"Took Ill on Thursday" (Buried on Sunday/Whiskey Echo) for ifreet

[malnpudl]

Title: Took Ill on Thursday
Fandom: Buried on Sunday/Whiskey Echo
Pairing: Augustus Knickel/Rollie Saunders
Rating: R
Word Count: ~6000
Notes: I can't thank ifreet enough for requesting this pairing. They were a joy to write. Many thanks, too, to tx_cronopio and keerawa for their fast and helpful betas. This is set perhaps a year or two after the events of

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[scriggle]

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Because I do!

Rollie/Gus is one my all time favorite C6D pairings. You've captured them both beautifully.

[thursdaynext_27]

This makes me want to rewatch Buried on Sunday tonight. This was great!

God or no, there was still this - the ability to be present for another human being, to listen with true attention and compassion, to offer the comfort and kindness of a gentle touch. If in the end it should turn out that he'd done nothing else worthwhile with his life, he could still die easy, because this one thing was enough.

Gus couldn't even manage to feel any shame at praying to a God he wasn't sure he believed in for a chance to get laid. He was that far gone.

[akite]

Oh! Oh! Oh! That was wonderful! I'm scrolling back through trying to find something to quote, but it was all so perfect.

[ifreet]

Oh, oh, YAY! This is terrific and perfect, and I'd like to make a coherent comment about it except that I'm completely travel-lagged -- but what a story to come home to! Thank you!

[sageness]

Awwww, Gus! I'd forgotten how much I loved this 'verse. :) Yay them!