I am addicted to fics. Anyone who knows me is aware of this. I have literally hundreds of fics bookmarked, so I figured it was high time to get off my behind and put them somewhere so everyone can enjoy them. These are my favourites. Please, please, please, by all means, if you don’t see one of your favourites here, drop by my ask, I am always looking for new ones to read that may have slipped under my radar. They’re organized by fandom, with AUs and ships kind of smooshed in together in no real order.

Band of Brothers | The Pacific | Generation Kill

Sites To Check

• Camp-Toccoa (the LJ Band of Brothers slash community)
• Band of Brothers AO3 page
• Mt Currahee (the LJ Band of Brothers rarefic community)
• Aldbourne Whores (the LJ Band of Brothers general community)
• Band of Brothers on delicious
• Pacific-Fic (the LJ Pacific fanfiction community)
• The Pacific AO3 page
• The Pacific on delicious
• Generation-Kill (the LJ Generation Kill fanfiction community)
• Generation Kill AO3 page
• Generation Kill on delicious

Crossovers

Pan-HBO-War-Fandoms-Modern-AU (BoB/Pacific/Generation Kill crossover of epicness and beauty, multiple ships, PG13, AU)

• The story of Gene, Snafu, Babe, Spina, Harry, Kitty, Eddie, Andy, Sledge, Sid, and pretty much everyone else living their lives. Probably the best-written fic I’ve ever read for this fandom.

***The Nashville/Ridic Pop Stars Verse (BoB/Pacific/Generation Kill crossover)

• Some of them are former pop stars. Some of them are up-and-coming country stars. Some of them are managers. Some of them are bartenders. All of them are finding their place in the world.

Love Is Like A Lobotomy (BoB/Pacific crossover, multiple ships, PG13, AU)

• Webster writes porn—if only to make a living—and gets into a car wreck with a mouthy cabbie named Liebgott. His fellow writer of the non-porn kind, Leckie thinks the two have oddly interesting chemistry but he’s too busy being ignored by Basilone, who has just returned from overseas and makes it a point to avoid Leckie to devote his time to his new girl, Lena. Snafu, the new secretary at Nixon’s (yes, the alcoholic one) shrink office, secretly crushes on his roommate, Sledge. Sledge doesn’t notice because his friend Sid is his moving away and he’s only got eyes for him. Leyden’s not gay or anything but he’s kind of pissed Snafu doesn’t like him that way. Chuckler/Runner and Skip/Malark are champion matchmakers and plot for everyone. Haldane and Winters kind of just watch over everyone and make sure no one dies. 

***If You Wanna Leave Build A Better Rocket (Roe/Snafu, pre-Roe/Babe, NC17, AU)

• “They meet in Louisiana as children, with Roe a few years older and wearing it like a second skin, with Snafu going by Merriell because he was young enough to still be proud of a family name.” Their stories, and the stories of how they grow up.

***We Were Two Until We Melted Down (Roe/Babe, Sledge/Snafu, Roe/Snafu, NC17, AU)

• Roe meets Babe the day that John Julian dies. 

***We Dance On Our Graves With The Bodies Below (Roe/Babe, Sledge/Snafu, Roe/Snafu, NC17, AU)

• Snafu drives to Mobile with a full tank of gas and half a pack of cigarettes and the rest of a bottle of Jack Daniels in his lap.

***If I Had A Heart I Could Love You (Roe/Babe, Sledge/Snafu, Roe/Snafu, NC17, AU)

• Snafu’s father dies on Halloween. Roe calls him in that strong, steady breath he used to use on his soldiers, and Snafu wants to tell him to shut up because he can’t bear that deep timbre of regret or sorrow or that same heady wall of grief that Snafu had felt when Roe’s own father died sometime in the night when they were young.

***And You Know You Can’t Heal Them All (Roe/Babe, Sledge/Snafu, Roe/Snafu, NC17, AU)

• Roe doesn’t tell Babe everything.

Been Here Before (Liebgott/Webster crossover with Generation Kill, Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• David Webster left for Iraq on a Tuesday in January. David thinks he might have also left Joe Liebgott that same Tuesday.

A Devil Dog In Baggy Pants (Ray-Centric cross-over with BoB, NC17, AU)

• Josh Ray Person is a US Marine. He thinks he knows what war is. He thinks he knows what friendship means. He thinks there’s no such as time travel. Ray is about to find out he’s wrong on all three counts.

Wartimehipsters: Brad and Nate

• Of all the things Brad Colbert could have seen while stepping out the door of Bravo Café, Nate Fick reaching for the door handle was not one he was expecting.

Wartimehipsters: Five Times Ray Kissed Walt and One Time Walt Kissed Him

• Title says it all ~

Wartimehipsters: Untitled Ray/Walt

• Saturday mornings were a time for sleeping in; any self-respecting college student knew that.

Wartimehipsters: Untitled Brad and Ray Character Study

• Ray hated the dorms. Hated them. 

Wartimehipsters: Untitled Ray/Walt Fluff

• Ray sneaks Walt into the dorms

Wartimehipsters: Ray Sleeps Over At Walt’s Dorm

• Ray doesn’t really care for Manhattan, but some parts aren’t so bad.

Wartimehipsters: Coda to the one where Ray sleeps over

Wartimehipsters: Drunk!Walt

• “I’m sorry. Ray made me drink. Drunk. Ray made me drunk.”

Wartimehipsters: Untitled Ray/Walt Shenanigans With Grumpy!Brad

•  It takes some time for Brad to warm up to people, Walt learned.

Band of Brothers

hjbender’s BoB 100 Challenge (multiple ships, G-NC17)

• 157 prompts. A hundred 100-word drabbles. Absolutely brilliant and hilarious.

Every Spark (Babe/Roe, PG13)

• Four times Babe Heffron and Doc Roe almost collide and one time they do.

