#tpp fic

[autistic-daisy-johnson]

butterfly in my stomach, wasp in my gut

Peter Nureyev finally allows himself to collapse, heaving as he kneels on the tile floor. “You’re okay. Just breathe through it, babe, you’re gonna be okay.” “Wh—Juno? I thought—love, what are you doing?” There is an icepack on his neck, a hand on his stomach, and a detective on his shoulder, and he is unsure about how any of those things got there. Juno’s eyebrows wrinkle. “Uh, making sure you’re okay? You looked like you were about to hurl when we were playing Kanagawa-opoly. And, I mean, honestly I wouldn’t blame you if you did, but—” Nureyev wishes he could listen to Juno ramble until Sol explodes, but his stomach has other ideas. ... Nureyev has always had a sensitive stomach.

a series of vignettes exploring nureyev's chronic nausea.

[whumpdoyoumean]

Whumptober #5

xxx you better pray i don’t get up this time around

“The window,” Nureyev says, veering left. 

“The window?” Juno repeats, not sure at all that he likes this plan. Very certain, in fact, that he does not. 

“The window!” Nureyev fires two shots at the glass, shattering it. “Bend your knees, Juno. Tuck and roll. Remember your training!” And then he disappears.

“What training!” Juno shouts, and then he’s falling, and flailing, and the ground is rushing toward him fasttoofast and he does as Peter says and bends his knees before he hits the ground and maybe he didn’t do it right because there’s the sound of something going snap and his vision goes white and for a moment all he can do is scream. And then he looks at his leg and he screams again.

xxx 

Nureyev is about to make an attempt at picking himself up off the ground when he hears a sickening crack, followed by a pair of screams from Juno that makes the hair on the back of his neck stand up and his heart clench. He’s never heard his partner make a sound like that, not once. 

Not even in the tomb.

His pulse is racing as he scrambles to his feet and turns around. “Juno?” He closes the gap between himself and his partner in mere steps. He sees Juno’s face first, twisted in agony, eyes squeezed tightly shut. He sees Juno’s leg next, and has to turn away as his stomach does a backflip.

“My god.” He forces himself to take two deep breaths, regaining a bit of composure before he turns back to Juno and moves to his side, kneeling in the grass and not caring at all as the damp stuff presses into his bare knees. “Oh, Juno, my god,” he repeats under his breath, still not as composed as he’d like to be. “My-”

“-god,” Juno gasps, managing to look annoyed despite his obvious agony. “Yeah. Got it. It’s-it’s bad.”

“I think that may be a bit of an understatement, darling.” He tries to inject some humor into his voice and does a poor job of it as he grips Juno’s hand in his own.

He must have landed wrong. Very wrong, given that his bone, all jagged red and hints of white, is protruding from his shin. It’s bloody and it’s horrific and Nureyev honestly feels like vomiting, but that’s simply not an option. Instead he takes two deep breaths and pulls out his comm puts a finger to his ear as Juno lays whimpering and groaning and gasping beside him.

“Buddy, where are you now?” he says as soon as the comm crackles to life. 

The fear in his voice, the desperation, must be obvious because there’s a tinge of worry when she responds, “You okay, Pete?”

“We’ve got, um...a bit of a situation, here I’m afraid. Juno’s injured. His leg is broken.”

 “How did he manage that?”

It’s all my fault, he thinks, the thought making his chest go tight. Deep breath. “Can you get in closer, Buddy?” 

“...No. No, I’m sorry, Ransom. The anti-aircraft cannons would have us out of the sky before we landed. You’ll have to make your way to us. Is it bad?”

Nureyev almost laughs at the absurdity of the question, almost, except that Juno is in agony. The man’s hand goes limp in Nureyev’s at that moment, his pained noises quieting. Nureyev is concerned but not surprised to see that Juno has slipped out of consciousness. “Yes. It’s...It’s bad. What about Rita? Couldn’t she hack into them?”

“The computer’s on the fritz, dear, remember? There’s parts that need replacing.”

Nureyev lets out a string of curses under his breath. How could he have forgotten? 

“It’s just a little over a mile, Ransom. Do you think you can get him out?”

“I…” Nureyev shifts his gaze from Juno’s face to his leg and swallows back a bit of bile. “I’m looking at his bone, it’s…out in the open. I’m afraid to move him.”

“Vespa can talk you through stabilizing the injury. Or we can come to you on foot, but--”

“But it’ll take twice as long to get him back to the ship,” Nureyev finishes, heart sinking. “They’ll be coming for us. We don’t have that kind of time.” He closes his eyes and lets out a long sigh. “Tell me what to do.”

xxx 

Juno wakes up screaming. 

