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   Tied Up By The Past You Hold by pipdepop

   Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   10 Nov 2019

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Arthur Morgan & Dutch van der Linde
   • Hosea Matthews & Arthur Morgan
   • Bessie Matthews/Hosea Matthews
   • Dutch van der Linde
   • Arthur Morgan
   • Hosea Matthews
   • Bessie Matthews
   • Lyle Morgan (mentioned)
   • OCs as minor characters
   • pre-game
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Sickfic
   • Implied Past Child Abuse
   • Found Family
   • just another origin story
   • making up for the lack of hugs in-game one fic at a time
   • touch starvation
   • Canon-Typical Violence

   Summary

   In a spur of the moment decision, Dutch and Hosea rescue a young boy from a beating in some backwater town.

   Trouble is, now they’re not entirely sure what to do with him, and this whole ‘parenting’ thing is a lot more difficult than Dutch thought it would be.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,227

   Chapters:

   2/2

   Comments:

   90

   Kudos:

   1,151

   Bookmarks:

   250

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