Complete (Babe/Roe, PG13)

• Babe searches for Gene.

A Heart That Hurts (Babe/Roe, PG13, by the gorgeous Val)

• Little lost moments between Doc Roe and his ginger friend

Circle (Babe/Roe, PG)

• “I’ve never had a cat,” Roe murmurs, “I hear they’re very picky.”

A Time For Every Matter (Babe/Roe, NC17)

• In which the unlikely becomes inevitable, and various circumstances force Babe to come to terms with his feelings for Gene. 

Years Later (Babe/Roe, NC17)

• Years later, Babe realizes just how much Gene hates the cold.

Years Before (Babe/Roe, NC17)

• The flip story to Years Later. Roe’s side of the story.

Distilled (Liebgott/Webster, R)

• Webster, when smashed, is a very open person. Doc Roe and Liebgott must deal with this in their own ways.

A Love Like The Sea (Liebgott/Webster, PG13)

• Joe Liebgott is roused in the middle of the night by a phone call (an intervention in disguise) and ends up anchored down to one place while he tries to reconcile the man he’s become with the man who went to war.

Michaelis (Liebgott/Webster, PG13)

• He’s the type of person who craves company when he’s alone, and searches desperately for solitude when he’s with others–and that contradiction kills him sometimes. Liebgott, in seven kisses, some of them involving Web. Oneshot.

The World Fell Down With Some People Still Around (Liebgott/Webster, PG13)

• At this moment, Webster too tries to write around the edges, but even then it seems impossible. There are simply no words for it, he thinks. He stares at the empty page, a pen in hand, but he doesn’t find the words. Not one. 

The Unkind Story (Liebgott/Webster, PG13)

• His medals went into a box and his shame went with it. His memories have been harder to suppress and his kinship and love for his brothers in arms refuses to bow down. Liebgott tries to hide away his stories and Webster can’t manage to tell his.

How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down? (Liebgott/Webster, NC17, AU)

• From an outsider’s viewpoint, David’s life is kind of a fucking mess. He lives in a shitty one room apartment in Queens, every newspaper thinks his stories are pretentious bullshit. And he fucks his brother once a month. Not an auspicious beginning.

Things Like These (Liebgott/Webster, NC17)

• He dwells on the slightly sickening feeling that has settled in his belly.

Something Here Will Eventually Have To Explode (Liebgott/Webster, NC17)

• He wasn’t sure when Joe became not so much a body generating heat next to his own, but everything. Written by the beautiful and outrageously-talented Hannah, who I can never manage to shower with enough praise.

You’re So Sweet To Try (Liebgott/Webster, PG)

• Liebgott can never quite figure Webster out. Years later, it’ll hit him why.

Taste Your Air And Your Lighter’s Smoke (Liebgott/Webster, PG)

• And how he saw the world, in vivid black and white, stark in its bleak and terrifying emptiness. 

Give And Take (Liebgott/Webster, NC17)

• Joe hadn’t intended on jumping David the second he walked into the room. He hadn’t even planned on being in the room when he got back, but there he was, already half out of his uniform and thoroughly mussed and he couldn’t pass the chance up. 

While The Gentlemen Walk By (Liebgott/Webster, NC17, AU)

• A mob AU love story.

Rendezvous (Liebgott/Webster, NC17, AU)

• A 1940s AU. Right when David thinks the customers won’t show up anymore, some guy steps in.

The Beast And Dragon Adored (Liebgott/Webster, NC17, AU)

• A rockband!AU in which Webster and Liebgott are in opposing bands scheduled to play a gig together; unfortunate sexual histories and old high school rivalries re-surface. And it’s over 16,000 words long. And there’s a lot of sex.

***Set The Truth On Fire (Liebgott/Webster, R, written by my beautiful girl Izzie)

• What your parents don’t tell you is this: you’ve got to live with this for the rest of your life. (Or, Five Things Liebgott Swears Never Happened).

***Lock It Up And Leave (Liebgott/Webster, R, IZZIE WROTE THIS FOR MY BIRTHDAY OKAY)

• He used to have so much he wanted to say, but he thinks that he left the most important things behind.

Made Visible And Permanent (Winters/Nixon, PG13, AU)

• At the beginning of a downward spiral, Nixon gets tangled up in a very different crowd. Cross-country AU.

Lancaster County (Winters/Nixon, PG13, AU)

• Nix is born later. Dick is there. 

Chai 18 (Winters/Nixon, NC17, AU)

• A sort of accompaniment to Lancaster County. Winnix years later.

Three Perfect Skies in the Life and Career of Lewis Nixon, and One in the Memories of Richard Winters (Winnix, NC17)

• “We look like boy soldiers, is what Dick Winters says.” Dick and Nix, through the days. 

And You On My Mind (Lipton/Speirs, NC17)

• You say that you don’t want any of Easy to know that you’re in Boston but you give me your address. Following a relationship through the end of the war and beyond.

War-Stained Letters (Lipton/Speirs, NC17)

• For the first time in his life he found himself writing letters and dreading the day they would go unanswered. He kept them all in a purloined plastic bag at the bottom of his duffle.

Officeworks (Lipton/Speirs, NC17, AU)

• The depth and breadth of Carwood’s knowledge of Ron Speirs could fit on the back of a postage stamp. Or possibly the head of a pin. Carwood Lipton is assigned to E Company’s new team leader to assist with the transition. Rumours abound.

The Velveteen Soldier (Lipton/Speirs, R)

• “Does it hurt?” asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit. ”Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” An exploration in Speirs. This is a look at the biggest bad-ass of Easy, from a young age living with his parents in Maine to old age living with his partner, Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton, in Montana. How did he go from being the quiet boy no one wanted on their baseball team in PE (even if he could run the bases faster than anyone else) to being the quiet foster father of four? From being a war hero and CO of Easy Company to being a handyman that all the women in the neighbourhood called upon? From being rumour-riddled and nightmare-haunted to being loved and care-worn? This is the story of how Ronald C. Speirs became Real.

