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Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Dark Souls (Video Games), Dark Souls III, Bloodborne (Video Game), Dark Souls I Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Nameless King/Dragon Slayer Ornstein, Dragon Slayer Ornstein/Executioner Smough, The Nameless King/Dragon Slayer Ornstein/Executioner Smough Characters: Executioner Smough, Dragon Slayer Ornstein, Lord Gwyn's Firstborn | The Nameless King Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Post-Prison, Ornstein is sort of a bastard, Tags May Change, Ambiguous Relationships, Smough will not use his words and you cannot make him, Angst adjacent, It Gets Better, eventually, Enemies to Friends, Past Relationship(s), Slow Burn Series: Part 2 of After Dark Summary:
Smough was out of jail, starting the rest of his life, and... very nearly out of options. But that had been the state of things for a long time. ‘Free’ was a funny thing to call a man in his position. Ornstein didn't seem to find the humour in it, but then, Ornstein never did.