Chapters: 5/20 Fandom: How to Get Away with Murder Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Annalise Keating/Sam Keating, Wes Gibbins & Annalise Keating, Sam Keating & Annalise Keating & Wes Keating, Wes Gibbins/Rebecca Sutter, Lila Stangard/Rebecca Sutter, Sam Keating/Bonnie Winterbottom, Sam Keating/Lila Stangard, Griffin O'Reilly/Lila Stangard, Frank Delfino & Sam Keating, Laurel Castillo & Wes Gibbins & Michaela Pratt & Connor Walsh, Oliver Hampton/Connor Walsh, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Rebecca Sutter & Levi Wescott Characters: Annalise Keating, Wes Gibbins, Sam Keating, Rebecca Sutter, Lila Stangard, Griffin O'Reilly, Bonnie Winterbottom, Frank Delfino, Laurel Castillo, Connor Walsh, Asher Millstone, Michaela Pratt, Minor Characters, Gabriel Maddox (mentioned), Vivian Maddox (mentioned), Levi Wescott Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Adoption, Foster Care, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Murder Mystery, Shakespearean Tragedy, Lies, Emotional Manipulation, gratuitous use of romeo and juliet quotes, Episode: s01e09 Kill Me Kill Me Kill Me, Season 1, contains spoilers for all seasons, Flashbacks, Flashforwards, POV Multiple, Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Drug Dealing
Series: Part 1 of these violent delights have violent ends / and in their triumph die like fire and powder (htgawm au)
Summary:
“There are secrets in every family, of course, snakes slithering under the floorboards. But not like these ones." a.k.a AU where Annalise convinces Sam to go through with the adoption. Nobody’s happy. (Begins in season 1 but contains spoilers for all seasons.) “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die like fire and powder / Which as they kiss consume,” – Shakespeare, ‘Romeo and Juliet’.