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1. Just Like Old Times by gradientdescent

   Fandoms: Deadlock (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   21 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Drifter/Shiv (Deadlock)
   • Drifter (Deadlock)
   • Shiv (Deadlock)
   • Secret Santa Exchange gift
   • Gun Violence
   • Blood and Violence
   • Toxic Ex-Something

   Summary

   Shiv keeps such tight control over himself now. He has to: as the leader of the Baxter Society, there’s no room for mistakes. If there’s even a hint that he lets the beast take over, he’ll lose his authority instantly—if not also his life. It was a long, hard slog to earn his place. And he’s not going to let anything take it from him.

   Drifter’s not sophisticated. He isn’t one to design elaborate psychological torments. But Shiv just makes it so easy. And he misses his playmate. How long, he wonders, can he keep dangling meat in front of Shiv before the man finally takes a bite?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,470

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Comments:

   6

   Kudos:

   20

   Bookmarks:

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