#Witness Protection

[neverthebabysitter]

Thinking about that prompt i found on TikTok about faking your death and then coming back and knocking on your best friend's door like nothing happened.

That but make Steve fake his own death accidentally, so he is clueless why Robin is freaking out when he goes to visit her.

(with a side of Steve going feral a la Jonh Wick and Die Hard over his car, i'm so normal about this, so normal, it's not like i use this like an oportunity to make a b99 reference, pff, Gertie who??? )

Like, i know nothing about witness protection and how faking your death would work, but, but- let's use our imagination.

Steve's father being a lawyer and messing with someone he shouldn't have. He ends up dead and because of this, the cops think they could go after Steve too.

Which, true, Steve has an accident that destroys his car (RIP BMW, I love you, but this is for plot reasons, you would be missed), so now he has to be under witness protection.

Steve, like the ball of repressed trauma and anger issues that he is, decides that the best thing to do is go after the people who destroyed his car, a la John Wick; because:

Going after them to avenge his father: no, thank you.

Going after them to avenge his car: yes, let me go for my bat.

That without forgetting to leave a cryptic message to Eddie's and Robin's voicemail.

While Steve is having his own action movie with handling the 'mob' and cops that kinda want to help, kinda don't care; the rest of the Party is freaking out because "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ONE INVITED HIM TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH SOMEONE AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIS CAR WAS FOUND IN THE QUARRY???".

Dustin asks Robin if something happened with Steve during christmas, like kissing under the mistletoe or something, only for Robin to say she didn't invite him because Eddie did, but Eddie hears that and goes, "Uh, no? I chicken out; I thought you would invite him after I didn't."

They asking around if someone invited Steve because it's kind of public knowledge that his parents suck, but no one did, and he hasn't come to the Party's Christmas party yet, so he's probably mad at them.

But Eddie and Robin are having a Bad Feeling™ because of the voicemails, and Hopper is being called to identify a car that it was found in the quarry that morning.

And Hopper knows that car, he has seen that car since Steve was a dumb teenager that got his parties busted by the chief. He hasn't seen Steve for a while. He wasn't at the christmas party. Where was he again?

The Party still isn't in the know, but Hopper is already looking for Steve but he can't find him and-

Remember that i told you Steve was in witness protection? Well, i think sometimes they fake their deaths, i'm not sure, but this is the perfect oportunity and cover to pretend that Steve died.

So the government uses it, and The Party doesn't know because different branch of the government and all that.

When Hopper founds out he doesn't know how to tell the other that Steve had an accident and they are still looking for him in the quarry; but they already know, they used Dustin's cerebro to find out what was going on.

Everyone is devastaded, and then, Eddie and Robin hear their voicemail again only to bring out that maybe it wasn't an accident, that maybe Steve did it on porpose.

And grief, pain, mourning, sadness, anger. Just a lot of feelings.

Meanwhile, Steve is kicking ass and using the Bad Guys™ headquarters like his own personal rage room.

Blablabla something something something.

Steve let out his anger, has a few personal realisations, lets himself think about the trauma he's endured all those years and comes back like a new person, ready to confess his feelings for Eddie Munson and let people care about him.

The first thing is go talk with Robin, she's probably worried about him and she probably knows better than him to help him confess to Eddie.

So he goes, only to be utterly confuse by the amount of tears, snot, yells and hugs that Robin welcomes him. It's not like he died.

Then Robin is flabbergasted by his Audacity.

Both of them fall into a bickering that makes Robin cry harder because she thought she wouldn't have this again and Steve starts to cry because Robin is crying and now they're both crying.

Needless to say, they catch up about all the things that happened in both ends.

It's not the end of tears, hugs and yelling, though.

Just give Steve all the confort that he refused to accept because he didn't think he deserved and that people didn't know how to give.

Fluff, Fluffy, Fluff. A bit of Steddie here.

Yeah, that's all.

