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once i ran from you (now i run to you) by arsonsmatch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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That’s because he’s my boyfriend, Mike!” Will shouts.
“And us?” Mike presses, a sick sense of deja vu creeping coldly over his brain.
Will exhales sharply, “We’re friends. We’re friends! You made sure of that. So I don’t know why you’re so mad at me!”
“Because it was supposed to be me!”
Will blinks, “What are you talking about?”
“I’m mad because it was supposed to be me!” Mike shouts it desperately, like a plea, like this is making him go crazy, and fuck, maybe it is, “After everything—at the end—it was meant to be me. Not him. I don’t want it to be him. I want it to be me.”
Or, Mike doesn't realize his own feelings, until Will's are staring him dead in the face. Vecna's gone, they're nearing the end of their senior year, and all of a sudden Will has a boyfriend. Everything goes downhill pretty quickly from there.
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Bookmarked by GunGun
22 Feb 2026
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♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
This is fucking dinosaur bones. This is essential life-fuel. This is the Grand Canyon. This is a rainbow. A miracle. The human race. The vast expanse of the universe. Life has meaning. My mind has been blown, my life changed, my body never the same. I could see it play out like a movie in my head and I savour every beat of it. My religion, my first fruit, a scripture. How do you fall UP to heaven? Just read this fic.
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i can be needy (way too damn needy) by summerofsecrets
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 May 2026
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Two months of long-distance has turned Mike and Will’s letters into a lifeline. But when Jane accidentally mails a letter containing Will’s private fantasies, the distance between Hawkins and Lenora officially catches fire.
What follows is an escalation of provocative Polaroids, a "ruined" letter, and an oversized Hellfire shirt that smells like home. Across a 1,500-mile phone line, the metaphors of "cleric and paladin" are finally stripped away, replaced by raw hunger and a promise: when Mike gets to California, he’s going to mark every inch of Will's skin.
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Bookmarked by GunGun
21 Feb 2026
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“Now Randy,” he says, low and careful and right against his mouth, “you’ve gotta remember that when I tell you to do things, it’s for your own good. Right?”
Randy’s having a hard time keeping his eyes focused on just the cigarette or just on Benson — both are so close that his eyes keep making them blurry.
“Uh— Uh-huh.”
“So when I tell you you’re gonna smoke,” he continues, “that means you’re gonna do what?”
Randy’s stomach drops. He doesn’t understand — doesn’t understand how Benson making him smoke is for his own good. He knows it’s not. He wants to ask, but knows Benson will just punch him for it instead, so he doesn’t. He feels his teeth clench together; Benson’s fingers flex along his jaw, feeling the muscle twitch.
“Randy.”
He relents. He feels like putty, all his nerves spooling and tangling and getting crossed to make him numb.
“I’m gonna…” Randy swallows, feeling breathless. “I’m gonna smoke.”
Bookmarked by GunGun
28 Oct 2025
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so like the scent kink fic with the pretty prose and self loathing I climbed it and I was like wow peak and then I turned to see mt everest and my jaw dropped; no this is fuckign peak--- reminder to comment / better bookmark holy shit this Benson is nicotine
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hurricane season (can't get the stink off / you do it to yourself) by avrilsboy for Incy Little Spider (1ncylilspider)
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
18 Aug 2024
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When he turns his head to glance inside, eyes seeking for something to do without a customer to handle, Benson sees how his hair’s matted down to his forehead under the bill of his cap, sees the sparkle of sweat above his lip. Bradley doesn’t notice him looking, never does, but especially not now as he wavers in his spot in front of the register from the movement. His eyelids flutter a little, and Benson thinks too belatedly that the kid’s gonna eat tile if he doesn’t sit down.Benson looks away, back down to the table, squeezing his eyes shut hard for a second and pressing his thumb to the spot between his brows. The heat’s making his mind run too fucking slow.
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He eyes Benson’s jacket one more time before turning to grab a dishrag and heading back to the counter. He passes by Benson mopping near one of the back tables and, this close, he’d know he was passing by Benson even with his eyes closed. He always smells like what Randy imagines the smoking section of a bar is like.That was the other tell, he realizes belatedly — the green coat smells like musty cigarettes. Rained-through and dredging up to surface all the stale smoke embedded in the threads.
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Randy ran a shaking hand through his hair. “No. No, I’m dreaming. This is a hallucination. I’m dreaming. Something!” He sucked in an unsteady breath, squeezing his eyes tight and counting to ten. When he opened them, Benson still stood there in that ugly yellow sweater ruined with the splatter of his blood, much to Randy’s chagrin. His mind replayed in its eyes what it looked like to see Benson collapse to the ground, weighted down with several leaden bullets piercing his flesh. He thought about how it looked to see Benson aim his gun at others, taking the shot and standing with a faint, blood-patterned smile as the bullets sprayed guts and viscera all over the restaurant. The circle of death, he supposed.
