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Fic: 5 People Who Have Seen Shift’s Baseline and 1 Who Hasn’t [3/3]

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One day, you’ll let down your guard and realize there’s a way to live that isn’t playing with knives.

Kilter’s words echoed in Shift’s head as she lay with her head in Watcher’s lap, choking on her own blood, a gaping wound in her chest as she struggled against her leader’s grasp to get up, to get fighting, to help her teammates.

When? she wondered, anguished. G—, when, Kilter? When would this world be anything but knives?

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Shift stepped out of her wedding dress and hung it on a peg behind the bathroom door. She walked out and stood in front of Kilter beside the bed.

No guards, no daggers, no masks of flesh or games tonight. He had finally put aside the soldier inside himself to raise their daughter. She had finally put aside her knives to save herself.

“I chose you,” she said, lips quirking in a smile as she cocked her head at him. It looked playful, but was it? She chose a long time ago to be herself with him and never let him accept less.

He reached up his hand and the world stood still. She reached up hers and her own molecules stood still. Their fingers brushed and there was nothing left between them. #