Fics like the world's at your feet

A year after the fall of Lumon, Mark Scout and Helena Eagan, now a couple, decide to reintegrate. Part 1, Helly POV: When she wakes up with the other Mark, he always seems startled, like he doesn’t quite know what to do with her. He doesn’t say hello, just starts telling her where she is, what she’s doing. He’s distant, but he’s also…sweet. He often asks her how she’s feeling, asks her if she’s hot or cold or hungry or thirsty. He always looks at her out of the corner of his eye. But he’s always looking, always watching, like if he looks away, she’ll be gone. -- Part 2, Helena POV: He doesn’t want her; he wants Helly. And she doesn’t want him; she wants Mark S., the one who looked at her like he loved her. But only, she knows, because he loved Helly. Still, she remembers how it felt, being her, being someone who hadn’t been born into her family’s legacy, who could laugh at their stupid origin stories and make uncouth jokes and be loved by people who didn’t fear her. She knows that both Marks belong to Helly, and she starts to think that maybe she does, too.

Fics like the world's at your feet

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