Adversary (Lipton/Speirs, NC17)

• It was a fleeting smile, a lighter-bearing hand, fingers at the back of his neck, call-me-Ron, a distance crossed with authority and without flinching. Carwood just didn’t know it yet.

Mama Lip (Lipton/Speirs, PG13)

• Mama said there’d be days like this …

When The Waves Turn Minutes Into Hours (Speirs/Lipton, NC17)

• In the aftermath of Grant’s shooting, Speirs and Lipton … talk.

***Rise To The Occasion Of Catching Things That Fall (Speirs/Lipton, NC17)

• Captain Speirs is nothing like Norman Dike.

***After Bastogne (Speirs/Lipton, NC17)

• Don’t fall back. Dig in deeper. Above all else, hold the line.

***Transition (Speirs/Lipton, R)

• Lipton adjusts to being an officer, and learns all sorts of new things

***The Ballad Of Love And Hate (Speirs/Lipton, R, AU, by my girl Vanz)

• Ronald Speirs honestly couldn’t bring himself to care about anything or anyone. Born and bred in Boston’s high society, he his absolutely and completely disenfranchised with his entire world. He’s never wanted anything, he’s never needed anyone. Until he meets a new face. Until he’s found a reason for being. Loving someone and needing someone at the absolute worst time imaginable.

***Prodigal Son (Lipton-centric, Lipton/Speirs, R)

• An exploration in Lipton. This is a look at the caretaker of Easy, from childhood in Huntington to old age in Montana, living with his partner Ronald C. Speirs. Prodigal Son is the life of Carwood Lipton, as it unfolds through the events of The Velveteen Soldier, looking at the same life from the point of view of the other man in it. Curious how Carwood coped with looking after an entire company of soldiers lead by an absentee CO? Or how he adjusted to life after the war? This is the story of how little First Lieutenant Carwood Lipton grew up, found love, and built a house of cards with Captain Ron Speirs.

Knowing (Speirs/Luz, NC17)

• Luz does it because he gets some action without having to take the risk of asking the others. Speirs does it because Luz speaks in Roe’s deep, sensual drawl for him without ever asking why.

Night (Babe/?, NC17)

• Babe gets a visitor in the dark.

For The Benefit Of Sergent Grant (Grant-centric, NC17)

• The aftermath of Grant’s shooting among Easy’s men and officers.

To Have And Have Not (Grant-centric, NC17)

• After Grant is shot … from his perspective.

Oh Two Hundred Hours (Babe/Toye, PG13)

• Joe had said that he’d only be staying a day, that he’d only come to humor Bill and all his goddamn insistence, but four nights of insomnia later and he’s still in Babe’s house, taking up a corner of his kitchen and not letting Babe sleep.

One Hell Of A Night (Bull/Martin, NC17)

• In the aftermath of the last patrol in Haguenau, Bull and Johnny find some comfort.

Each Man Does Not Die (Lipton/Luz, PG13)

• Carwood Lipton, going to war, believes from the very start that he will die

Femmes Des Ombres (An fic written by the stunning Emilie)

• Assigned to work with the 101st Airborne, a woman of shadows - nurse, spy and soldier all wrapped into one - tries to find her way into the light. Circumstances set her free; friendship sustains her; but it is love that brings her home.

A Destiny That Makes Us Brothers (Gen, R)

• A series of missing scenes during and after the miniseries.

Good Soldier (Gen, R)

• Ron Speirs character study

Cause and Effect (Gen, R)

• Skinny Sisk character study, reflecting on the events of ‘Points’

Little Boy Blue (Gen, R)

• Roy Cobb character study

Practical Duty (Gen, PG13)

• Allen Vest character study

Those Armies So Wonderous (Gen with Winnix undertones, G)

• Harry Welsh character study

Whose Faces I Do Not Recall (Gen, PG13)

• Father Maloney character study

Alone Together (Gen, PG13)

• Joe Liebgott and Ed Tipper are best friends. A love story about friendship

Saving Private Niland (Gen, R, AU)

• Captain Dick Winters and his squad of Easy Company men are tasked with the mission to find Private Fritz Niland and send him home. 

Missing Pieces (Gen, PG13)

• Deleted/missing moments from each episode

Scrambled Eggs (Gen, PG13)

• Perconte and Luz just want scrambled eggs

And Chaos Is Luck (Gen, PG13)

• It all rattles and collects in corners, the trick of events and the way things like war will come to be both told and remembered. ensemble. 

***Shallow Graves (Gen, PG13)

• James ‘Moe’ Alley character study

***Trigger (Gen, PG)

• Ever wonder what happened to Tab’s dog, Trigger?

***Parallel Lives (Gen, PG13)

• How a kid from Eugene, Oregon, ends up in the Wehrmacht. A character study of ‘The Boy From Eugene)

***Hurry Up And Wait (Gen, PG13)

• Roe faces one last march before he can get home.

***Hymns For The Common Soldier (Gen, NC17)

• Lucky Strike means fine tobacco! Lead Characters: Meehan’s pilot, Father Maloney, Muck, Malarkey, Penkala

***Let Me Show You How We Do Things ‘Round Here, Kid (Gen, PG13)

• Johnny – reluctantly – shows Jones the ropes.

The Pacific

A Bullet Down (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17, AU, my all-time favourite Pacific fic)

• “I think we’re too good for it to be a coincidence,” Andrew finally answers, “I think someone is intentionally planting faulty intel.” Organized Crime AU.

The Definition Of Luck (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13)

• Andrew blames the whole thing on Gloucester rain.

