veterans

After Bucky was released from the hospital, it only took him a couple of weeks to give up on himself. Difficult to believe in any kind of future when the simple act of staying alive was almost too big an effort. Out the frosted window, across the street, there was a tiny homeless guy burrowing under an awning.

Lieutenant Steve Rogers has done all the right things. Graduated West Point at the top of his class. Earned a coveted spot as an infantry officer. Found the woman of his dreams. Everything is going exactly as planned. That is, until he accepts a platoon leader position for a unit deploying to Iraq, where he’s reunited with the ex-boyfriend he’d rather forget but never could. ——— Sergeant First Class Barnes thinks he knows war. He lives in a wild cycle of military training, deployments, sex, drinking, and pining for his former best friend and ex-boyfriend, Steve Rogers. But when Lieutenant Rogers is assigned as his platoon leader during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Barnes realizes that he doesn't know the first thing about what it means to truly fight for something. ——— An Iraq War love story in three movements. Or: The story of two men who go to war and don’t quite come back home. ——— Please read the tags and warnings.

Keith is returning from deployment overseas, officially released from duty in the military. However, his first stop back in the states isn’t the place he expected to be - the funeral of his military partner Miguel McClain. There he meets Lance, the younger brother of the fallen soldier, along with the other grieving members of the McClain family. Unsure of the next steps in his life and unable to separate his military and civilian life, Keith looks to the one place he can even consider home - the family Miguel loved and left behind. Using group therapy, meeting new people, and becoming closer with the McClain family, Keith tries to put his life back together and live past the tragedy of losing his best friend. In turn, he grows a bond with Lance and realizes that maybe Miguel was right along - the two seemed made for each other.

Klaus meets someone different right after arriving in 1960. The following 3 years are very different.

When Raylan was banished to the Lexington office, he didn't expect it to last long. Every office in the country was chomping at the bit to have an Alpha deputy, even an Alpha like Raylan. For all the chaos Alphas seemed to bring, they also brought results. Raylan walked into the quaint Lexington office and smiled as Art met him halfway. He subtly clocked the deputies sitting at their desks, the lights dim, everyone just wrapping up for the night. Their inoffensive beta scents lingering slightly in the air. Nothing much to see here.

It's not nice to exorcise people from their own homes.A Winterwitch RomCom AU based on the movie Just Like Heaven.