20 Works in Art Baker/Collie Parker
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The cabin door slams open. Peeking through the loft's balustrade, Collie sees McVries and Garraty stumble inside, attached at the lips. Sighing, he thumps his head against the futon. Whatever. They'll continue into the master bedroom; as long as they don't get too fucking loud in there, he can pretend he never saw them.
Except they don't continue into the master bed.
(Or, Collie's plan not to rush his relationship with Art gets a little bit... de-railed.)
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- Part 2 of Collie Parker's Spring Break Nightmare
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Somebody To Love by hexxgirll
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
03 Jan 2026
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Gunshots tear through the miserable silence. Art perks up. A soldier is dead and Collie Parker is holding a gun.
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Collie's rebellion works and now he, Ray, Pete, Stebbins, and Art are on the run. Canada seems like their only option. They have to move slowly and carefully. They're tired, injured, scared, and Art Baker is falling in love with Collie Parker.
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As The World Caves In by finaldestinationed
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
02 Jan 2026
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It had been six long, despair-filled months since the world began its slow decline into madness. At first, Hank assumed it was nothing. A brief pandemic that would send everyone into hysterics and be done in the blink of an eye. Oh, how he wished that had been the case.
A mysterious virus has begun to make its way through the states.
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i'll look for you beyond the blue, i'll search among the stars by BackyardOwl
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
01 Jan 2026
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When the homesickness sets in, Collie decides to talk to Art instead of Ray.
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Collie pauses with one hand still on the car's roof, scanning the shoreline and surrounding trees with a look of disgust.
"Fucking hinterland," he mutters. "What kind of dipshit hick would want to live here— What?"
He snaps the last word at Art, who tries to smother his laughter. He doesn't succeed; Collie’s expression sours further.
"I'm sorry, man," Art giggles. "But you knew where we goin'. You could just not tag along."
Collie’s only rebuttal is a weak scoff.
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- Part 1 of Collie Parker's Spring Break Nightmare
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Waves Upon a Tropical Shore by prettyboyporter
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
24 Dec 2025
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Suddenly, Ray felt hyper-aware of every movement that Pete was making: the slide of the front of Pete’s thigh against the back of Ray’s, slow and sensual; Pete’s hand moving off of Ray’s arm, over his chest, rubbing lightly; Pete’s face pressing gently into Ray’s hair.
Ray hummed when Pete splayed his fingers across Ray’s belly.
“My dear boy,” Pete said. His lips dragged across the side of Ray’s neck.
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i'll fly away (o, glory!) by paulmescalien
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
23 Dec 2025
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It rains in King’s Ditch the day Barbara Jean Barkovitch dies.
The rain does not come gently. Storm clouds bloom like thick smoke from the east before rushing forward and swallowing the sky over the town whole just to crack it back open in a thunderous storm—a downpour of biblical proportion, Baker might say. Gary doesn’t know what that means. He don’t go to church no more—ain’t gone in a long time, really, not since he was a boy. And even when he did go, Gary never sat and listened to the sermons. He never read the bible or learned the hymns. He was always restless in the pews, itching for the second he’d be able to burst through the churchhouse doors and be set free again. Gary doesn’t know heads or tails of no biblical shit, no, but he knows a real bad storm when he sees one. He’d have to be fucking blind not to. Water cascades down from awnings and rooftops to flood the streets and gutters, running off the road and soaking soil thawed from the spring. A deluge runs down from the mountain to the valley like a cleansing river, washing clean the streets of King’s Ditch.
Gary Barkovitch wishes it would cleanse him, too.
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or, the one where Gary loses his meemaw and the boys come together for him
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- Part 2 of country roads, take me home
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Oh, Your Love Is Sunlight by hexxgirll
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
22 Dec 2025
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“Oh, here comes Ray,” says Richard.
They all look up. Ray’s walking towards them while talking with a guy; the guy Art saw on the bus this morning. His sleeves are still rolled up but now there are some drying streaks of paint on his skin. His headphones are resting around his neck and his hair is tied back.
“Hey guys!” exclaims Ray. “This is Collie Parker.”OR
Art thinks Ray's new friend has a nice laugh.
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Pete longs for a sweetheart.
