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1. In leaves no step had trodden black by subwayInterference

   Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   19 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Hydra & facility staff
   • Hydra (Starlight Express)
   • Original Human Character(s)
   • Original Train Characters
   • Pre-Canon
   • sequel to a previous fic
   • Weird Train Biology
   • trains eat metal
   • Sickfic
   • Unrelated to the eating metal he's actually supposed to do that
   • Invasive Medical Procedures
   • Body Horror Adjacent
   • Implied/Referenced Sex
   • Breakup aftermath
   • Forced hair cutting (referenced)
   • Hydra's basically grounded
   • Medical Inaccuracies
   • Uncharted territory
   • emetaphobia warning
   • Additional Warnings in Author's Note
   • mature for themes not sexual content
   • he/him pronouns for Hydra
   • but not in a "these are the canon pronouns" way in a "author started writing this well before adopting a different headcanon" way

   Summary

   After the disaster with Electra, Hydra's parent company is slowly cleaning up the mess he's made. Unfortunately for them, their best laid plans quickly begin to go awry.

   (follows on from previous fic in series)

   Series

   • Part 3 of Treatise on inflammable air

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,588

   Chapters:

   7/?

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