Hillbilly Faces The Music (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG)

• “Of all the possibilities that a night out in Melbourne might hold, Hillbilly really had not been expecting to find himself stuck in the corner of some seedy dive, nursing a pint of rapidly flattening lager while Captain Haldane was being waltzed around the room by a succession of leering sailors. It was only a matter of time, he was sure, before the skipper worked out just what kind of a place this was and all hell broke loose.”

So Much For Playing It Safe (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17)

•  ”As such, it came as something of a surprise when, exactly two weeks after the night they’d first kissed, Haldane asked him out on a date.” A sequel of sorts to Hillbilly Faces The Music - Haldane wants to take things to the next level, Hillbilly’s convinced it’s all going to go horribly wrong, and one way or another, somebody’s going to have to change their mind.

In The Hollows Of Your Eyelids (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13)

• Great swirls of letters to friends, mathematics and poems, they all feel different and so does this.

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17)

• In which Andrew Haldane nobly struggles with the Japanese, the weather, his grip on reality, and his increasingly unmanageable fondness for one of his own officers. Not necessarily in that order. 

And If You’re Breathing In The Morning, Make Your Bed Again (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17)

• Eddie and Andrew on various days through the months spent on Banika.

Nine Songs And A Serenade (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG)

• Hillbilly’s guitar is his constant companion, a keepsake and a totem, and what’s more, a way of saying things he won’t or can’t say any other way.

In The Creases And The Shadows (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13)

• He doesn’t know when it started, if it ever actually properly ‘started’ even.

And We’ll See It, Oh We’ll See It (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13, prepare your tissues)

• “Dang,” he breathes. It’s woefully inadequate, but Andrew can barely breathe past the lump in his throat. He feels like his ribcage has gone tight, like his lungs are being compressed to nothing. “Dang.”

Fire In The Hole (It Was Justified) (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17, AU)

• This is some horrible version of purgatory.

Triple Word Score (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17, AU, part of the Bullet-verse)

• dildos: in the fic, in the commentsoutside your window, watching you sleep

As A Songbird That Is Fallen (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13)

• “They were auctioning off my sister, I think, and, uh,” Burgins colored and looked down. “Things just got a bit out of hand.”

Turn Against The Darkness With Intention (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13, AU)

• “It isn’t a skirt,” he replies, “it’s a kilt, and for God’s sake never repeat that in front of my father.”

Illusion (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17, AU, part of the Bullet-verse)

• Just him, and what would never be

Float Upstream (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17)

• The strings were tied back together where they broke, the music quiet and ever so slightly off-key, just like his singing

Banika (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, PG13)

• Eddie might be going a bit crazy.

The Good Things In Life (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, NC17, AU)

• President Haldane doesn’t need a First Lady. He has Edward Jones.

And Found (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, R, AU)

• Modern AU with Andy traveling the United States after losing his job, and running into Eddie along the way at various stops.

Straight On Til Morning (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, R, AU)

• In 1936, Edward Jones attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 

***A Reasonably Merry Christmas (Ack-Ack/Hillbilly, R)

• Utterly shameless festive fluff - Andy and Eddie do their best to have a half-decent Christmas in the face of unseasonal weather, lack of privacy, and the looming prospect of heading to war again.

We Lay Claim To The World Gradually (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• It might have been a nod, or a tip of his head that somehow carried meaning; a lilt that could have been read as don’t just fucking sit there. 

Renegade Dreams (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• The discovery of the Ilu River meant that days on Guadalcanal resembled scenes Leckie had imagined of the island before he’d arrived: deep, cool water, nudity, laughter, and the barest hint of Jap wine to keep them all sufficiently inebriated. 

 Pace Is The Trick (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• And every time he feels as though the final brick has slotted into place, he leans against the wall and finds some new unsteadiness.

I Need More Than To Knock It Down, I’m Really Tryin’ To Lock It Down (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• Leckie shows up in his dress blues at Hoosier’s.  Hijinks and porn insue.

The Water Sustains Me Without Even Trying (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• It’s probably disingenuous to say that Hoosier’s reading the book for the plot, really. He’s been flicking through it for about an hour, focusing on Leckie’s garbled notes smudged in the margins, paying attention to the underlined and starred passages. He parses Leckie’s markings, turning the search into a game: Will the next quote be more depressing than the last? Generally, the answer’s yes. His mouth curves up in a small smile thinking about Lucky, sitting alone at a table, furiously picking out the book’s most melancholy bits.

Now Look You Done (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17, AU)

• Modern AU in which Leckie and Hoosier are roommates who bitch and fuck.  Obviously. 

In A Year Of Lonely Nights (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• Leckie draws an even breath. Runner and Chuckler would be no strangers to this sort of thing. But it comes naturally between them – a press of a hand against the small of Runner’s back; Runner’s fingers folded against the bone of Chuckler’s wrist. Nobody gives it a second glance because they are simply like that. But Leckie’s not. Hoosier’s not. Beyond a clap on the shoulder and a nudge of an elbow, they sit apart. They like their own space.

Our Arbitrary Selves (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• He thinks about trying to write to Vera, but it just ends up about Hoosier again.

Fuck Like A Dead Man (Leckie/Hoosier, NC17)

• What if Leckie hadn’t gotten his drunken ass thrown in the brig that night?

Private (Leckie/Hoosier, R)

• When Leckie goes to Indiana to seek out Hoosier after the war, he’s not even sure why he’s doing it. It’s not until he arrives that he realizes that the closeness he can’t find with a girl is the kind of closeness he’s always had with Bill.

Challenge (Hoosier-centric, NC17)

• Blankets can be very effective hiding places, as long as you can keep your mouth shut.

