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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    "Jesus. You got that photographic memory or something?"

    Gale shrugs, shaking back into his usual reticent personality. John only knows the word because he'd spied it on one of Gale's report cards, written in neat teacher cursive. He had looked it up afterward, stepping foot into the school library for the first and only time in his academic career so far.

    "Something, I guess," Gale says.

     

    -- scenes from a Good Will Hunting AU

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    09 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    But John isn't anybody else. He's John, and he knows Gale. At least, he used to think that, before Gale got wed and bed and slowly stopped returning his calls.

    "Can I stay here?" Gale asks. The words come out rough, like it pains him to say them. John feels his eyes widen in his face. "Just for a couple days."

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    Or, eight years after the war, Gale Cleven shows up on John’s doorstep with a suitcase and a secret.

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    08 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    John talks to it the way he used to talk Gale through his moods over cheap cigarettes and watered-down whiskey. It's a habit he never kicked, needing someone at the receiving end of his monologue. At least the dog doesn’t call his bluff, nor judge him for the deceptions he tells himself.

    Some evenings he sits on the porch with a beer and the dog puts its head in his lap and he thinks, alright, alright. This is enough. This can be enough.

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    John found a dog outside a bar. He almost named it Buck.

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    05 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    Scenes from a wedding.

    Post S3, with flashbacks to S2-S3 interim.

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    24 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 69

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    The years after Culloden and before Claire goes back to the stones, Jamie finds that he can love again.

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    13 Mar 2026