The Wish AU
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if it’s meant to be (then it will be) by nonalovesyou
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
19 Nov 2025
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“Ray, baby, wait—“
“Stop!” Ray screams, so loud his voice cracks. “God, f-fucking stop it with the ‘baby’ crap! You know, you m-m-made me — you made me think — I thought we were O-O-Orpheus and Eurydice, walking out of hell, you know?”
“Ray,” Pete says helplessly. “I don’t know what that means.”
His big, dumb cow eyes are mean with tears. “The poet,” he shoves Pete in the chest, “and the f-f-fucking corpse.”
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and Ray brings Pete breakfast in bed. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 1 of The Wish AU
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swear to you I’ll give you more than I have tonight by nonalovesyou
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
25 Nov 2025
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“I’m making you dinner. We’re gonna have a d-d-date.”
Pete’s eyebrows lift in interest. No, in surprise. “A date?”
Pride swells in Ray’s chest. Pete’s not easily surprised. Sometimes it feels like he’s ten steps ahead of Ray, not just in recovery but in life, like he’s got in all figured out and he’s just waiting for Ray to catch up.
“A date,” he confirms.
“Well,” Pete says, hushed and reverent, “I’ve never been on one of those before.”
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and Ray makes Pete dinner. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 2 of The Wish AU
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“You know,” Missus Garraty says, “he walked late. I was so worried, but William — his daddy — he told me not to. Ray would do it when he was ready. And then one day, he just pushed himself up and walked right over to me. His first steps, towards me.” She sighs, rickety and nervous. “When he learned to walk again, his first steps were towards you.”
That much is true. Pete, standing at the end of a railing with his hands held out. Ray, clutching that same railing for dear life and whimpering with every step until he could grab onto Pete and collapse against his chest. They sunk to the floor together, Ray fighting tears and Pete shushing him softly, until the nurses brought over a wheelchair.
“Is this where you tell me it’s better I leave?” he asks. “And warn me to stay away from him?”
Months after the walk, months of recovery, and Pete grabs the mail while Ray makes lunch. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 3 of The Wish AU
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“And the Major?” Mom asks stiffly.
“Asked me how my wish was treatin’ me,” Pete whispers. “Asked me if I regretted it.”
Ray still wants the Major dead. Maybe even more than he used to. Ray would kill him with his bare hands if he could — but they’re too clumsy and his grip is too loose to do any real damage. That’s what the Major means, asking Pete if he regrets saving Ray. Do you still like your toy, now that it’s broken? Don’t you wish you’d left it on the ground with the strings cut?
“. . . and?”
When Pete smiles at him, it’s like the sun coming out. “Only regret is I didn’t kiss you sooner.”
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and Ray makes dessert to celebrate Pete coming home. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 4 of The Wish AU
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There’s a poster with Peter McVries’ face posted outside the grocer’s.
Actually, there are a few posters with Peter McVries’ face posted outside the grocer’s. They’re in the window in a line, one after another, freshly printed and still crisp at the corners. They must’ve gone up in the last twenty-four hours, replacing promotions for low prices and when local vegetables will be in season. It’s not a Peter McVries she recognizes.
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and Ginnie Garraty picks up some snacks from the store. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 5 of The Wish AU
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carve into my marble (now you’ll never be apart from it) by nonalovesyou
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
14 Feb 2026
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Ray wants to kiss for hours. He fills whole days with it, pecking at Pete’s mouth until they’re both chapped and slick from spit, going kiss-drunk and lax and soupy with affection. He kisses Pete’s cheeks, eyelids, his nose, his chin, every part of his body he can get his mouth on. And it’s not sloppy, sexy kissing, is the thing — or, not just sloppy, sexy kissing, the kind that’s meant to push the moment along to more. It’s schoolyard kind of stuff, just Ray’s closed lips pressing against his scars, dropping doting kisses up the jagged length of skin healed not-quite-right.
Pete’s not really sure what to do with it.
The affection, that is.
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and things are already spiraling when Ray brings Pete something he asked for a long time ago.
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- Part 6 of The Wish AU
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if you could do it all again (I’d be someone that you never met) by nonalovesyou
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
30 Mar 2026
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When he squints up, it’s Jan standing there.
It’s a funny thing, to see her and know, logically, that she’s beautiful, but not feel it. Jan is all-American kind of beautiful. Like Stebbins. Not like a movie star or a model, but the every-man kind of girl they’d put on a poster to convince guys to sign up for the military.
“Hi,” she says, “Ray.”
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and Ray waits outside a store for Pete. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 7 of The Wish AU