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1. What It Takes by Dextrousfox

   Fandoms: Mafia (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   10 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Rape/Non-Con
   • Vito Scaletta/Henry Tomasino
   • Joe Barbaro & Vito Scaletta
   • Vito Scaletta
   • Henry Tomasino
   • Joe Barbaro
   • Francesca Scaletta
   • Maria Scaletta
   • Original Characters
   • Fix-It
   • Non-Canon Relationship
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Slow Build
   • Slow Burn
   • Angst
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Period-Typical Racism
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Sexism
   • Explicit Language
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Threats of Rape/Non-Con
   • Slurs
   • Eventual Smut
   • Fluff
   • Bottom Vito Scaletta
   • Top Henry Tomasino
   • Rape/Non-con Elements (not between main pairing)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Blood and Injury
   • Vito deserves a happy ending
   • Henry too
   • depictions of war
   • WW2
   • PTSD
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Nightmares
   • Mutual Pining
   • more tags to be added as this goes on
   • Idiots in Love
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Gay Panic
   • graphic depictions of injuries
   • Gun Violence
   • Sexual Assault
   • Rape
   • Daddy Issues
   • Gaslighting
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • sometimes
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Prostitution
   • Wet Dream

   Summary

   Vito Scaletta came to America as the child of Sicilian immigrants in the 1930s. Facing poverty and discrimination he and his best friend Joe turn to crime in the hopes of a better life. Very little goes according to plan.
   A retelling of Vito’s story in Mafia 2, gradually abbreviating from canon to sort of fix the clusterf*** of an ending that broke my heart. As the game it gets pretty dark at times, though. So be warned, guys.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   110,925

   Chapters:

   12/?

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