Fics like To A Fault

It isn’t deliberate. Not that first night, at least. He just can’t sleep sometimes. Drifting off is easy, but then John wakes up screaming, clutching at a rope that hasn’t been wrapped around his throat in years— clawing at his neck, gasping like he’s suffocating. He still remembers what dying felt like; the trembling, fragile intimacy of it. Still remembers the loud crack of Arthur’s gun. Arthur’s calloused hands on his face as he coaxed John up out of the mud, eyes so bright they hurt to look at, shhh, you’re all right now, boy. I gotchu. Arthur wasn’t lying. He had him then, and he has him now, and every single day in between. Dutch looks out for them all, but in a fight it’s always Arthur standing at John’s back. Arthur’s bullets taking down the men in John’s way. Arthur’s hand on his shoulder when he’s shaking with adrenaline, easy, now, easy. It is never easy, but it’s easier, with him there.

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