chapter five is out!!! it's finished!!! yay!!
Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hamlet/Horatio (Hamlet) Characters: Hamlet (Hamlet), Horatio (Hamlet), Fortinbras (Hamlet) Additional Tags: Hamlet Lives (Hamlet), Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, because they are still deeply miserable, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Angst, Grief/Mourning, Past Character Death, nobody Actually dies in the fic i promise, Temporary Character Death, Survivor Guilt, Hamlet Is Its Own Warning, Codependency, Bittersweet, hamlet lives but it's still a tragedy, beta read we live like hamlet in this fic, Hurt/Comfort, but mostly hurt i fear, Title from a Car Seat Headrest Song, Song: Reuse The Cels (Car Seat Headrest), Trauma, Depression, POV Horatio (Hamlet), Suicidal Thoughts, Canon-Typical suicidal ideation, Getting Together, Panic Attacks, Complete Summary:
He can feel Hamlet’s bones, his ribcage, his—
Holy shit.
Horatio snaps upright, then presses his palm back to Hamlet’s chest. Two fingers to the side of his neck, then the base of each wrist. Horatio checks once twice thrice, his eyes widening. Because there, faint but certain through Hamlet’s skin, is a pulse.
Hamlet is alive.
(Hamlet lives, the tragedy continues, and Horatio picks up the pieces.)