It was funny, how his mind could change so quickly. Just that morning, he had been ever-so-grateful to Benson for changing his life. And in a way, he still was. But now, with the man himself standing in front of him, illusion or not, Randy couldn’t help but lash out. Benson had taught him that, after all.
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another ghost benson au
Bookmarked by GunGun
26 Sep 2025
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Ghostie Benson and Freakazoid Randy…. <3 Nature is healing <3
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you beautiful but fucking awful thing by typhoid_fluu
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
24 Jan 2025
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benson & randy through the seasons
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- Part 2 of touch me i'm sick
Bookmarked by GunGun
26 Sep 2025
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When archeologists in the future dig up my bones, they’ll be fascinated at the two-thousand five hundred and seventy three words they’ll find carved into my very marrow. I know bone marrow is soft and hearty and won’t last a thousand years but this fic has made me go crazy.
“regardless, Benson died as he lived, and no one could say for sure what that was” I’m running myself over with a car but the car is this fic and it doesn’t hurt except it does but I still keep getting back in the car and laying down in the street <\3
SO GOOD
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Randy keeps prodding Benson after the run-in with Mr. Sheppard. That decision goes poorly for him.
Bookmarked by GunGun
26 Sep 2025
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Bro, I was shaking in my boots next to Randy in the car. He wasn’t crazily furious or anything— just a true, honest anger. And the whole swerving while arguing and all that chaos happening in such a short time. Well, I could put myself in Randy’s place, let’s say that. I could totally see this as a deleted scene. Nice mix of fucking angry and frustratedly infatuated with Randy Benson is. 👍👍
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Perhaps you are haunting me (what a comforting thought) by bankholdup
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
10 Mar 2024
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He doesn’t know what they did with Benson’s body. Randy guesses they cremated him and gave the remains to his mother. He thinks about driving over there and knocking on the door. A morbid part of him wants to see Benson, or rather what became of him.
Bookmarked by GunGun
24 Sep 2025
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Another Randy POV — Walking around trying to be okay with the fact that he’s okay but everyone’s talking like Benson is just a monster but he’s not and he doesn’t know who Benson is— was— but he’s sure it wasn’t as simple as that. They didn’t know how he could wipe Randy’s tears with a tender hand, same hand he beat that guy to death with, the same hand he used to push and punch Randy around but it soothed him anyway. They didn’t know Benson did all of this just to get Randy to care about his life. Randy didn’t know if that was just an excuse Benson used to break up the monotony of a dragging, dead-end life. Did Benson see himself in Randy? Is that why it made him so upset to see him barreling down the same path?
Benson is dead. So he won’t ever know.
😭
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Lucky. They kept telling him that as they cleaned the wound and sutured it up, Randy too numb from the exhausting events of that day to respond with just how unlucky he felt.
Bookmarked by GunGun
24 Sep 2025
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Common Randy L. Wanting to keep his bullet wound fresh and hurting. Thinks healing is for losers who get over the dudes who shot them. Can’t cope for the life of him. Look at what ya did, Benson, you wiped his tears, cared about his pathetic life and then you went and broke his heart.
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On the days he feels the loss so keenly it's like he's been shot again, he imagines returning to the diner.
Or: what grows in the aftermath.
Bookmarked by GunGun
24 Sep 2025
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So fucking guilty of loving the idea that Randy chases Benson’s after-image in other people and always ends up so fucking disappointed that it’s just not right. Just not him. UGH.
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“The fuck you think you’re doin’?” drawled Pa from the bedroom doorway, a six pack in one oil-stained hand, his keys in the other.
Benson leapt to his feet.(or; five times Benson considered pulling the trigger, and the one time he finally did.)
Bookmarked by GunGun
24 Sep 2025
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I’m very normal about this. No, I did not read it three times in a row, went to work, got home, and read it again to be able to formulate some sort of comment worthy enough but still failed. This is very very good Benson stuff. Feels like I really got into the mind of a thirty-whatever year old, Louisiana raised Benson. Chef’s kiss. No, Chef’s third base or some shit, really. Excellent.
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Randy's therapist suggest he should try writing, this probably isn't what she meant.
