Chapters: 1/25
Fandom: Team Fortress 2
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Medic/Scout (Team Fortress 2), BLU Medic/BLU Scout (Team Fortress 2), Miss Pauling/RED Scout (Team Fortress 2), RED Medic & RED Scout (Team Fortress 2), Scout & Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Scout & Spy (Team Fortress 2), Spy & Spy (Team Fortress 2), Engineer & Medic (Team Fortress 2), Demoman & Medic (Team Fortress 2), Administrator & Miss Pauling (Team Fortress 2)
Characters: BLU Scout (Team Fortress 2), BLU Medic (Team Fortress 2), RED Scout (Team Fortress 2), RED Medic (Team Fortress 2), BLU Sniper (Team Fortress 2), BLU Demoman (Team Fortress 2), BLU Spy (Team Fortress 2), RED Spy (Team Fortress 2), RED Engineer (Team Fortress 2), Miss Pauling (Team Fortress 2), Administrator (Team Fortress 2), Gray Mann
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Game Update: Mann vs. Machine (Team Fortress 2), Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Character Death, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Psychological Trauma, Psychological Horror, Heavy Angst, Spy Is Scout's Parent (Team Fortress 2), Scout Doesn't Know Spy Is Scout's Parent (Team Fortress 2), The Second Opinion (Team Fortress 2), Self-Hatred, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Self-Destruction, Slow Romance, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Intimacy, Loss of Trust, Trust Issues, Mild Gore, Non-Explicit Sex, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Dissociation, Psychosis, Team as Family, Team Bonding, Team Dynamics, Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD), Medic has a Dissociative Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
Series: Part 4 of Still Human
Summary:
As days turned to months, and months to years - there was that glimmering, shining memory of a time that the BLU Scout had tried desperately to hold onto - and a dark, neverending descent into a nightmare that the BLU Medic wanted nothing more than to escape. Two sides of the same, twisted coin.
Four years had passed since the events that deepened the divide between RED and BLU. Four years after the incident that clung to both teams - unspoken incidents that nobody dared acknowledge, yet could never forget. There were paths that should have never been crossed; lines that should have never been blurred. Although tense, and uncomfortable, things were safer - things were easier - if they remained the same.
In a world where only the dull, tired shades of red and blue seemed to matter, a new color appeared over the horizon. In a horde of countless many, the new color presented itself as an oppressive - mechanical shade of gray.