“I know, Juno, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. We’re almost there, darling. Just hold on for me. A little longer.” 

Nureyev is carrying Juno on his back, doing his absolute damndest to keep from jostling the man’s injured leg. But even with the improvised splint, Juno is still getting bumped around with every step.

“Ju-ju-stop! Stop, please! Please.” He breaks down into loud sobs. “Please. Fuck! Please, Nureyev, please.”

Nureyev finds himself biting back tears at the sound of his partner’s begging. 

“I can’t do that, darling. I’m so sorry. We must get you back to the ship so Vespa can do her work.”

Juno groans. “I hate you,” he mumbles.

He knows it’s the blood loss and the pain talking, but the words still send a shard of ice through Nureyev’s heart. He makes it a few more steps, and a few more shards puncture his ventricles, because he’s about to have to do something that he really doesn’t want to do.

Juno is slipping in his arms. 

“My love?” he says. 

Juno only grunts in reply.

“Darling, you’re going to want to brace yourself. I’m...I’m losing my grip on you and I’m afraid--I’m afraid I’m going to need to give you a boost.”

“Don’t.” The word comes out desperate and so very raw. “Nureyev, don’t!”

“Are you ready?”

“Don’t! Please, Peter please don’t do this please--”

Nureyev adjusts his hold on Juno, who barely manages to scream before going limp against Nureyev’s back. Nureyev steps a little faster, pushing himself to hurry, even just a little. His arms, especially his shoulders, are aching and his heart is hammering, his lungs burning, and he’s drenched in sweat. But it doesn’t matter because it’s Juno, stubborn, beautiful, infuriating, magnificent Juno, and Nureyev is going to fix this.

xxx 

[orangetubor]

Ummmm I have Juno brainrot now bcs I read this fic and now I'm crazy. Forever. Heres Juno.

I'm gonna add alt text after I get home from school BCS I have to GO like RIGHT NOW

[northisnotup]

oooh many tempting choices but I'm going with night moves 👀

[Blows dust off]

I'm in a Position with Night Moves, cause i should probably finish S4&5 of Juno Steel but also I like the canon divergence semi-au I've made here and I want to shelter it. The struggle I have with Night Moves is that it wants to be long, which preemptively exhausts me. But i love it and it does haunt me.

The monitor at the front desk chimed just as Rita, who’d been unusually quiet piped up, “Oh! Mista Steel! Company is coming!” "Take your coat off, stay a while," Juno murmured, flicking his eye to the monitor on the desk. "I'm good," Alessandra's lip curled in distaste and Juno fought down the instinctive need to come to the crappy motel's defense. Sure it was faded and out of style and dim and dingy, but it was his, damn it. It was clean, and it was the last safe place left in the whole fucking galaxy as far as he was concerned. "If I wanted -" "Take your god damned coat off and throw it over your arm," he barked, standing up to his full height and putting his hands on his hips. The bell over the door sounded like a storm warning. Juno didn’t look. "Look, do I want to leave? Of course I do. But I don't. Because we don't have the coverage! You didn't clear your time off with me, Missy, now get your ass back in that kitchen and sweat in the jello for all I care, or good luck finding yourself another job." "Go to hell," Alessandra spat, never one to be slow on the uptake. She swept past him into the back, and for his sake, Juno hoped he could get rid of the potential new customer before she had time to start poking around and find something she shouldn't. Projecting as much Hyperion ‘what do you want and make it snappy,’ as he could into his voice, Juno didn’t bother to look up as he slipped back behind the front desk and prattled off the usual spiel. “Hello traveler, welcome to the Penumbra, the finest hotel/motel this side of nowhere. Show me your token, set your price limit and we’ll start talking rooms.” Key. Key. Key. Damn it all, where did R- “Prices? I’m terribly sorry, I know this is my first time patroning the establishment, but I’ve already purchased the token.” Said token was pushed across the front desk til it was just about under his nose. J-17, huh? “Purchased?” Juno whistled low, a grin beginning to creep onto his face even through the haze of annoyance that someone ‘tidying’ his space always inspired. “Damn, who’d you piss off, Buddy or Vespa?” He could have told the guy that token’s weren’t required to be handed in until checkout, but he was already annoyed this morning and had no qualms taking it out on whatever poor sod the captain sent his way. So, he pocketed the chip and hazarded a glance up. “Excuse me?” Oh! Wow. It wasn’t professional to whistle at guests. Not even ones as good looking as this guy. He was…sharp. It was the first word that came to Juno’s mind and lingered there. Sharp jaw, sharp smile, sharp suit. “The token,” he said slowly, tongue feeling thick in his mouth, “only means you’re able to rent a room here. If they made you pay for the token too, you must have pissed them off. My money’s on Vespa.” “Ah.” The man nodded, almost to himself. “That would be why the smile. And the laughter.” “Cackle, you can call it what it is.” Juno shrugged. “I would never.” The man held out his hand to shake. “Rex Glass.” “Juno Steel."