Roadverse (Sledge/Snafu, multiple fics, NC17, AU)

• “Ever seen the Atlantic Ocean?” Snafu asked rhetorically as he turned the car east. It was the last thing that either of them said, lapsing into a comfortable silence.

 All The Things We Care About (Sledge/Snafu, NC17)

• The two of them became something close to friends, but with every fight they fought, every Jap they shot, Sledge grew more grim and Snafu less sure in his endeavor to seem tough. And then, at the point where most men lose the will to care, he started to. About one thing in particular.

Not Quite Home (Sledge/Snafu, PG13)

• He thinks he knows exactly why Sledge is here, exactly what he wants.

Learning Curve (Sledge/Snafu, NC17, AU)

• An AU where the boys of The Pacific are Mu Gamma fraternity brothers at Pacific University. (Incomplete, but absolutely amazing)

Postscript (Sledge/Snafu, NC17)

• He looks up from the dying skin of an already-dead man, and looks at Snafu who, in a moment of clarity and selflessness not doomed by war, looks very much alive. His eyes are open, dull, but not dead. And the clutched hand at his side is letting go of the rocks and hypocrisy as he stares right back at Sledge because, goddamn it, you should know better.

That Time They Went To Target (Sledge/Snafu crack, G, AU) 

• Exactly what it says on the label. They go to Target.

Bring On The Silence (Sledge/Snafu, PG13)

• A kiss in the rain after the war.

Had My Head In The Oven So You’d Know Where I’ll Be (Sledge/Snafu, PG)

• It’s not time to wake up until he says your name.

Pipe (Sledge/Snafu, NC17)

• In the dark of night he can see the light from Sledge’s pipe, faint orange glow against a backdrop of sporadic gunfire stars. 

How To Kill Your Conscience (Sledge/Snafu, R, AU)

• Cop/detective!AU. His name is Eugene B. Sledge, but most cats on the streets know him as Sledgehammer.

Heed Our Imperfect Hearts (Sledge/Snafu, NC17)

• “Have you ever kissed someone?” he asks in his soft distinguishable drawl, his silhouette blurred against dimmed lights, recognizable even if sledge can’t actually see him

The Only Living Boys In New York (Sledge/Snafu, NC17, AU)

• Where Sledge and Snafu are drug-dealers in New York City. Snafu is the veteran; Sledge the newbie who has to learn the tricks of the trade. Kind of.

***Use It Or Lose It (Sledge/Snafu, R, AU)

• Before Eugene kicks off his young life, his ongoing journey into greatness or mediocrity, he’ll find a place to call his own. His path is laid out in the form of college coming so many months away.

Everyday, I Waited For You (Runner/Gibson, NC17)

• Drunken, giggly sex that almost doesn’t happen (but eventually does) because they’re so drunk

Blatant Phallic Symbolism (Leckie/Runner, NC17)

• It’s a slow day on Guadalcanal, and all Leckie wants to do is get some rest, but Runner’s being all kinds of distracting…

***No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem (Gen, PG)

• In which Snafu gets lost in Australia and Burgie knows about cows. 

Generation Kill

Epic Brad/Nate AU Master List: A-Z

• The Holy Grail of fic lists. I kid you not.

***2011 YAGKYAS Masterlist of Entires

• Basically 40 fics by some of the fandom’s greatest writers. Every pairing.

Where Did Ray And Walt Get Off To? (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, OT4, NC17)

• Because there aren’t enough OT4 fis out there. (aka the ‘Ooh-Rah, puppy, get some’ fic)

Take Two Marines (And Call Me In The Morning) (Ray/Brad/Nate, NC17)

• Takes place right after Ray leaves the football field in the Bomb in the Garden. (It’s so incredibly well-written. There’s so few OT3 fics out there.)

The Giant Brad/Nate/Ray/Walt Drabble Post (Every combination possible, NC17)

• Exactly what it says on the label.

Put On A Show (Brad/Ray/Nate, NC17)

• They don’t call his name because Brad doesn’t want to be a part of the show; he wants to see, he wants them to show themselves off for him; he wants to know that even when they’re the ones fucking, even when he’s just watching without a word, he’s still silently running the show.

The Perfect Picture of an (Extra)Ordinary Life (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• Nate is an art student stuck on his semester project, Brad poses for the students at his school.

Celer, Silens, Mortalis (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• A Batman AU featuring Brad as Batman, Ray as Alfred (yes, you read that correctly), Walt as Robin, and many others.

Light Up The Trenches Where My Heart Lies (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• Actors AU. Brad Colbert and Nate Fick had met on the set of a now cancelled sci-fi show, years ago. Now, Hollywood turns out to be a small town after all, and it’s hard to avoid someone you broke up with. Especially when you both sign up for the same movie.

The Season Of Rain (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• Nate is the only son of a couple of millionaires who managed to piss off the wrong people, Brad is the bodyguard assigned to protect him. 

The Trick Of Love Is To Never Let It Find You (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, PG13, AU)

• CIA AU. In the tv-land type of CIA. First week into this job Ray has heard the same thing over and over, for just about a couple hundred times: “New communications guy on Fick’s team? I am so sorry.”

Holding Hearts (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, PG13, AU)

• When the boys get roughed up, Nate brings them to Brad for sanctuary.

Conversations On The Train (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• When Brad’s bike breaks down, he’s forced to take the subway to work, and during that time he most definitely doesn’t develop an unhealthy obsession with a certain college student who takes the same train as Brad every day. No, really, he doesn’t. College!AU (sort of).

Untitled (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, PG13, AU)

• Wherein Nate is a professor.

