13 Works in Benjamin Shariff
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“If we do it in the corner behind the sofa we’ll be able to see anyone coming in before they see us. Plus my laptop’s up there. Plausible deniability.”
“Nothing gets me harder than the law.”
“Mouthy. Let’s see what else that mouth can do.”
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Scenes from a weekend at the lake house.
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- Part 1 of Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
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“I can’t untangle it in a day. We live together, we have a lease. It’s complicated.”
“ ‘We live in a society.’ ”
“Exactly.”
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After the weekend.
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- Part 2 of Le vent nous portera
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“So,” Max says. “Toronto.”
"Yeah."
"Ditching us for those anglophone fuckers."
"Yeah."
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An AU where Matt is the one who decides to leave.
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Kevin McAfee and the Excellent, Delightful, All Good, No Bad Day by FLWhite for hallo_catfish (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019)
23 Feb 2022
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An alternate version of the farewell party, and after.
McAfee ex machina.Or: what do you do when two Quebecois who clearly want to bone each other's brains out refuse to just get down to it? You offer to bone 'em both, of course.
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Brass:
Matts a crazy man
what kind of midlife crisis is this
who took him to the airport?
Sarah?*
Post-canon. Matthias Ruiz and grand, desperate gestures.
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- Part 1 of Après
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An Unraveling String That Pulls and Pulls by zetaophiuchi (ryuujitsu)
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019)
13 Nov 2021
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“When this is over,” he says, “this quarantine, we can get tested, we can do it bare—”
They’re going to be late to dinner.
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Matthias and Maxime in November 2021.
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- Part 4 of Miss You Like a Home
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Midnight. The streetlight is flickering. Matt stands beneath it. Smoke floats upward and vanishes into the dark.
He slinks up with his hands in his pockets. “You sure know how to make a guy feel welcome.”
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Max comes home.
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Tuesday will be the first of September and the first day of a fourteen-day quarantine. Fourteen days: two weeks, two rooms, two people. He imagines Brass making a joke about Survivor or Occupation Double or whatever the fuck.
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Matthias and Maxime navigate quarantine.
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- Part 3 of Miss You Like a Home
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They wake up in darkness after midnight. The distance between them has flaked away as they slept, Matt’s fingertips resting on Max’s arm, their feet slotted together under the covers.
“You could come,” Max tells him, quietly. He’s got an elbow bent beneath his head, ear pressed to the blood-thump of his heartbeat there. “Come see me in Melbourne. Stay with me for a while.”
Or: Matt and Max spend the weekend together. Max tries to reconcile his feelings with his plans.
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So Long Brother, What Have You Done To Me? by osterran
Fandoms: Matthias & Maxime (2019)
15 Nov 2020
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Max is gone, and Matthias can move on with his normal life. His regular job, regular couple life and regular relationship with his best friend.
At least, that's how this was supposed to go down, but when Maxime has a confession to make, his best thought-out plans are once again compromised.
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You love that creative titling, I know it.
Four short Matt and Max vignettes; one pre- and three post-film.
First vignette set when the boys are in high school, hence the "underage" warning. All mutual sexual contact features them being of age, however.
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Marc_Antony: They like each other. It’s obvious.
Marc_Antony: Come on guys.
Marc_Antony: Nobody knows them better. We can do this. Are you in?The world is a hard place but friendship is magic. (Matthias and Maxime, retold through the groupchats of the gang.)
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“It’s not a big deal,” Max says. He sounds cheerful. In the background, Matt hears music, voices, and gulls. “Remember SARS? I don’t.”
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Matthias and Maxime navigate lockdown.
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- Part 1 of Miss You Like a Home