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Bookmarked by GunGun
23 Sep 2025
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JEEZUS. Talk about real complicated feelings. I hate you but I couldn’t have done this without you but you did it so violently, it stains the memory of you but the memory of you is all I have— JUST LIGHT ME ON FIRE IT WOULD HURT LESS. <\3
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Randy goes through the stages of grief and the time in the next four years after the incident at BBB and Benson’s death
Bookmarked by GunGun
23 Sep 2025
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“He could never understand how a man who was capable of so much good and so much love, could substitute it all for so long that it felt bitter and acrid on his tongue. Made him spit venom and strike like a snake, snap and roll like a crocodile.”
YES! YES! WOUNDED ANIMAL BENSON WHOS TEETH TURNED TO HATE — ONLY KNOWS HOW TO BITE AND HOWL. AHGHDJJ THE AGONY
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Sometimes I just can't believe you happened by toxiccoworkeryaoi
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
01 Jun 2025
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It's not that Randy misses Benson. He doesn't.
Bookmarked by GunGun
23 Sep 2025
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It’s not like Randy misses Benson, he just, ya know— wanted to know him past the frenetic, energetic mania of a man knowing he was going to die by the end of the night. Benson wasn’t in the ground, unreachable, but he was exactly a four and a half hours drive away and he could be reached by collect call for about three dollars and some change in exchange for fifteen minutes of Randy spewing his heart out to a man who didn’t know much of him either but sure did leave a hell of an impression.
This one hurted a lot. Randy just wants to be okay. But he’s not ;(
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The Butterflies in Your Stomach When You Sit in The Passenger Seat of His Car by CryingInTheClouds (Razr)
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
20 Apr 2025
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Pre-canon. Benson gives Randy a ride home, and Randy tries to think about his feelings.
Bookmarked by GunGun
22 Sep 2025
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As much as I love canon, I love these little everyday things too. Made what happened even more of a “what the fuck is happening” kinda thing. Love the little moments that show Bensons as being kind despite everything. Passenger by Deftones came on while I was reading and yup. Fits this to a motherfucking T!
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If you went digging around in Benson's car, you'd find a bottle of too-warm water that's probably safe to drink from. A spare high beam bulb, still in the packaging. A tire pump purchased almost twenty years ago for a blue bicycle. An even distribution of about thirty napkins. Enough change rattling in the glove box to buy a lottery ticket. He has everything you'd need to keep rolling down dirty roads with no end in sight.
The only thing missing from Benson's car is a gun or two.
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Bookmarked by GunGun
22 Sep 2025
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So fucking good. This Benson is my bread and butter. Beef stew. Hearty and filling and just what the weather called for. Edit: SO FUCKING PEAK. SO FUCKING GOOD. I RIP MY HEART OUT OF MY CHEST AND LEAVE IT BLOODY AND NASTY ON YOUR ALTAR FAWWWWWWWWWK SO GOOD>
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Randy was having an anxiety attack.
(Or: Benson lives and gets sentenced for 38 years in prison and Randy handles it very well.)
Bookmarked by GunGun
22 Sep 2025
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FELT. Randy tries the five senses thing to calm his anxiety attack and of course it doesn’t work. Crazy how this was about Randy and then I was like, “Wait is this fucking play about me!?” Nah, but seriously. That part really had me immersed bc that shit doesn’t work on me either. Poor Randy. Poor Benson. Sad.
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Randy Tries His Best by fromthebeginningthen for fifteenminutes
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
27 Aug 2024
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Randy develops a crush on his coworker and works himself up into propositioning him.
Bookmarked by GunGun
21 Sep 2025
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Randy’s such a loser 😭 Baby gay taking advice from online forums 😭 I’d like to think this humiliation spurs Randy into having a little bit more of a spine.
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Oh, all that I long for, worship and adore by entanglement, reserves
Fandoms: The Passenger (Movie 2023)
27 Oct 2024
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It feels like an offering. It feels like nature's signaling to him that he's meant to be the provider and the protector. He takes a deep breath and he pulls the trigger.
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- Part 1 of Hopeless, head over heels in the moment
Bookmarked by GunGun
22 Sep 2025
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Lonely creatures just yearning for connection-- Benson's a biting thing using his teeth to forage for just that
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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.
Bookmarked by GunGun
21 Sep 2025
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Don’t fucking touch me for sixteen business days. Don’t talk to me. Can you believe this arrangement of words and prose and dialogue was readily available for me to read for free??? God is real and I found it in this fic. (Probably) no amount of currency could make me feel the way this fic made me feel. Who would’ve thought that random Saturday I spent scrolling for thirty minutes, food long gone cold, for something to watch would’ve ended up with reading some of the best things I’ve read to date. Wowzers. I love love.