Our Year Out Of Time (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• The characters of Bravo 2 are brought together as young street kids in the broken-down, class-divided New York of the 1990s. Nate tries to get his found brothers — Ray, Tony, Walt, Gabe, Mike and Doc — out of a bad situation after a friend dies of an overdose. They found a new squat on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and work to build it and get it to thrive. Brad is a runaway who has left military school under difficult circumstances and is brought into the fold. Conflict comes from former squat members, street dealers, the police, the government and a possible traitor in their midst. They work, fight, create, destroy and love each other through this war on the streets.

ON THE CARE AND FEEDING OF MARINES, BY WALT, AGED 23 AND A HALF, AND RAY, AGED 25 (Ray/Walt, Brad/Nate, OT4, aka my favourite GK fic, no joke)

• When Ray’s cover is blown re: pet-name, he just hangs around the mouth of the nearest dark alley for a bit after the next Bravo 2 reunion, and then threatens Brad with MAD. Ray’s honestly surprised the LT lets him get away with that shit.

The Case In Point(s) (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, PG13, AU, aka my other all-time favourite fic)

• Detective Brad Colbert meets ME Nate Fick on a Tuesday and he doesn’t hate him on sight. It goes from there.

***Generation Hunger (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, gen, PG13, AU, written by my loves Vanz and Alexa)

• A Hunger Games AU verse

The Road Not Taken (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Nate’s pretty sure that most Marine Corps recruitment drives don’t include lusting after your potential Marine brothers, but it’s not Nate’s fault. College AU.

On A New Shoreline (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Nate never joined the Marine Corps. He works two jobs, one as a hotass waiter at a local bar where he meets Brad, and one as a popular fiction writer. Brad is a Marine though, and Marines get deployed, and Brad has to go, even if it means leaving Nate behind.

Get Some (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• “Brad Colbert is bored. Nate knows this because he can feel Brad staring at him from his desk one aisle over and two chairs back. On the other side of the classroom, Ray Person’s making obscene hand signals in Nate’s general direction, ostensibly to get Brad’s attention. At least it better be to get Brad’s attention, or somebody’s going to have an accident in the weight room before practice.”

Owed By So Many To So Few (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• WWII AU: Nate Fick is a young British farmer who rescues an injured soldier, Brad. Sex Hurt Comfort etc

Bright College Years (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Bravo platoon as a fraternity.

It May Be Heart And Fist And Human Voice (Brad/Nate, PG13, AU)

• “There are 73 unread emails in Brad Colbert’s inbox.”

My Best Friend Is You (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• It takes exactly 17 minutes and 30 seconds for Brad Colbert to like Nate Fick.

Easy To Say But Harder To Feel This Way (Brad/Nate, PG13, AU)

• FBI AU. Undercover. In the suburbs. And pretending to be married. (Safe to say, Brad Colbert hates his life so much)

They Set Their Hearts Upon You (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Brad and Nate are models. They fall in love. 

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt (Brad/Nate, NC17)

• “Brad sends one last e-mail before he leaves CTCRM for the train.”

Falling Apart To Half-Time (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU, aka my favourite Brad/Nate fic out there)

• Nate thinks: Not dancing is not living. He doesn’t say it. (Note: this one may be locked, but it so, so worth joining the comm for. Trust me.)

In For A Penny, In For A Pound (Brad/Nate, PG13, AU)

• Nate’s not an idiot, he knows Brad wants to have kids. Nate does the one thing he can think of to stem the baby wanting, and that’s to adopt a dog. Or a cat, really, because a dog is a lot of effort. He just wasn’t planning for any of the drama adopting a cat would cause. 

The Exodus Is Here (Brad/Nate, NC17)

• When Nate gets in an accident, his men come to visit him. One of them stays.

All We Gotta Do Is Be Brave And Be Kind (Baby, We’ll Be Fine) (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Senator Nathaniel Fick of Maryland decides to run for president in 2024 election. What happened before, what happens after and what Brad thinks about all of this.

I Know The Hows and Whens (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Continuation of The Trick Of Love Is To Never Let It Find You.

All We Gotta Do Is Be Brave And Be Kind (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Senator Nathaniel Fick of Maryland decides to run for president in 2024 election. What happened before, what happens after and what Brad thinks about all of this.

Semper Fidelis Familia (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• There is no temp agency for the Mob. You can’t just call up an employment office and say, “Hi, I’m a captain in one of the four families, and I need a bodyguard because I blew up the competition’s warehouse, and in return someone left a dozen gutted fish outside the front door of my apartment building this morning, which probably means my days are numbered. So, if you could send me a temp to take a bullet or six, that would be great.” Well, you can say that, but you don’t say things like that to people who aren’t in the family. At least not in Baltimore.

Noblesse Oblige (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• This was not a normal day. This day existed to prove that hell was real and it came with musical accompaniment by will.i.am. On this day, Steve figured out how to get him out of the office and torment him at the same time by sending him to the godforsaken DNC where it was all ‘we shall overcome,’ oh-happy-day bullshit.

One Foot In Front Of The Other (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• High school!AU. “He’s awesome! Let’s adopt a stray, Brad.” 

Owed By So Many To So Few (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• WWII AU: Nate Fick is a young British farmer who rescues an injured soldier, Brad. 

The West-Coast Two-Step (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• 1888, Reno, NV. Sheriff Brad Colbert used to get along just fine…that is, until a morning shootout broke out in his town leaving three men dead. A babyfaced stranger by the name of Fick rolls in around the same time, and Brad ain’t convinced the two events aren’t related.

I’d Like To Have The Time I Lost (Give It Back To You) (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Groundhog Day AU. Brad Colbert wakes up and it’s the same day over and over again.

The Dog Days Are Over (Brad/Nate, PG13)

• How do you know when it’s enough?  What do you do when you don’t have any reserves left?

Higher Education (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Nate is watching him. Of course he is. Nate looks like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, like the boy every mother prays her daughter will bring home. Nate followed Brad to his car after school yesterday and sucked him off in the parking lot of a near-deserted Wendy’s, looked up at Brad through his lashes and begged for it wordlessly.

