Lab_Rat_By_Night



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    Dealing with the loss of his father was hard enough, but when Katsuki's car breaks down in middle-of-nowhere Texas on the way to the memorial service, he's pretty sure he's stepped straight into country music hell.

    What he finds there, wrapped up in drawls and twang, might be the healing he didn't know he needed.

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    Eli lunged. He caught the thing around the waist, wrenching it off of Victor and slamming it into the wall. It made a sound, a strangled childish giggle. The sheriff, to his credit, staggered to his feet and the moment Eli had rolled away from it, unloaded three shots, two into its chest and one into her forehead.

    There was no scream, just a choked cough, before it laid limply against the wooden floor.
    “Man, what the fuck?” Rusher had lost all his professional pretense. “That’s a fucked up little girl, man.”

    Victor hadn’t even caught up to what had happened before the next shot rang out. The entity jerked, convulsed, but its body settled motionless. Not a twitch. Not a sound. Just a splay of black blood fanning out beneath its head, already sinking into the hardwood like ink.

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    A voice called out through the door, loud and harsh and angry: “Eliot Cardale, open this door right now or I will use the key you gave me and then gut you with it.”

    Angie.

    Memories came flooding back to Victor: him telling Eli to break up with her if he wanted to get in Victor’s pants, Eli doing so immediately, unquestioningly. He hadn’t considered what that might do to Angie, hadn’t even been thinking about her except in that she’d had a claim to Eli that Victor wanted for himself. In his total focus on Eli, his need to take and keep and own the entire span of Eli’s attention, he hadn’t spared so much as a thought to how Angie might feel on waking up to such a text.

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    “You’re really quite rude, aren’t you?” He wanted it to sound teasing, charming; it came out a lot colder than that.

    Victor tipped his glass, and finished it. With a graceful gesture, he asked the bartender for another one. “So I’ve heard,” he said. “Begs the question as to why you’re still talking to me.”

    Oh believe me, I will soon make you stop talking.

    “Maybe I just think you’re pretty,” Eli replied. It was, in part, an attempt at regaining control of the situation, of making his cover believable — lust made people allow all kinds of bad manners, or so Eli had heard — but he was also curious to see how Victor would react.

    The man's lips stretched in a smile that could only be described as dangerous. “Now that, I can believe,” he said, the flirtation like the edge of a knife. “But I don’t think you’re the type to care much for pretty things.”

    AU: Victor Vale is in the business of pain relief. Eli Ever is in the business of killing EOs. Tonight, specifically, he's quite intent on killing Victor.

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    30 Jun 2025