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• to kill, to keep by ghostwrittenoath (chandrxla)

  Fandoms: Deadly Class (TV), Deadly Class (Comics)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  22 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Marcus Lopez Arguello/You
  • Marcus Lopez Arguello/Original Female Character(s)
  • Marcus Lopez Arguello
  • Reader
  • Original Characters
  • Maria Esperanza Salazar
  • Brandy Lynn
  • Viktor (Deadly Class)
  • Master Lin
  • Heavy Angst
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Drug Use
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Secret Relationship
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • Smut
  • Rough Sex
  • extreme emotional constipation
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Minor Character Death
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
  • Aged-Up Character(s)
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Unhealthy Relationships
  • Italian Mafia
  • There Was Only One Bed
  • but make it Worse
  • trauma bonding is love according to marcus
  • Semi-Public Sex
  • library sex if ur interested in that
  • toxic ass lying/omission of the truth
  • Porn with Feelings
  • But also
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Codependency
  • sad cunnilingus
  • king's dominion is a college you and marcus are 18
  • sex as one of the aforementioned unhealthy coping mechanisms
  • the "tell me to stop" trope oh yeahhhh
  • a singular flicker of fluff but still with an undercurrent of angst
  • Wall Sex
  • Oral Sex
  • Mildly Dubious Consent
  • Drunk Sex
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • Self-Hatred
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • but very brief - Freeform
  • Drug Abuse
  • Major Character Injury
  • Medical Trauma
  • Catholic Guilt

  Summary

  You don’t build something good out of two broken people.
  You build a bomb. You wait for it to go off.
  Marcus looks down at you, tucked against his side, and something inside him twists so sharp he almost flinches.
  Stay, he thinks savagely, pressing another kiss to your temple.
  Even if you don’t mean it.
  Even if it kills us both.

  You carry a name soaked in blood. He carries a hunger he can’t name. What starts as a mistake becomes a tether neither of you know how to cut. Trust is dangerous. Desire is worse. And King’s Dominion has never tolerated loose ends.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  61,796

  Chapters:

  8/10

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  24

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