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The Throat, The Throat, The Throat by lame_perrier
Fandoms: The Outer Worlds 2 (Video Game)
05 Feb 2026
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Summary
Virgil was wrong. He had excellent restraint.
Commander Jean-Pardieu Beauchamp of the Earth Directorate remained unharmed, despite everything.
(He wanted to break every single one of those maledict fingers.)
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She tried to scoff. It turned into a sigh. “Not everything is worth gambling on, Pardy. This wouldn’t be a problem if you’d just stop.”
The winning smile turned coy. “See, that right there? That’s the difference between us,” he said, lifting his index finger and gesturing conspiratorially with it. “With A.C. folks, Order folks, Protectorate folks, even Aza’s little cult: you all think the whole Universe can be broken down into tidy little production quotas, a list of product values- sums and totals and summary executions. A Universal Equation, a Paradigm, a Grand Architect waiting on the other side of a rift... or a long black number on a bottom line.” He leaned towards her conspiratorially. “Everything in this life is a gamble, Inez. All that really matters is how you’re betting.”