybe it’s not so simple. Ryan Bergara is a defense attorney seeking redemption after a recent fall from grace. He knows his client is innocent, but how far is he willing to go to prove it? Can Shane protect Ryan from the truth while maintaining his professionalism? And can the two rivals keep their hands off each other in the process?

♦️ stay the night with the sinners by bodhirookes | E, 85K, complete

“Enjoy recess?”

Ryan doesn’t recoil, even as his stomach does. “Yes.”

Shane Madej doesn’t back down at the cold, one-worded answer. On the contrary, it makes his grin widen until Ryan can see every single one of his big, pointed teeth.

“I’m sure the City of Angels really does it for you, Bergmeister. Lots of innocent, impressionable souls. It’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet out there.”

“Sounds like it’s more your speed. And don’t call me that—I’ll light you up with Holy Fire before you even have the time to take it back.”

“Aw, don’t be like that,” Shane cooes, stooping closer. Ryan hates him, hates the icy-hot cavity that forms in his gut at the sight of his unruly hair and his black, black eyes. “L.A.’s big enough for the both of us, sweetheart. We can share.”

Or, Steven Lim, an angel, and Andrew Ilnyckyj, a demon, flee Heaven and Hell to be together, and Ryan Bergara, an angel, is forced to serve on the jury for their trial. He hates every single second of it, and Shane Madej, one of the oldest Greater demons around, is constantly there to remind him why Heaven and Hell should never be allowed to fraternize.

all the songs i sing (i wrote for you) by prettyboyrollins | M, 72K, complete

Ryan's job is driving him up a wall, so he finds a local dive bar to take his mind off how much it sucks.

He expects to find decent beer. What he doesn't expect to find is good company, and a band that just might change his life.

♦️ i'm yours (at least for a little while) by tanabubbles | M, 11K, complete

“Ryan,” Shane breathed, breaking the kiss.

Ryan wiped his mouth. “Y-yeah?”

“I think-” he hesitated, as if unsure about what he was going to say. “-We should stop practice here.”

Ryan swallowed hard. He didn’t want to agree. “Yeah,” he said quietly. He had to ask, though. “That-” he attempted, “-That was some pretty intense practice, buddy.”

Shane laughed uncomfortably, sinking back into his original spot on the sofa. “We’ll fool them, alright.”

Maybe they could fool themselves in the process.

Or,

Shane and Ryan found out there was an office bet going around. They take matters into their own hands.

Paper Wings by HydraNoMago | G, 12K, complete

“And please don’t call me Master Bergara, it’s so formal it makes me want to regurgitate whatever is left in my stomach.” With another easy smile, and his voice lowered, “Call me Ryan.”

Shane grinned back at him and clasped his hand, his heart missing a beat at the contact. “Shane,” he replied, and gave their joined hands a firm shake. “Shane Madej.”

Shane is a tutor in the Bergara household, who thinks he has found his place in the world; until he meets one Ryan Bergara.

Someone to Stay by carrieonfighting | T, 12K, complete

Ryan can't sleep at night, and Shane is an enigma

Where Every Wish Comes True (and you would be there too) by velarisstars | T, 31K, complete

It was completely normal to fly across the country with your best friend to celebrate Christmas with their family, right? At least, that's what Ryan kept telling himself everyday leading up to said trip with Shane. Everything would be fine. Normal. A simple vacation with Shane and his family in Chicago.

Until they get lost in feelings and everything begins to feel . . . not quite normal.

♦️ may your days be merry and bright by bodhirookes | G, 19K, complete

“Your turn, Ry Ry.”

Ryan looks down to find only one piece of paper remaining. “Wow, so much selection to choose from.”

“No time for your negativity, Scrooge. Your Secret Santa deserves a better attitude.”

Ryan sticks his tongue out, but takes the slip of paper. He’s loudly yelling Give me Jen, please please please give me Jen as he unfolds it, but he’s too busy begging for her to be truly prepared for what he ends up getting:

A simple but damning SHANE in Andrew’s scribbly handwriting.

Or, Ryan gets Shane for Secret Santa and has a subsequent breakdown about what to get him

♦️ Tucked In by RedLlamas | E, 16K, complete

When Shane's apartment complex is set to get fumigated, he asks Ryan if he can stay over, and receives an enthusiastic "yes!"

He doesn't expect Ryan to set him up in his own bed, but hey, choosers can't be beggars. It's not like it's gonna spark anything between them.

New and Used Boos by beethechange | M, 36K, complete

The guy’s teeth are large and even and starkly white—not Midwest white—and it’s then, at last, that Shane realizes who he’s talking to. Because that’s a distinctive smile. A famous smile.

