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Randy has struggled to keep his head above water for nearly four years, and when he runs into his coworker in the steam room at the public pool, everything he tried to keep down resurfaces.
None of it is Benson’s fault.
Randy was a swimmer in high school. He’s not anymore. A locker room is kind of like a closet.
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The man with hair hanging over his dark eyes and one hand covering an entire tallboy beer can is thirty two. That’s fine. Randy’s fine.
Randy Bradley meets Benson at a house party and humiliates himself a little. And maybe Benson likes that, just a little.
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“He’s terrible,” Merlin told Gwen in a candlelit alcove hidden near the servants entrance to the great hall.
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“He’s terrible,” Arthur lamented to the empty air, sprawled out on his neatly made bed beneath the dim moon.Or: After a whirlwind day of hosting nobility and feasting, Arthur pines for something he can't quite verbalize and Merlin would like a little gratitude.
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Randy Bradley is bad at saying no.
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01 Feb 2026
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The listing went out to the appropriate places and an interview was held for a measly four candidates, of which three did not turn up. So, that was that.
Randy's first impression of the new boy, because he was a boy, was the memory that he was the same young man that he’d seen stabbing the end of a penknife into his thumb outside of the lonesome gas station where he filled up his car after work. He’d made brief eye contact with him and then scurried off because the smile he’d gotten in return had made the ends of his hair frizz and his stomach turn. The car he drove was old, a manual transmission, and after he’d fumbled with his keys and got the car going, he had stalled the engine twice with the thought of the tip of the knife slicing through the boy’s thumb.
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written for the tumblr anon prompt, "ranson, but their ages are reversed". Randy trains the new BBB employee, a twenty-one year old called Benson, across the first five days of the job. Wanting and needing are two very different things.
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02 Sep 2025
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Fifteen years after Benson’s killing spree, the world has moved on. The state police claim he’s dead, and no one besides Randy has ever disagreed with them.
Freshly divorced, dissatisfied with life and staring down the barrel of a mid-life crisis, Randy realizes that for him, there’s no moving on without knowing – he needs to find out what really happened to Benson, no matter how painful the truth may be.
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25 Sep 2025
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It's hard to say how long they've been driving. It's even harder to say where they're headed. Stuck with a homicidal maniac dead set on having a good time, Randy does what he can to keep Benson from hurting anyone else.
The cops will catch up to them eventually. They always do, don’t they?
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14 Oct 2025
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It starts with her, in a way. Starts with her bathroom counter, half-empty pill bottles and scattered hot rollers and the dark curiosity to know what’s more important than him. Starts with 40s and a dare he makes with himself, alone in his room. It ends up here, in the shadow of her sick bed. Exhausted. Clean, mostly. Broke and back in his childhood home, a high school diploma and accidentally acquired plaque declaring him Employee of the Month! the only thing to show for thirty five years on this big, green earth.
“Yeah, Randy,” he says. “It’s a thing I do.”
(the dealer Benson AU)
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21 Oct 2025