In The Window Of My Life
I took part in the @zaundadsbigbang this year and had a blast! Huge thanks to the moderators and to @amlugon who made such wonderful art for chapter 4!!!
Title: In The Window Of My Life
Rating: E
Word Count: 12,027
Summary: Life in the good timeline is going smoothly... until the Arcane decides to pull Silco from the main timeline through and drops him right in the middle of the Last Drop and everything is turned upside down. Silco, hurt and angry, will have to work through his feelings about Vander's betrayal, this new and improved Zaun, and the happy future that could have been his.
Excerpt: “It’s okay.” Vander’s voice was soft… gentle. The voice that instantly took Silco back to a happier time, when the two of them had been young enough to think they could change the world just by being stubborn enough to want it to be better. Silco sighed, pressing the palms of his hands against the grain of the wood in a futile attempt to ground himself. “Are we s’posed to call you both Silco?” Powder asked as she sat cross-legged on the chair between Silco and Vander and glancing between the two to them before shooting that other one a look across the table. “That’s gonna get confusing real fast.” Her father shrugged his shoulders, but Vander and Silco weren’t listening. “I am sorry I hurt you,” Vander continued, ignoring the others. “Well… apparently it wasn’t you, was it?” “For you it was me.” Silco’s lip twitched as he tried to school his expression. A look of deep concern crossed Vander’s face, and he reached out, laying his hand over Silco’s on the table. “Silk… I…” The reaction was immediate. With a snarl Silco leapt to his feet, tearing his hand out from under Vander’s. Faster than the others could see he drew a blade from his belt and drove it into the table, less than an inch from where Vander’s hand still rested. Vander blanched as he recognized it as the blade he had used during that terrible fight.
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