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1. a lesson in restraint by voidchant

   Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
   • Alina Starkov
   • Amnesia
   • Alternate Universe
   • Memory Loss
   • Caretaking
   • Gentle!Manipulative Darkling
   • Waltz Lessons at Midnight
   • Subtle Consent Checking
   • Polite Kidnapping AU
   • “You’re Safe” (Narrator Voice: She Was Not Safe)
   • Trauma Bonding
   • Enemies to … What Exactly Are We Doing Here
   • Emotional Honesty As A Weaponized Flirtation
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending

   Summary

   Alina wakes in a shuttered room with her shoulder stitched and her memory stripped clean. The only constant is the man at her bedside: Aleksander, dark-coated, deliberate and far too gentle for someone who feels so dangerous.

   He brings tea, steadies her when she stumbles, and answers questions with truths polished thin (or lies dressed up as kindness). Alina doesn’t know who she is, or who he was to her, but her instincts whisper that trust might be the most dangerous choice of all.

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