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1. Tinnitus by aryu

   Fandoms: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, New Captain Scarlet, Captain Scarlet - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   24 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Paul Metcalfe | Captain Scarlet/Adam Svenson | Captain Blue
   • Paul Metcalfe | Captain Scarlet & Adam Svenson | Captain Blue
   • Adam Svenson | Captain Blue
   • Paul Metcalfe | Captain Scarlet
   • Charles Grey | Colonel White
   • Patrick Donaghue | Captain Magenta
   • Seymour Griffiths | Lieutenant Green
   • Assorted Side Characters
   • Edward Wilkie | Doctor Fawn
   • Romantic Soulmates
   • Angst
   • Canon Era
   • Slow Burn
   • Lack of Communication
   • Paul can't stop dying
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Blood and Violence
   • Problems that come with being indestructible
   • Flashbacks
   • Canon typical character death
   • Grown men making stupid decisions because they're in love with each other but they can't say it
   • The romance is a side character here but the deep emotional bond and trauma is the focus
   • but they're also in love

   Summary

   Twelve hours. Tick, tick. Adam squeezes hard, like he can get the blood flowing from his grip and kickstart the beating of Paul’s heart. It doesn’t work, it’s as useless as desperate field CPR, and he breathes out slowly as he lays his forehead against the edge of the mattress.

   If only his hand could pull Paul back from the dead, could wrench him from the chilling grip of the Mysterons and this endless curse. His heart aches with the desire to take some of the pain of this all away from his friend, to squeeze his hand and let them share it. If he could, he’d reach straight into Paul’s soul and hold on as he was being pieced back together so he could give him a piece of himself to share the agony of it.

   How many more times could his body do this?

   Adam struggles with Paul's indestructibility. No matter how many times he dies, he always comes back, but surely that ability has to run out. Doesn't it?

   Language:

   English

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