From The Inside We Will Fall, Act 2 of the Deserters AU, is now posted in full!
Damianus and Marius--Dixie Greene and Alex Rojas, to those not in the Legion--have been charged by Caesar himself to do his bidding in the Mojave desert, undermining the NCR and swaying as many factions as they can to support his war on the West. It should be second nature to Dixie, wholly devoted to the Legion's cause, and iron-willed enough to see his duty to the end. He's sacrificed too much to let himself fail now, even as his faith in the Son of Mars is tested at every turn.
But Marius, already under suspicion of treason, has his reservations and isn't shy about sharing them. But it's more than idealism driving him...The longer he spends with Dixie, the less he can imagine being apart from him--and the more he suspects Dixie feels the same, despite the Legion's laws.
And the deeper they go into Caesar's machinations, the less time they have to reckon with anything that might lie between them, never mind the war looming over their heads...
75k, warnings for canon-typical violence and mild ‘we live in a society’-type fretting about the boys’ relationship...But mostly a lot of pining, the two of them being idiots, and How Much The Legion Sucks