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Puzzle Pieces

Summary:

The Naturals have a new member, but his abilities aren't so clear cut. A killer who needs their victims to fit the mold exactly. The member of the Naturals who never seemed to quite fit in.

From these pieces, you'd think you would know how it would play out. The new member who seems to take a little bit from everyone, the killer doomed to repeat the past until it consumes them, the outcast finding their place at long last.

Not quite.

Notes:

Full disclaimer: I don't have the greatest track record for finishing things I start unless they stay tiny. If you want to take this concept, and run with it to create a fic of your own, please let me know so I can read it when it's out!

I have pages of notes for this thing, and AuDHD hyperfixation go brr, so I've got no idea how much of this I can actually get out before the fire runs out.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: YOU

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YOU

You’ve seen what happens when it isn’t done right.

She screamed, writhed, knocked the candles over, broke the perfect circle.

They trusted you to fix what was broken. Now nobody trusts you anymore.

It can’t happen again.

You won’t let it happen again.

You aren’t ready yet, but you’re getting there. Getting the pieces together.

Getting everything right.

You see them. Nobody else sees them. They suffer, in pain, broken, ignored, forgotten.

That’s why this matters. They don’t deserve to be forgotten. You’ve never forgotten. They won’t let you.

Because once you heal them, once you do the rites, once you save them.

The demons will finally leave you alone.

Not yet though.

They remind you of what you did.

But nobody seems to understand that in work like yours…

You only have to win once.

Notes:

I did warn you it had to stay tiny.

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