He doesn’t remember his parents all that well but he knows they were in a deep, all encompassing love. He has faded photographs, letters they wrote each other, bundled up together in a shoebox under his bed. On a good day his Uncle would tell him stories about his parents if he were tipsy and feeling sentimental, the sweet spot he stayed in before he became belligerent and hot tempered. “Pete, my brother looked at your mama look she hung the damn stars in the sky.” He’d told him once. “'My whole world', that’s what he called her.”
Sometimes, Pete will lay in bed and stare up at the ceiling, listening to the snores of his roommate as he lets himself wax poetic. The love of my life could be on this very campus. He would think, biting at his lip to keep from smiling. My whole world could be just around the corner.
And he was.
or: Pete, a hopeless romantic against all odds, meets the love of his life on an unremarkable Friday night.
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- Part 1 of sweet talk
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Collie Parker’s bass teacher really tries to convince him to join a band. He does, reluctantly. It might not be as reluctant when he sees Art Baker.
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Barker band AU!!!
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Collie’s attention finally settles on Art's face. The bewildered, almost dreamy look in his eyes morphs into fury, eyebrows drawing together and chin jutting. "Who did that to you?" he snaps. "What happened?!"
Art blinks, feeling besotted even though he's still completely sober. He touches the crusting blood on his upper lip. "No one. This just happens sometimes."
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shake the frost by paulmescalien
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
03 Dec 2025
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McVries tells him about meeting Ray when he’d only just meant to be passing through Freeport. He casually asks Stebbins if he believes in soulmates while he’s elbow-deep in the ceiling, and when Stebbins freezes stock still on the ladder, he only laughs that easy laugh of his and keeps on describing their meet-cute like he wasn’t really expecting an answer anyway. It’s a sweet story. Romantic, at least in the way McVries tells it.
It’s the kind of story that twists Stebbins up in places he didn’t even realize could get knots until his smile looks like it hurts. It was love at first sight. McVries doesn’t ask if he believes in that, too, and Stebbins is grateful that he doesn’t have to stutter out an answer that he’s not entirely sure he knows.
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or the one where ray and pete buy an abandoned bar in a dying mountain town and hire a local carpenter named billy stebbins to help them restore ita small town love story nobody asked for told in four parts over four seasons
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- Part 1 of country roads, take me home
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“D’ya like soda?”
“I don’t have any more change.”
“That’s not what I asked, now is it? D’ya like soda?”
“Uh, yeah.” He glanced towards the fridge, taking a look at the inventory. “Pepsi’s my favourite.”
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Collie goes to visit his sister in Louisiana, there he meets Art Baker, who works at the local bakery.
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TLW one shots/head cannons/mini series by b1ng0
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
25 Nov 2025
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Taking requests from ANYONE!!! This fic is all for the long walk and its characters <3
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❝ the game is on again. a lover or a friend. ❞
They have an interesting method of choosing room assignments.
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A quiet company is shared between Collie and Art on the outskirts of a loud house party. Who knew bumming a cigarette could turn so intimate?
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“Then we agree. Promise to reunite with me after the end?”
“I promise, Art, I do.”
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Collie’s rebellion works. The aftermath is.. a lot.
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“I didn’t know you liked guys,” Art blurted out.
“Seriously? I know you’re religious, Art, but I didn’t take you as that kind, especially not with the people you hang out with. I don’t think there’s a single completely straight guy in the group-“
Art laughed. “No, no — not like that. I’m just.. surprised.” He smiled at Collie. “Pleasantly surprised.”
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Collie is fed up with Ray and Pete. Baker kisses him, everything gets better
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I Did It Wrong . by YNHEER
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
31 Oct 2025
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A beautiful wish in a rotten world.
The Walkers are returned to Ray, a gift from the government.
Pete, or Peter, the Artificial Person -- as he prefers to be referred -- is the only non-hostile of the horde. He only wants to help.
But, he's The Worst .Series
- Part 1 of I Did It Wrong
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big sky country by classicalreader313 for xanthippe
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
05 Jun 2020
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"It was one of those spur of the moment, halfway drunk promises that you don’t think will ever come true."
Art Baker, Collie Parker, Abraham, Pete McVries, and Ray Garraty embark on a cross-country road trip to Montana, traveling nearly 3,000 miles to see some stars.