Hey, guess what I finally updated after 3 YEARS of being hopelessly stuck! It's my overly ambitious “retrieve Hawke from the Fade” fic! Here, have like 5k of Anders and Justice having a no good very bad day.
The farther into the Nightmare realm they trek, the more eerie it becomes. They haven’t travelled more than five minutes when a booming voice echoes around them. “Justice,” it sneers, “or should I say Vengeance? After all, what you did to the Kirkwall chantry did nothing to achieve justice for mages, did it? It was merely a petty act of revenge.”
Justice growls, “I am not a demon. Unlike you.”
“Is that so?” the voice rumbles back. “Did you not get here by blood magic? That seems like something a demon would do to me.”
“We…” Justice searches for words, desperate to defend himself, but he can’t find any. Fear clenches his chest. How can he know for sure? Perhaps he was a demon all along. Perhaps he was corrupted when he left the Fade. Or when he fused with Anders. Or when he blew up the Chantry. Or when he agreed to let Merrill send him here using blood magic. Perhaps…
Suddenly, he feels Anders push forward and take control of their voice.
“You shut up!” Anders shouts, not sure where to direct his voice so he just yells as loud as he can into the Fade. “Justice is not a demon! I would know better than anyone, since I’ve been sharing a body with him for the past decade! And you know it, too! You’re just saying shit to get a rise out of him.”
The voice laughs around them. “It worked, did it not? I wonder what other fun ways I can get a rise out of you?” the voice muses, then goes quiet.
“Well, that was terrible,” Anders mutters.
