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1. "Hey there, Ric. It's me, ya boy." by PayloadOfGeckos

   Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Ortega/Sidestep (Fallen Hero)
   • Sidestep/Steel (Fallen Hero)
   • Ortega/Sidestep/Steel (Fallen Hero)
   • Ortega (Fallen Hero)
   • Sidestep (Fallen Hero)
   • Lady Argent (Fallen Hero)
   • Steel (Fallen Hero)
   • Ortega is Named Ricardo (Fallen Hero)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • heavy on the hurt
   • Angst
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • AU
   • Canon Divergent AU
   • Male Sidestep (Fallen Hero)
   • Trans Sidestep (Fallen Hero)
   • Suicidal Ideation
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Suicide Attempt
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • Injury
   • Recovery
   • sidestep Raz Becker
   • what if sidestep called Ortega after their second escape
   • that's it- that's the premise
   • ill try to add tags as i go
   • just know it's gunna be mean
   • but mostly very aligned with the game's level of mean
   • Depersonalization
   • Dissociation
   • uhhhhhhhhh yeah it's a bad time ok
   • but with a more optimistic end in the works i swear
   • yes i know the title is a meme but don't let that fool you into thinking this is funny
   • i am just a deeply unserious person
   • and sometimes i get attached to my very stupid working titles
   • Addiction
   • Hallucinations

   Summary

    

   "Raz called me." Too simple, too honest, and much, much too sure for someone who'd been hallucinating his dead friend regularly since watching him fall from a window. Not fall. Jump. He had watched Raz jump. He didn't stop it. No amount of therapy in the world would convince him that he couldn't have stopped it, maybe if he'd just—

   "You're drunk."

   It was an accusation, not even a question, and a part of Ricardo wished she was right.

    

   Nearly four years after the Heartbreak Incident, Ricardo Ortega gets a phone call from the dead.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,970

   Chapters:

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   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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