And My Glory Shall Be Love (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• There is little that Agent Mike Wynn takes more seriously than the life of Vice President Nate Fick. When the number of death threats starts to climb, he calls in the one person he’s sure he can trust, USMC Sgt. Brad Colbert, and assigns him the 24/7 task of being the Vice President’s shadow.

Wild And Bereft, An Assassin Is Born (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• A GK Bourne Identity AU 

Linen Sheets And Quiet Words (Brad/Nate, NC17)

• Brad and Nate always seem to say so much with so few words. Why talk? When they can touch.

Holding Hearts (Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt, PG13, AU)

• A short, sweet OT4 fic. When the boys get roughed up, Nate brings them to Brad for sanctuary.

Go On Till You Come To The End (Brad/Nate, NC17)

• There are a lot of things Brad is good at. Relationships are not one of them.

The First Family (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Some things were just meant to be.

Mr Frosty (Brad/Nate, NC17, AU)

• Three days, a hostage, some snow globes and an ice cream truck with turret. Brad is an assassin working out of an ice cream truck.

Space And Time Between (Brad/Nate, NC17)

• Some things have to be broken before they can be fixed. Nate is at Brad’s doorstep before he really has time to think things through, the airport a blur of lines and security and too much to drink on the plane.

***Pale Pink Gossamer My Gown (Brad/Nate, R, AU)

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden

Reading Is Fundamental (Ray/Walt, NC17, AU)

• Walt’s a librarian, but hasn’t always been.

Now Country Roads (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• Set during the end of Bomb in the Garden; Walt follows Ray after the football game. 

Signal and Noise (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• Ray likes to cook. Good thing Walt likes to eat.

For Once I Could Go Off (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• Ray couldn’t really put what he thought about Walt into words, not even in his own head, he just didn’t have the vocabulary to describe why he suddenly thought tiny blonde Marines with blue eyes were so damn attractive.

The Marine Corps Makes You Gay and Other Theories (Ray/Walt, PG13)

• Ray’s got a theory

A Love Story In Bullets About Ray Person and Walt Hasser (Ray/Walt, PG13)

• Exactly what it says on the label.

Just One Life (Ray/Walt, NC17, aka my favourite Ray/Walt fic out there)

• Walt was a Marine. Ray wasn’t. It was that simple.

Use Your Hands (You Know You Love To Get Them Dirty) (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• The follow-up to For Once I Could Go Off.

Five Times Ray Person Signed His Name (And Once When Walt Did It For Him) (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• Exactly what it says on the label.

Gonna Take Me That South-Bound (Ray/Walt, PG13)

• When Walt is the first to open fire, he knows the moment he pulls the trigger that there’s been some sort of disconnect between his brain and the rest of him. That’s where it starts.

Faces Don’t Smile, They Just Crack (Ray/Walt, PG13)

• When silence reigns, Walt has learned that means shit is about to get stupid. 

Play The Motions Through My Head (Ray/Walt, PG13, AU)

• Model!AU. Absolutely brilliant, totally hot. The sequels are amazing as well.

Travel South Crossland (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• After Iraq, Walt goes home, and then he goes to visit Ray. “What’d you have to eat today, Hasser? You look like you just stepped out of a fuckin’ WorldAid commercial.

The Best Kind Of Surprise (Ray/Walt, NC17)

• The Marines had killed Ray’s love of surprises as surely as they’d removed his brains. Unlike his brains, Ray suspected he wouldn’t be getting his love for surprises back when he left. In Iraq surprises were never good.

One Over The Other (Ray/Walt, G)

• Ray doesn’t know how they end up at Cracker Barrel; he had proclaimed his disgust when Walt suggested it. But Walt had done that thing where his slight smile had more effectively rebuked Ray than any yelling ever could. After he’d found out that Ray had never tried their biscuits and gravy, he was determined to change that.

Ain’t This Just Like The Present, To Be Showing Up Like This (Ray/Walt, PG13, AU)

• WEREWOLVES.

Roxy (Ray/Walt, G, AU)

• Ray had never thought about adopting anything other than a bad attitude, but a desire to keep talking to the blue eyed hottie kept him from outright dismissing the idea of taking home a needy animal.

Tear Down The House That I Grew Up In (Christeson/Stafford, PG13)

• John would know that voice anywhere, but it’s strange to hear it here, in the domestic stillness of Lebanon, Illinois. Strange, but entirely welcome.

I Don’t Know Everything About You, Would You Like To Spend Some Time With Me? (Christeson/Stafford, NC17)

• Sequel to Tear Down The House That I Grew Up In. 

Come And Spread Your Arms If You Really Need A Hug (Christeson/Stafford, PG13)

• Sgt. Evan Stafford has spent so much fucking time in Iraq that it’s almost like home. A really shitty home, but home nonetheless. His fifth tour is just about over—all that remains is a long military flight, trapped in a confined space with the stench and din of his brothers in arms. The hard part is now over. Supposedly.

Some Boyhood Bravery (Christeson/Stafford, NC17)

• John forces himself to fake a smile, shakes his head, and wishes it were that easy.

Forget The Fame, And The Glamour (Christeson/Stafford, PG13)

• This is pure, unadulterated crack. John and Q-tip go to Fleet Week and end up performing ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in the subway station.

Watching The World Go Down (Christeson/Stafford, R)

• No, they can’t catch us.

***Throw Your Back Into It (Christeson/Stafford, PG13)

• It doesn’t even start until they get stateside.

***Some Boyhood Bravery (Christeson/Stafford, NC17)

• John forces himself to fake a smile, shakes his head, and wishes it were that easy.

***No It Isn’t (Christeson/Stafford, PG13)

• Navy and Marines party off base at the beach with a bonfire, booze and fireworks.