It’s Ryan Bergara.

Ryan Bergara, star of Source of Fortune, the titular duke in Duke of Payback—rumored to be in the conversation for the lead in the Mission Impossible reboot, which Shane can’t even talk about, he’s so excited—is in Shane’s poky little bookshop, flipping through a book called Haunt Him, Honey: Ten Steps to Achieving a Spiteful Afterlife.

just what i needed, too by beethechange | E, 18K, complete

It’s not the house, exactly. It’s Shane in his black-and-red shirt and expectant expression, his fingers wound together in a subconsciously supplicating gesture like he’s waiting for the kind of lightning in a bottle that Ryan’s not sure he can deliver here a second time. It’s the pressure he hadn’t realized he’d put on this one shoot, this one night, until now it’s suddenly here and it’s the last one he’s ever gonna get and it’s not going to be enough. Because how could it be?

“This place sucks,” he tells Shane, and he hears the pleading tone in his own voice. He wants to leave.

He doesn’t want to leave, of course, because then it will be over.

(Or: all good things must come to an end.)

contrapposto by spoopyy | T, 7K, complete

Ryan works in a museum. Shane doesn't understand art. They fall in love.

Learning How Not to Die Inside a Little Every Time I Think of You by sequence_fairy | T, 3K, complete

“You’d have picked out an entire sentence from that,” Shane says to the spirit box. “And I’d have laughed at you and told you it was nonsense. And then—”

Shane closes his eyes because this is the part he hates remembering the most.

Shut up, Shane.

Shane hates the spirit box, but it's all he's got left.

i could see what you were reading by cooliohoolio | NR, 5K, complete

Shane wants to say I will be dead within the next year. He wants to say the flowers in my lungs are there because of you. He wants to say I’m in love with you and it’s killing me.

♦️ may your days be merry and bright by bodhirookes | G, 19K, complete

“Your turn, Ry Ry.”

Ryan looks down to find only one piece of paper remaining. “Wow, so much selection to choose from.”

“No time for your negativity, Scrooge. Your Secret Santa deserves a better attitude.”

Ryan sticks his tongue out, but takes the slip of paper. He’s loudly yelling Give me Jen, please please please give me Jen as he unfolds it, but he’s too busy begging for her to be truly prepared for what he ends up getting:

A simple but damning SHANE in Andrew’s scribbly handwriting.

Or, Ryan gets Shane for Secret Santa and has a subsequent breakdown about what to get him

Before the Mistletoe by ardentfilmgeek | G, 2K, complete

After an impulsive, drunken kiss with his best friend at a office party, Shane figures he could cheer himself up by watching the Kacey Musgraves Christmas Special with Kelsey. That's it. Nothing more, and nothing less.

But how's a guy supposed to do that when Ryan freaking Bergara is sitting right there.

With Bells On by MercurySkies | M, 5K, complete

Shane likes Christmas well enough. He likes the warm, spicy, alcoholic beverages, the tomfoolery of office parties, the time spent with loved ones. He likes it well enough, but as the first of the month rolls around the sense of dread, of anxiety, starts to simmer in the back of his mind, in the bottom of his stomach. There’s nothing pleasant about the flu, about the social demands of countless Yuletide get-togethers, the hyper vigilance required to avoid meeting Ryan under the mistletoe.

This Christmas I Gave You My Heart..but the very same day you tried to exorcise me by Queercoded_Villain | M, 5K, complete

Ryan used to laugh at the fan theories, he found it funny. Right until something happened on a location that he just can't get out of his mind.

Shane has no clue why his best friend acts so distant, so he invites him over for Christmas Eve, even though he knows something's not right.

The fic Where Ryan doubts himself and Shane for once just wants to believe.

you shine like silver in the sunlight by Anonymous | G, 2K, complete

Ryan laughs, even though that wasn’t funny at all. Shane can tell that he’s a little tipsy already, because he’s more giggly than usual, and he’s just—he’s absolutely endearing when he’s like this. He hates Ryan for making him feel this way—soft and completely infatuated.

♦️ Mistletoe by quackers | T, 4K, complete

There's only room for one very specific cat in Ryan's life.

Modern Rustic by beethechange | E, 21K, complete

Ryan’s thinking about Beauty and the Beast. He’s thinking about the wi-fi network, “Be Our Guest,” and about talking teapots and grumpy clocks and matchmaking candelabras. That’s how this cabin feels: not haunted, enchanted. Like when he leaves a room, the smart appliances start talking to each other, and they’re all talking about him.

“I think,” he says, finally, “that if we looked around this place hard enough, we’d find a rose underneath a—a glass thing, what’s it called—losing petals. Metaphorically.”