[starshideurfics]

Bringing this over from biskie because @lulalulens wanted more baby trapping, and I know Steve would bring ip babies way too early unless he had a very good reason, thus:

Modern AU where they separately are witnesses to a huge drug/crime ring. Eddie is still a low-level dealer who turns in his bosses when one of his clients ODs when she shouldn’t have had enough of anything to kill her, while Steve was in the early days of dating a mob enforcer and overheard some things that he shouldn’t.

The feds decide it will be easier to keep them safe together, put them in a nice little house across the country, get Eddie a job in a pharmacy, and Steve works part-time in a bakery.

Steve gets really attached to his wedding ring, to having physical proof he’s loved…

Even if it’s fake.

And Eddie is so good at playing the part of the doting husband, bringing Steve flowers and taking him out for date night every thursday. It’s easy for Steve to forget they aren’t actually married. When he remembers the truth, he can’t help dreaming up ways to make it real.

The trial is coming up soon. They’ll testify, put a lot of bad people in prison for a very long time, and go their separate ways. Unless he can find a way to keep Eddie.

Steve’s never been able to keep a partner long, always too much, too needy, too “hot, but not the kind of person you marry.”

Eddie holds him when he wakes in the middle of the night from his bad dreams.

Eddie brings home ice cream because Steve mentioned craving Chunky Monkey.

Eddie calls him beautiful, and Steve believes him every time.

So he plans, he floats the idea of them having sex after he knows Eddie’s been jerking off in the bathroom, a simple, “So we can both get off, have a little fun. I promise, I’m way better than your fist.” And then Steve pulls off his underwear, and how can Eddie say no to Steve’s wet pussy right in front of him?

“Condoms?” he gasps as Steve guides his fingers to touch.

“You know I’m on the pill,” Steve husks back. “Don’t you wanna feel everything? How wet I am on your big cock.”

“You haven’t even seen my cock yet.”

“I can tell you’re packing,” Steve says with a smile, fingers in the waistband of Eddie’s boxers, pulling them down, grinning wider when he’s right.

Steve’s buys a pack of ovulation tests, uses them at work to track his cycle, anything to make sure it takes, even though he has no trouble getting Eddie to say yes to sex any time he asks.

Steve is visibly pregnant on the witness stand, with a new legal name and everything.

Eddie is his forever.

[coolnessgraphed]

[ihni]

Okay but the Hargroves being in witness protection, and that's why they moved to Hawkins?

Let's say that Max ran away from home because Neil was fighting with Susan, and then of course Neil was in a bad mood so he laid into Billy when it was discovered, because it was Billys job as a big brother to keep an eye on his sister. Billy is sent out to find her. And like, he knows she likes to skate in some abandoned parking garage so he goes there, and finds her just sitting there, and they actually talk a little and are on the same page about how it sucks to be in the family they're currently in.

And then there's a noise, from somewhere in the parking garage where no one should be. Billy goes to check it out even though Max tries to stop him, but he wants to see what it is. They creep closer to see a bunch of bad people doing a major drug deal or something, only one of the parties screws the other over so Billy and Max get to witness an execution. Max makes a noise, involuntary, and someone hears them, and Billy grabs Max and they make a run for it.

They make it out of there, they go to the cops, they do the whole witness thing ... And then, the whole family is placed in witness protection because of the threat to them.

Cue the move to Hawkins, Indiana - the middle of nowhere.

Everyone hates it there. Neil is angry and blames Billy, so he's harsher than he used to be, against everyone but mostly Billy. Max is angry she had to leave her friends and her school and she blames Billy too, for checking out the noise when she wanted them to leave. And Billy is also angry for all the aforementioned reasons, but he blames Max, because if she'd just stayed home - or hell, not made that sound which got them noticed - they wouldn't be here. (And Susan is just doing a bad job at trying to see the positive side of things)

Monsters was not what Max or Billy expected from this boring little town, but like, they've obviously seen some shit too.

And yeah, that's what I've got so far.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in witness protection from Springtrap from FNAF and during the trial I was set to testify in, he killed the judge.