[nagiru]

Juno doesn’t always have the energy to care for his own hair. Luckily for him, his boyfriend is more than happy to help him with that.

[rimetin]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rita & Juno Steel, Aurinko Crime Family & Rita Characters: Rita (Penumbra Podcast), Juno Steel, Buddy Aurinko Additional Tags: Missions Gone Wrong, Phone Calls & Telephones, Rita-centric (Penumbra Podcast), Junoverse | Juno Steel Universe, Hurt Juno Steel, Background Aurinko Crime Family (Penumbra Podcast), POV Alternating, a rare instance of me writing in past tense, only for the flashbacks tho Summary:

“Mista… Ransom?” Rita manages to mumble through the pounding in her head. Mista Ransom. Peter Ransom, Not-Ransom, Nureyev. She remembers. They’re not in Hyperion anymore, nowhere even near Mars, and haven’t been for months. She’s not a secretary and Mista Steel isn’t a detective and their home is the Carte Blanche, the most glorious spaceship in the universe with the best crew and they’re… family.

The line is quiet for a few seconds. “Rita?”

She tries to sit up, groans when the movement makes bile rise in her throat. On the other end of the call, Ransom pipes up again. “Rita, are you hurt? Where are you? What happened?”

 A heist goes wrong, and Rita finds herself alone, with Juno injured and unconscious.

[reyev]

never got over that dame

rated E | 4/? chapters | 49k+ archive warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Peter Nureyev, private eye, had a chance encounter with a brilliant, beautiful lady who left his head spinning. Nothing prepared him to face the lady down again, nor the catastrophe that could follow. He had to admit, though: he wouldn't trade it for all of Mars.

My current biggest project, the Reverse AU! Detective Nureyev meets Juno Steel, a mysterious lady from beyond the planet that has been his home for 30 years. Currently in progress.

author's note: Sex scene is optional and can be skipped while following the plot. Fic would be rated T if not for explicit content.

[alwaysyourqueen]

Hey so. The Penumbra Podcast huh. I've written over 70k words for it in the past month and show no sign of stopping, so I decided to make a masterpost here. My AO3 is alwaysyourqueen and you can find all of my work there. There will be blurbs/summaries under the cut here to avoid spam. Always mind the content warnings!

Canon and/or Self-Contained

not very good company at the moment rated T | 1/1 chapters | 6.5k archive warnings: none Always use protection, kids. Peter Nureyev is freaked out by his body's rebellion, and what that could mean for a future for him. Vespa Ilkay has to look out for her least favorite patient. Juno Steel solves a mystery he really didn't want to have to solve.

Juno Steel and the Ransoms rated T | 1/? chapters | 5k archive warnings: none Juno Steel is not prepared for two mysteries wrapped in sharp teeth and intrigue to show up in his life. Then again, he's never been prepared for anything, so why should this be any different? The Carte Blanche crew has seven members — Juno Steel, Buddy Aurinko, Vespa Ilkay, Rita!, Jet Sikuliaq, Peter Ransom, and Liana Ransom.

Ponder the Manner of Things rated G | 2/2 chapters | 9.5k archive warnings: none Juno is rather suddenly ripped from his day-to-day when a piece of his past quite literally walks up to him. It turns out that he's not quite done with Diamond Hijikata — or her daughter.

Take Me Away (From This Shitty Planet) rated T | 1/1 chapters | 2.6k archive warnings: none In the age of Jedi and the Republic, one former Jedi is trying to leave Coruscant. He employs a smuggler to do so.

Detective Nureyev and Con Artist Juno (AKA Role Reverse AU)

never got over that dame rated E | 4/? chapters | 49k+ archive warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Peter Nureyev, private eye, had a chance encounter with a brilliant, beautiful lady who left his head spinning. Nothing prepared him to face the lady down again, nor the catastrophe that could follow. He had to admit, though: he wouldn't trade it for all of Mars. author's note: Sex scene is optional, fic would be rated T if not for explicit content.

Spider-Juno and Black Cat Nureyev (AKA Spider-Man AU)

You Can Be Their Super Steel rated T | 1/1 chapters | 3.4k archive warnings: Major Character Death Juno's life changed when he became Spider-Man. He didn't realize just how much it could change after that.

