vas' jewish medic fics
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The Heavy and the Medic are not exceedingly close with one another yet. The Heavy hardly knows anything about him at all, but it isn’t in his nature to pry. They maintain their own form of impersonal order, and life goes on about as simply as it can in war.
That is, of course, all about to change.
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- Part 1 of vas' jewish medic fics
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Birthdays have not mattered to Herbert Ludwig in over twenty years, not since he lost track of his own age.
Maybe, one day, this will change.
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- Part 2 of vas' jewish medic fics
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“And even so,’ the hiss said, like there was a smile in its tone, ‘you have limited yourself. You remember how we molded the flesh between our fingertips, how it moved like silk, so easily — but now you would hold us back for the sake of emotion. If we are not a woman anymore, then we shall not act like it. If we are Herbert, then we shall act like it.’
‘We shall not,’ it told him, ‘allow ourselves to be attached.”
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Herbert Ludwig molds himself to best discard his weaknesses.
This, of course, has consequences.Series
- Part 3 of vas' jewish medic fics
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You try to keep your hands steady, about as best as you can. You’ve never quite had a surgeon’s hands, not like Vati does, but that isn’t about to stop you.
“It’s okay,” you tell the birds. “It’s okay. I’m going to fix you, see?”
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The boy who will become the Medic finds two dying birds in an alleyway.
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- Part 4 of vas' jewish medic fics
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“You are alright?”
Herbert says nothing for a moment, only staring up at the night sky. The only sounds are the whistling of the autumn wind and the creeeaaaks of the patio swing as it inches its way back and forth, back and forth.
“Maybe,” is all he says, finally. “I don’t know.”
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Herbert and Mikhail go over for dinner with Mikhail’s family, despite Herbert’s wariness. There are many things to be said.
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- Part 5 of vas' jewish medic fics
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“DO YOU EVER THINK THAT YOU MIGHT BE GOING MAD?”
“Oh, all the time. I don’t think it’s anything to worry about.”
Memory is a fickle thing.
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- Part 6 of vas' jewish medic fics
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Sniper and Medic have an awkward conversation about mothers and death. Medic does most of the talking.
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- Part 7 of vas' jewish medic fics
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And his heart beats impossibly in Herbert’s grasp, as if responding just to his touch. There’s blood on Herbert’s lips, on his palms, viscera puckering in the folds of his fingerprints, and, oh, it’s all Mikhail’s, all of it, and it smears about Herbert’s mouth in clumps like cheap lipstick.
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Herbert and Mikhail consummate their (unlawful) marriage in a very…unique way. It actually proves to be rather therapeutic.
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- Part 8 of vas' jewish medic fics
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“We’ll get you something better when we get home,” Herbert coos, a lilt in his voice. “Clean underwear, a hot bath, und a good meal— all of it, matok, I promise. For you.”
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The year is 1974. Herbert and Mikhail’s lives at RED are finally over, and they’re able to achieve something they’d not previously thought possible: quiet, earnest domesticity, if only for a time.
That is, of course, until one day, Mikhail dies suddenly and jarringly, and everything about their life together is ground to a halt. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s permanent.But Herbert isn’t quite willing to accept that.
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- Part 9 of vas' jewish medic fics
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Heavy, Medic, and their daughter (yes, the baboon) celebrate Chanukah together.
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- Part 10 of vas' jewish medic fics
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December, 1974. An irredeemable man finally brings himself to go back to synagogue for one night. The light of his life is there waiting for him.
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- Part 11 of vas' jewish medic fics
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