[catfindr]

[myfairkatiecat]

white collar neal witsec-era fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64575544

Summary:

Danny Brooks' eighteenth birthday—or rather, Neal Caffrey's—changed everything for him. His father was a murderer. Suddenly, forgery felt like just another youthful hobby, like selling lemonade from a stand on the corner of the street. “What if I am like him?” he whispered quietly. All this time spent trying to follow in his father’s footsteps, believing that one day he’d join the police force and make everything right, and yet his crimes brought him closer to his father’s memory than joining the force ever would have.

I tried to balance the idea that Neal always sort of had an inclination towards breaking the law in him (forging a bus pass in second grade, stealing money because he didn't know any better, cheating at pool) with the fact that he really did want to work for law enforcement until he learned the truth about his father. Basically, this is my take on Neal's canon backstory and the day he chose to run away from home.

@permanently-stressed @nowjumpinthewater @doodle-do-wop @choasuqeen @notjupiter let me know if anyone else wants to be tagged/no longer tagged in my white collar fics!

[steddieunderdogfics]

MEMORIA (series) by emryses

@emryses

Rating: Explicit

81,955 words, 2/2 works

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags from first fic in series: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, 1990s, Eddie Munson Lives, Eddie Munson in Witness Protection, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Hurt/Comfort, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Steddie Big Bang 2023 (Stranger Things)

Summary:

It's January 1996 and Steve has recently moved to Pennsylvania for a new job as a children's librarian. Urged to do something with his evenings by Robin, he goes to a bar around the corner from his apartment and sees someone who looks an awful like Eddie Munson playing his guitar. Only no one has seen Eddie in almost ten years. Eddie Munson, whilst on the brink of death, was not so gently urged into the supernatural department of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program. The time he was in the program, he was stripped of everything he had and thought he knew, and was forced to become someone entirely new. He’s still trying to figure out who that person is. It’s been almost ten years, and in that time the only thing he has learned is that he is okay with being alone. He has to be. Otherwise known as, a story about finding the people you’ve lost, healing rifts (the personal kind, not the supernatural kind) and maybe for once, finally, falling in love.

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[laughingshadows]

2 broke girls is sooo underused in Marvel fanfiction 😩

[dropofbittersea]

It didn’t escape him that Steve shared his assumed last name. “Are you gonna be my cousin?” Bucky asked dully.

Steve frowned. “Husband, actually,” he said easily, holding up his left hand to show a typical golden band.

Bucky scowled and closed the door.

AKA

An AU in which Bucky is put in the witness protection program and Steve is the agent hired to protect him/pretend to be his husband.

[writtenroses1813]

Hot takes I think I should be put in witness protection for (these are just my opinions pls don’t feel offended if you like these tropes):

Enemies to lovers tropes needs to stop being so fetishized. When someone takes their significant other (either real, contractual, or arranged) by the THROAT and THROWS THEM AGAINST A WALL that is NOT “sexual tension” that is ABUSE.

Characters having a strong platonic relationship in which they are open to showing affection to each other does not automatically mean they have to be love interests. Let people have friends

Rivals (ESPECIALLY academically) does not automatically mean they are love interests. Because people are both good at the same thing and therefore competitive does not mean they have hidden feelings

Badass women (especially in fantasy settings) don’t have to be fully “battle forged” or whatever. They can have hobbies and the other women who are often looked at as “meek” and “damsels” are not any less badass for liking to sew or cook. Those hobbies are not “anti-feminist” just because they were what were expected of us women before rights. We have simply commandeered them for our own tastes and purposes

Blond hair male leads aren’t a turnoff

Just because a book has the same tropes used as another does not make it a “rip off” of said other book. Tropes are used just like character archetypes and the freaking alphabet. By that logic all books in the English language are a rip off of the freaking dictionary.

[rat-at-heart]

Has to go into the witness protection program (his fedora should be coming in the mail any day now)

[pedroam-bang]

The Last Of Us (2013)

[ladylilithprime]

Day 10: Mushrooms

(Part of the Grand Not-Coven of Palo-Alto series.)

