Fics like Tarnished Souls

He stands beside an easel on the corner street, apart from the crowd in his own bubble of space with his paints on a little table beside him, a stack of easels leaning against it and a sign advertising portrait painting ten euros a canvas on his other side, and my heart seizes in my chest at the sight of him, my breathing stilling. It is impossible, a miracle, but the artist is as familiar to me as the dearest of friends, with the mousey hair and calm, genial smile that seems always to hide some secret understanding behind it, with the quiet, reserved stoop to his shoulders and the sparkle to his hazel eyes, and there is no denying it, despite the darkest whispers in my mind that reassure me that this cannot be happening- Basil Hallward stands with paint splatters on his apron, and on his fingers, a hundred odd years after his death. In Paris, Dorian runs into a friend he thought he would never see again.

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