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    Obi-Wan’s first memory was not his own. Rather, it was a vision steeped in darkness and flashes of red and choking heat and you were my brother and the harsh crash of lightsabers striking one another. He woke up sobbing in the arms of the crèchemaster, Master Kitaddik, who was hushing him and gently stroking the top of his head with her furry hands. Obi-Wan hid his face in the soft folds of her tunic and, still crying, fell back asleep.

    The first time Obi-Wan collapsed due to a vision was not long after that.

    [Or: in all the various iterations of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s life, the Force spoke to him. But in this one, it never stopped.]

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    What if the prophecy kept at the Hall of Prophecies was manipulated to suit the needs of an old manipulator?

    What if the recent Dark Lord forgot his original goals in his quest to attain immortality and cheat Death?

    What if the Boy-Who-Lived accepted his death even before he knew he was the Boy-Who-Lived?

    And what if the Fates intervened to start a new game of 'chess'?

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    “Dumbledore seriously needs to check his morals! He wants a child to kill a grown-up wizard! Not to mention one of the most powerful dark wizards in Britain!”

    “The prophecy does say you’d be his equal," Atropos pointed out.

    “Only raw magical power won’t be able to do anything," Harry pointed out. “I can’t just fire off spells at him and hope for the best. Besides, he must have had at least three decades worth of experience over me.”

    “Five decades actually," Lord Death supplied.

    Harry slumped slightly. “You guys and Dumbledore both are insane!”, he proclaimed.

    “We didn’t say you will have to kill him really," Atropos pointed out.

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    It’s not like anything changed much.

    Peter is usually great brushing off all the shit everyone gives him for being himself. It usually doesn’t matter what they think; what anyone thinks really.

    So why is it getting so hard for him to do that recently?

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    chi·me·ra, noun. Definition: a single animal or plant with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes
    chi·me·ra, noun. Definition: a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.
    chi·me·ra, noun. Definition: a monstrous creature with parts from multiple animals.

    chi·me·ra
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    Definition: a boy who's done too much bad to be considered good and too much good to be considered bad.

    alternately, Theo's back from hell and there's a lot of shit to sort out. Liam helps with that, sometimes.

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    They wrestle unceremoniously for a long time, and just like they always fight, there are no rules. Blood trickles down their faces down to their chins, and after fighting for this long, there really isn’t a distinction of whose blood is whose. Neither of them would be willing to admit this to the other, but they both really needed this. Their bickering is no substitute for their drawn fists and clawed hands. Liam wasn’t sure why, but there was something cathartic about his wrestling with Theo. With everyone else he’d previously fought, none of them rivalled him in strength and even if they could, they never fought back. But not Theo.

    Between them, is an unspoken deal— an understanding more like—where they see each others frustrations and are able to let it all out in a way that they can’t really do with anyone else. No questions after their relentless fighting, and best of all, they don’t ever address it. They just know it.

    Or, the development of Theo and Liam's relationship from punching it out instead of talking, to idiots, to lovers (eventually)

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