SAM WESSON'S GARDEN was a truly spectacular work of time, effort, engineering, and spell work. It was the first thing any visitor to his properly noticed from the street and a favored place for friends and family to gather to spend time together just chatting and enjoying each other's company. Even if you didn't have a lick of sensitivity to the supernatural and mystical energies, the Garden was a visual marvel of growth and care, at least some parts of it always in bloom no matter the season. If you were sensitive to mystical energies, it was a massive nexus of magic, from the carved stones and mosaics that marked out the footpaths and plant beds to the plants themselves. It was the focal point of the wards Sam had built around his house and extended to the house next door where Dean Smith lived, and it was where the anchor stones for the wards Sam maintained around the homes and businesses of his "network friends" and Palo Alto as a whole were kept, continually renewing and recharging with every sunrise, moonrise, and rainfall.

As a licensed herbalist and practicing witch, it was no surprise that the Garden held a lot of the plants and herbs Sam needed for various potions, tinctures, and poultices, grown fresh and harvested with care to dry and preserve. The large glass greenhouse at one end of the Garden, which connected to the main house via the Solarium, held the more "tempermental" plants in their specially warded pots and beds, the ones that Sam's FBI contacts really wanted to pretend didn't exist for one reason or another. There was even a section of the Garden devoted to growing fruits and vegetables which Sam used to cook and gave to or traded with other members of the network. Frankly, the only thing that was surprising to people who had learned the secrets of the Garden was that Sam would need to go anywhere else for some type of plant.

Specifically, mushrooms.

"It's not that there aren't mushrooms in the Garden," Sam explained as he led the way into the woods behind the house, Bones cheerfully bounding ahead before circling back to dance around her favorite human and his friends. "The act of foraging is itself a part of the ritual, much like harvesting. A reaffirmation of life and sustainability amid death and decay as part of the cycle of the natural world."

"And they're really safe to eat?" asked John Castiel Novak curiously, stepping around a fallen branch even as he split his attention between Sam and the mushroom guidebook the witch had given him.

"Some are," Sam nodded, then shrugged. "Some aren't. And some of them are only safe to eat in certain stages of their growth, so pay close attention to that guide book and if you aren't sure ask me or Bones to double check."

"Too bad we don't have a pig along for truffle hunting," Cas's twin, James Constantine Novak joked, and then yelped as the golden retriever abruptly stood up and changed into a golden-haired woman with her hands on her naked hips.

"I'd like to see a hog sniff out the good mushrooms of all types and warn you away from the bad ones even half as well as I can!" she snapped. Then her indignation melted away into a mischievous smirk as she added, "Besides, Dean said he was never doing that again after he got dirt up his nose that was still there when he changed back."

"Bones," Sam groaned as Cas and Jimmy exchanged slightly alarmed looks. To the twins, he explained, "It was a dare from Andy to see if I even could change someone who wasn't my familiar into an animal, and Jess suggested a truffle hog to see if we could find some wild growing truffles to save some money on ingredients. Dean volunteered to be the guinea pig, and, well.... actual pig."

"And it worked?" Jimmy asked with interest. "No negative side effects?"

"Dean gained a better appreciation for vegetables as a food group, so your mileage may vary," Bones snorted, then slipped back into her canine shape with a cheerful yip.

"I, on the other hand, was exhausted, which is the real reason he said never again," Sam explained, getting tandem nods. The twins were well acquainted with Dean's intense protective streak when it came to Sam. "So Bones conspired with Dean to learn the scents of every mushroom in these woods and a few that aren't so she could be my primary hunting partner."

As it should be, Bones whispered in Sam's mind, answering his small smile with a lolling canine grin. Sam may have left the world of hunting behind along with the Winchester name, but there were some aspects he just couldn't give up completely. He rather suspected that, with the way the Novak twins kept coming back with their increasingly flimsy excuses, the hunting world wasn't ready to be done with him, either.

He thought he might could live with that.

[to-thecore]

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