An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Half Man (TV 2026) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death Relationships: Niall Kennedy/Ruben Pallister Characters: Niall Kennedy, Ruben Pallister Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Dubious Consent, Canonical Character Death, Blood As Lube, Canon-Typical Violence, (except with cocks out this time), Fix-It, (and the fix is just making them worse), forget fuck or die. this is fuck AND die, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Pseudo-Incest Summary:
They both go still for a minute, breathing through it hard as they settle into the weight of what they’re doing. After all this time, what they’re finally doing.
It hangs there between them, huge and ugly, ripped open like a raw nerve, this unacknowledged thing they’ve danced around for decades now laid bare in the way Niall can feel the throb of Ruben’s heartbeat inside of him like this.
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(They fuck in the barn. They die in the barn. One way or another, it was always going to end up like this.)
