Title: Come Marching Home

Title: Come Marching Home
Author: Cosmic Tuesdays
Fandom: Team Fortress 2
Pairing: None
Rating: PG
Notes: Thanks to Amp and Kara for cheerleading, and Toxo and Teratomarty for beta-reading.
Summary:

O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play. – “Tommy,” Rudyard Kipling


( He didn’t even take off his helmet when he sat down at the bar, just growled at Richard for a beer, really growled, like a junkyard dog. It wasn’t the growling or the time of day that got Richard’s attention, but that he hadn’t taken off his helmet to look him in the eye. That just wasn’t how things were done in Des Moines, even in this day and age. )

Title: Sustainment

Title: Sustainment
Author: Cosmic Tuesdays
Fandom: Team Fortress 2
Pairing: Heavy/Medic
Rating: R
Notes: Thanks to Amp and Kara for cheerleading, and Toxo for beta-reading.
Summary:

They could not carry much, as soldiers.
There was no past in their forgetting,
No self in the mass: the braver being,
The body that could never be wounded,
The life that never would end, no matter
Who died, the being that was an abstraction,
A giant’s heart in the veins, all courage. – “Gigantomachia,” Wallace Stevens


( He was in a hospital in winter, walking down aseptic white corridors and past people with faded faces, and he stopped to look at a door that knocking was coming from. It took Heavy a long moment for it to resolve and wake him up, the knocking on the door in the dream turning into knocking on the door in waking. )

Title: Qui Vivra, Verra

Title: Qui Vivra, Verra
Author: Cosmic Tuesdays
Fandom: Team Fortress 2
Pairing: Sniper/Spy, Heavy/Medic
Rating: NC-17
Notes: Thanks to Amp and Kara for cheerleading, and Toxo and Teratomarty for beta-reading.
Summary:

I spent my life becoming invisible
It’s hard to maintain, and it’s hard to get by
I don’t recall fight or flight setting in
I have no introduction
I just breathe it in like the air
And there’s nothing to remember
There is nothing to remember - “Nothing To Remember,” Neko Case


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( All told, Spy spoke a total of nine languages in varying degrees of fluency. )