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1. Herding Lambs to Slaughter (The Gospel According to Judas) by PureCacophony

   Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Jun 2026

   Tags

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   • Javier Escuella/John Marston
   • Abigail Roberts Marston/John Marston
   • John Marston
   • Javier Escuella
   • Biblical Symbolism (Abrahamic Religions)
   • Oral Sex
   • Established Relationship
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending
   • Chapter 6: Beaver Hollow (Red Dead Redemption 2)
   • Doomed yaoi :-(

   Summary

   John looked down at him.

   At the way he knelt there in the dim, broken light. At the way the storm framed him: wind and rain and ruin all around, and Javier right in the centre of it, steady as anything.

   Faithful. It should’ve felt like power. It didn’t.

   It felt like standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Like he’d been mistaken for something he wasn’t, something he could never be.

   A god. A saviour. A thing worth kneeling for.

   John exhaled slowly, the sound unsteady.
   “You’re prayin’ at the wrong altar,” he said.
   Javier’s mouth twitched. Not quite a smile. Something sadder than that.

   “Maybe,” he said.

   But he didn’t move. Didn’t get up. Didn’t break. And John let his hand stay where it was. Let himself feel it. The weight of it. The wrongness of it.

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