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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    Vegas dies by the pool the night of the coup.

    Then Pete gets another chance. (And another one. And another one. And—)

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  2. Public Bookmark 65

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    Vegas was like an animal when he was hurting; he went quiet and cagey and rude, but clingy too. Pete and Vegas both had the same impulses: to hide away from the world and lick at each other’s wounds, and to give each other more. It wasn’t practical. But part of Pete did wish they could stay here forever, Vegas hurting and snarling but safe, with Pete. It was probably selfish. Pete would feel guilty if he could, but he’d never seen the point in feeling guilty for wanting what you wanted. Everyone was greedy for something they shouldn’t have. That was just life. And if you were really lucky, you could have it anyway. Pete had never been that lucky, but Vegas had a strange way of making his own twisted kind of luck.

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    Vegas and Pete go on the run.

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    11 May 2025

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    Pete must be getting complacent, because it takes him a few weeks to find the drugs.

    He usually goes straight to the first aid kit in their room, not the bathroom cabinet. Maybe Vegas counted on that. Or maybe it’s just what’s normal, for Theerapanyakuls. Probably they all keep the incapacitating sedatives in the bathroom drawer next to the gauze and the antiseptic and the leftover painkillers from the hospital.

    Maybe Pete’s not the best judge of normal. A normal person might ask what exactly are you going to tell Macau if he goes looking for an aspirin?

    Pete? He swallows hard, and reminds himself how fucked up Porsche had been when they found him, and tries not to remember how giggly and handsy he’d been later on. Getting out of the car, clinging around Kinn’s neck, hands everywhere while Pete averted his eyes politely. It had been a completely fucked thing to do. Porsche didn’t want it, not really.

    Porsche probably doesn’t want a lot of the things that Pete’s brain and gut and dick are extremely interested in.

     

    or: In which there is weird domesticity, and Vegas is surprisingly cheerful about getting a taste of his own medicine

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    11 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    After the safehouse, Pete goes back to underwater restraints training. It hits differently.

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    11 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 84

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    It wasn’t like the belt had been the worst of it, not by far. The electricity was definitely Pete’s least favorite part, if he was going to start ranking all the times Vegas had tortured him. And the simple endless burn in his shoulders from being chained up with barely enough slack to stand was pretty bad too. Pain was pain. Pete had taken it before and he would take it again, probably, considering their line of work. He wondered if part of why Vegas regretted these scars in particular so bitterly was because he hadn’t even enjoyed giving them. He definitely wasn’t going to say that.

    He was just tired of Vegas touching him with regret. He wanted Vegas’s hands on him always, in every way, but not like that.

    “Okay,” Pete said. “Then let’s change them, if it bothers you so much.”

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