***Like A Tension String (Christeson/Stafford, R)

• A helical spring is a mechanical device, which is typically used to store energy and subsequently release it, to absorb shock, or to maintain a force between contacting surfaces.

***When You’re Happy Like A Fool (Let It Take You Over) (Christeson/Stafford, R)

• A series of letters stateside to the Middle East before and after the DADT repeal. They start with “Dear John” but end with “I love you”

***Keep It On The Low (Christeson/Stafford, PG13, AU)

• Post OIF, College!verse. Q-Tip and Christeson are going to school together after Christeson finishes his 4 years in. They share a house with two other guys also going to school. Life is pretty damn screwby.

***Thank God It’s Friday (Christeson/Stafford, R, AU)

• It starts on Thursday with a bottle of Cuervo and ends Friday with a bag of frozen vegetables. Part of the college!verse AU.

***The Stare (Christeson/Stafford, PG13, AU)

• Post OIF, Civilianfic, College verse. There are times when he catches the stare. He seems almost catatonic lost in thought. — The war even haunts Q-Tip.

Bring Me Java, Bring Me Joy (Brad/Ray, PG13, AU)

• College!AU where Brad meets Ray at the coffeeshop where Ray is a barista. 

But I Will Hold On Hope (Brad/Ray, NC17, AU)

• Sequel to Bring Me Java, Bring Me Joy.

The Places We’ve Never Been (But Were Always Bound To End Up) (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• Five years ago, Ray kissed Brad. When Brad pushed him away, Ray thought that was the end of it. Only, now Brad has showed up in Nevada, Missouri without word or warning and Ray has no idea where they’re going from here.

On Hard Ground (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• Ray fights, Brad watches, and the world falls apart around them.

Sunday Mornings (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• No one in their right mind wakes up before noon on a Sunday. Except for maybe Brad, but Ray’s pretty sure that’s debatable.

Held (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• All of Ray’s words are gone, he can’t find any of them, not a single clever thing to say.

Bruised (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• Ray feels Brad’s hands on his skin for days, every time he shifts, like he’s been branded by them. Brad doesn’t leave marks that can’t be explained away if noticed, but after that it’s like he’s been given free rein to do what he wants to Ray.

Write A Secret Language On Your Skin (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• It may be Ray that likes it when Brad holds him down, leaves his mark on him, orders him around with a snap in his voice, but the truth is that it leaves Brad just as helpless.

Beginnings (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• It isn’t out of the blue. It isn’t a ploy to stop Ray from talking, though Ray does, goes still and huffs out a surprised breath that tingles against Brad’s mouth. It isn’t wordless, but the only real talking is in the minute glancing of Brad’s knuckles against Ray’s throat, the way he takes Ray’s lower lip between his teeth and bites down.

The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (Brad/Ray, NC17, AU)

• Hitman!AU. Brad and Ray are good at their job.

Three Songs Ray Sings Questionably Well (And One He Doesn’t) (Brad/Ray, NC17)

• Exactly what it says on the label.

The Most Epic Road Trip To Ever Happen (Brad/Ray, PG13)

• When Ray flew out to visit him for a few days, Walt certainly hadn’t expected the suggestion that they take a road trip all the way back across the country instead of Ray going home the way he came.

Forget The Fucking Curtains (Brad/Ray, PG13)

• Brad. Ray. Portland, Oregon. Ikea. Curtain!fic.

Seek Truth And Report It (Brad/Ray, PG13)

• The column inches feel shorter every day.

Rudy’s Guide to Auras and Fair Game Play (Rudy/Pappy, PG13)

• A sweet fic where Rudy and Pappy keep each other sane while they’re in Iraq.

Hope Over Experience (Rudy/Pappy, PG13)

• Pappy isn’t sure about this whole ‘gay thing’ when he visits Rudy at home. It would make more sense if he could keep his hands off Rudy.

Baghdad Ain’t Shit (Ray-centric character study, NC17)

• Character study of Ray through his teenage years through the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sunshine And Springtime (Ray/everyone, really, NC17, AU)

• Conman!AU. The long con of Nathaniel Fick.

The Corner Of 6th And How To Forget (Brad/Walt, NC17, AU)

• It’s spring break. It’s fucking spring break, and Brad’s single, and he is going to go surfing, get drunk, and get laid. Not necessarily in that order.

In Heat Like This (Brad/Walt, NC17)

• It’s hot, the A/C’s broken, and Walt’s pitching a bitchfit

Seven Days (Nate/Ray, NC17)

• A week in Nate and Ray’s lives post-Iraq

Patience Is A Virtue (Nate/Ray, NC17)

• For most things in life, Ray is impatient as hell, except for when being excruciatingly patient is more fun for him.

Five Ways To Say I Love You Without Being A Girl About It (Nate/Ray, NC17)

• Actions speak louder than words; sometimes words mean more than what’s on the surface; and sometimes, just sometimes, the right words themselves are needed.

Rules Of Engagement (Nate/Ray, PG13, AU)

• ‘We’ve captured Person!’ McGraw had said, smiling broadly, ignoring Nate’s careful suggestion that perhaps this was a touch too easy, that they hadn’t really captured anyone so much as found Person in the rigging of their own ship, examining their sails with a proprietary air. And then the man had cheerfully held out his hands to be clapped in irons. Of course, McGraw had found nothing about this suspicious at all.

An Ode to the Death of Ray’s Heterosexuality (or, ‘So Long and Thanks For All the Trim’)(Ray/Rudy, NC17)

• Rudy knows how to break through all of Ray’s hard-earned training with the graze of fingers over sweat-slickened skin.

Became Friends As We Learned How To Fight (Gen, Ray, Walt, Brad, Nate, PG13)

• Ray doesn’t adjust well to civilian life.