Juno Steel and the Black Cat rated T | 2/? chapters | 10k+ archive warnings: Major Character Death The people of Hyperion City refer to the thief as the Black Cat. It’s a cute enough moniker, though he doesn’t wear cat ears or even claim to have a name. Spider-Man calls him many things, when they’re next to one another. Lips next to ears, masks pulled partially away, other things pulled more away. A name, a spider, a cat. A whole lot of messy, messy feelings.

Acrobatics rated E | 1/1 chapters | 1.3k archive warnings: none No one goes into the superhero or other costumed personality business because they don't love an edge of danger. Spider-Man and the Black Cat decide to add a little something special to one of their acrobatics practices.

Dahlia Rose and his Duke (AKA Dahlia and Duke Rose are cover names for organized crime)

Heavy is the Head rated T | 1/1 chapters | 2.6k archive warnings: none Dahlia Rose protects his investment. His Duke, his newest right hand. To the rest of the world, his love.

Deny It To A King? rated E | 1/1 chapters | 3k archive warnings: none Duke takes Dahlia in his office.

[nocturnnalex]

glacial melt

by nocturnalex

(click to read)

Very early in life, Peter Nureyev learns what it is to lose: to lose family, to lose the warmth of another, and to lose his very own existence. The cold has clung to Nureyev’s bones for decades. In a futile attempt to escape the chill, he buries his identity, and Peter Nureyev becomes that of the past.

Peter Nureyev is meant to be dead, but with the newly found warmth of another, Juno Steel, followed by a group of criminals on a high-steaks heist, his glacier begins to melt, and the boy beneath awakens.

multi-chapter - 65k - teen and up

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hello! this is my fic for the 2023 penumbra bang! I'm very excited to share this with you all, i hope you enjoy it! :D

special thanks to @koscheib for drawing the beautiful artwork in this fic, to the @penumbra bang team for helping me out all through the process, and to @prydon for beta reading - i could not have done it without you all!!

[whoknowsyourfuture]

Chronic Pain • Exploitation • "Let 'Em Laugh In My Face, I Don't Care."

Day 6 of whump: the musical! Thought this situation was absolutely perfect for this set of prompts when I heard the episode. Hope you enjoy!

Summary: Peter reacts to Slip's situation at the end of S5 E14.

[choofs]

if you think vespa and juno are sibling coded and they should maybe hug but be really bad at it this is for u, ok bye now

[starsprinkledwaters]

the feminine urge to write a vesbud tlou au fic

[orangetubor]

Ummmm I have Juno brainrot now bcs I read this fic and now I'm crazy. Forever. Heres Juno.

I'm gonna add alt text after I get home from school BCS I have to GO like RIGHT NOW

Edit: alt text added!

[nagiru]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Benzaiten Steel & Juno Steel Characters: Benzaiten Steel, Juno Steel Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Major Character Death is almost canon, the divergence starts straight away, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sarah doesn't get her shot wrong, Alternate Universe - Benzaiten Steel Lives, Juno Steel does not, Pre-Canon, up to the end of season 1 Summary:

Sarah Steel pulls her trigger and gets what she always wanted.

(or: a sibling was always meant to die that day)

[crazydreamer6]

THANK YOOOOUUUUUU YOU ARE SO SWEET AND I'M SO FLATTER AND GLAD AND HONORED TO CALL YOU FRIEND AAAAAAAAAAA 💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜

If this recommendation works, the fic is here: Lily and Honeysuckle

🥤

🥤: recommend an author or fanfic you love

OK IM TAKING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHAMELESSLY PUT MY FRIEND @crazydreamer6 ON A PEDESTAL ALL OF YOU NEED TO GO READ ZIR FIC LILY AND HONEYSUCKLE RN EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WTF THE PENUMBRA PODCAST IS BCS ITS SO GOOD . LITERALLY SO GOOD . I'm genuinely obsessed with it , it is everything to me . literally does not require any listening to the penumbra podcast bcs that podcast is not actually that good and ze has literally just written an entire separate universe in there ough it's so good . I've left many comments that went past the ao3 character limit simply because I love l&h so so much . ough . also adri's just delightful and I love zir so much <3

[reyev]

Open Space

rated T | 1/1 chapters | 2.7k archive warnings: none apply

The Aurinko Crime Family is having a well-earned relaxation weekend on a beach planet (this one with modern amenities such as indoor plumbing). Unfortunately, something drives Ransom away from the festivities.

Beach episode is the new PCC prompt…and I decided to make it Jupeter hurt/comfort. Because. Sometimes Nureyev needs comforting!