Close Enough to Stay - {DEKUBAKU}

Close Enough to Stay - {DEKUBAKU}

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AS OF MARCH 4TH, I AM ON HIATUS! ART IS ALSO NOT MINE! I DONT MEAN TO TAKE SOMEONE ELSES CRED! {DISCLAIMER - ALL CHARACTERS ARE NOT MINORS. THEY ARE ALL OVER THE AGE OF 18 SO PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THE SEXUALIZATION OF MINORS IS TAKING PLACE!} This story includes: cowboy hat rule, homosexuality, obsessive attractions, attachment issues, sex, desire, smut, and many strong emotions. Bakugou comes into town for a college break, expecting nothing more than heat, boredom, and a short visit with distant relatives he barely knows. One night turns different when his cousins drag him to a local bar for a small reunion, and a quiet cowboy walks in like he belongs to the place in a way Bakugou never will. The man tips his hat to everyone, drinks, watches, and eventually makes a choice Bakugou doesn't understand-placing his hat on Bakugou's head and stopping the room cold. Everyone else knows what it means, even if Bakugou doesn't. What starts as a bold, wordless claim turns into weeks of slow, intentional closeness, where Deku takes his time learning Bakugou and Bakugou fights the pull as hard as he can. But summer ends, college waits, and wanting someone doesn't always mean you get to keep them. With time running out and distance closing in, Deku has to decide how far he's willing to go to make Bakugou stay, and Bakugou has to choose whether the life he planned is worth leaving behind what feels like home.
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Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

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