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1. call that a bargain by jadeandquartz

   Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Feb 2023

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Orym/Dorian Storm
   • Orym & Dorian Storm
   • Bells Hells & Dorian Storm
   • Dorian Storm
   • Orym
   • Fy'ra Rai
   • Opal (Critical Role)
   • Dariax Zaveon
   • Morrighan Ferus
   • Fearne Calloway
   • Imogen Temult
   • Ashton Greymoore
   • Fresh Cut Grass (Critical Role)
   • Laudna (Critical Role)
   • Chetney Pock O'Pea
   • Lolth the Spider Queen (Critical Role)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • eldritch horror
   • Body Horror
   • Self Sacrifice
   • Anger
   • Grief
   • Spiders
   • Like a lot of spiders
   • unhealthy thought patterns
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • unreality
   • surreality
   • Canonical Character Death
   • (don't worry. it gets better.)
   • you ever just forget that making deals with betrayer gods will probably come back to bite you?
   • me neither! but apparently dorian storm does
   • shamelessly copying my own notes from several prior fics
   • there will be a happy ending but there WILL be angst before it. because it's fun. for me
   • Bell's Hells meet the Crown Keepers and shit understandably gets chaotic after that
   • takes dorian gently by the shoulders. we are Gonna get you to talk about your feelings.

   Summary

   You can't say it, can you? the Spider Queen laughs. You always run away. From your family, your friends, your feelings, yourself...

   It only takes a couple steps to return to where he first arrived. Dorian kneels beside Orym, reaches across the halfling's broken breastplate towards the object. His fingers wrap around a twisted, barbed half-circlet, forged from liquid metal.

   It feels familiar. So very terrible and familiar.

   "I'm yours, Queen," he whispers furiously. "That's all I need to say, right?"

   ---

   Otohan attacks, and Orym is left dead in her wake.

   A continent away, Dorian Storm decides to take matters into his own hands and do something about it.

   Language:

   English

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