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1. A helping hand by LakeOnline

   Fandoms: The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes (Video Game)  

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

   14 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Eric King/Salim Othman
   • Nick Kay/Rachel King
   • Nick Kay & Eric King & Rachel King & Jason Kolchek & Salim Othman
   • Eric King & Salim Othman
   • Past Eric King/Rachel King
   • Eric King
   • Salim Othman
   • Nick Kay
   • Rachel King
   • Jason Kolchek
   • Zain Othman
   • Clarice Stokes
   • Dar Basri
   • Nathan Merwin
   • Joey Gomez
   • slowburn
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Self Harm
   • Attempted Suicide
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Amputee Eric King
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Trauma
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Eating Disorders
   • Eric has an eating disorder
   • Nightmares
   • Not Beta Read
   • I'll add more tags when I remember more of what happens as I post each chapter lmao
   • No Beta We Die Like Dar Basri
   • canon character death
   • Its Clarice Joey Merwin and Dar
   • POV Eric King
   • Occasional POV Salim Othman
   • Protective Salim Othman
   • Eric King needs a hug
   • Eric King gets a hug
   • Dissociation
   • Depression
   • Eric needs therapy
   • He doesnt get therapy
   • IM VERY BAD AT TAGGING
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • only a little bit
   • Recovery
   • poor eric
   • Its okay Salim is trying his best to keep him alive
   • Angst
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Injury Recovery
   • Jason is kind of just there
   • I was going to kill him off but then I felt bad so I kept him alive
   • I keep forgetting that Zain exists so he's kinda just appearing then disappearing
   • Sickfic
   • only occasionally
   • actually that depends on what you class as being sick
   • cause if we're being literal its only a little bit
   • but if we're being vague its basically the entire fic
   • throwing up
   • Emetophobia
   • THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME TO ADD THAT
   • I THOUGHT I HAD
   • I had not

   Summary

   After Rachel leaves him, Eric breaks inside. He'd been struggling for a while, years if he was being honest, but he wasn't. When they're put in quarantine and he's forced to see Nick and Rachel each day, he can't handle it anymore.

   Luckily, or unluckily in Erics mind, Salim is there to help him.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   299,063

   Chapters:

   47/?

   Comments:

   9

   Kudos:

   18

   Bookmarks:

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