#( sh: got your six | alex + seb )

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this is not incorrect quotes this is actual dialogue fight me.

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this text meme for: @epiitaphs​ verse: double morans status: always accepting

SMS [ shitstain ] ; (unsent) i can’t slep 2nite can u ocme over

SMS [ shitstain ] ; fuck 

SMS [ shitstain ] ; dya think we’re bad peeople

SMS [ shitstain ] ; i mean i know u have no fucking self esteem or opinin of mee btu whatevr

SMS [ shitstain ] ; do u

SMS [ shitstain ] ; ist bad i hve to ask isn’t it

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for @epiitaphs​ “@” for a SCARED text for @diabolicaltendencies

SMS [ BLOCKED NUMBER ] : i need you to hear me out please please dont fucking do this to me SMS [ BLOCKED NUMBER ] : if i dont get the chance to say it, you deserved more people who will look out for you SMS [ BLOCKED NUMBER ] : you’re not what you did for a man who couldn’t love you. i am sorry you never saw that. SMS [ BLOCKED NUMBER ] : pick up the fucking phone seva please SMS [ BLOCKED NUMBER ] : watch the doc. if you ever loved me, if you ever gave a shit about me, look after that guy. SMS [ BLOCKED NUMBER ] : i dont want to die like this

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you’ve died too many times.

for @epiitaphs hitting the nail on the damn head

    “ Sure. And how many times is it appropriate for me to fake my death, in your opinion?”

She watched from the doorway, eyes on the weapons he was storing away. The hazard of working together was moments like this, moments her brother liked to get a little too honest and a little too cutting. Trying to pick at scabs like it would prove he was fine on his own. 

Neither of them were. That was the truth of the matter. Sebastian needed the time and attention of his employer, and Alex needed to know someone cared she was alive. That at the end of the day, she had somewhere to come home to at all. She shifted on her feet, rubbing her eyes. She needed to get moving before she fell asleep on his couch again and carried on another day in the same clothes.

    “ Keeps me safe. Bet you can’t say the same.”

He had a point, not that Alex was going to conceded. There was a reason she went missing for a year and a half. There was a reason she was convinced if the worst came to happen, she would simply vanish form the face of the earth altogether.

    “ Consider this a heads up I’m planning on dying next weekend, have a few things that need handling. And I’ll need your car.”

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What died didn’t stay dead

for @epiitaphs

     “ Mum would say back like a bad cold.”

There it was. The horrible, deep rooted feeling this wasn’t over just yet. Of course her actions would have consequences, but this wasn’t the first time she had sold her soul to the highest bidder. At least this time there was an expiration date, and a blonde haired Bostonian in the next room half asleep to keep her company.  

    “ You need me, I’ll be there. You can still be fucking wrong and I’ll still have your back.”

No one else would understand their paranoia, their justified fear that there was an unspoken presence always watching. She considered the death fo James Moriarty a lucky escape, and it was the same for her brother even if he still couldn’t see that.

    “ -- Any sign of him. I need to know. You get that, right?”

Whether she actually told the government, well, that was yet to be determined. But at the very least she needed a head start. It was the only shot left.

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@epiitaphs​ “it’s nothing. it’s just a bruise.”

    “ I’m not stupid. I know what broken ribs look like. Want me to poke ‘em and prove it?”

It wasn’t a surprise her older brother didn’t know how to ask for help. But that wasn’t the point.

    “ Why didn’t you call me?”

Nevermind how hard she was to get hold of, or that having her number was rare to begin with. He knew how to reach out when it mattered, it was more the lack of self care that scared her. She wanted him to be more careful. It was just impossible to see how to get him to agree.

    “ You’re off duty, don’t argue with me.”

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If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone, I would have asked you

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    “Fuck. You.”

She hid behind her hand for a moment, wondering why she had bothered to be vulnerable in front of him. Her brother could switch like this in seconds, shutting down at any sign of a conversation having meaning. At least she could keep speaking when it came to this. At least she could give his shitty attitude back to him. Her legs dangled off the rooftop, turning her face away from him to focus on the people drifting like ants below them.

    “ You think you’re special because you watched that spotter of yours bleed out, right? You think that gives you a monopoly on grief? Well it fucking doesn’t-”

He was so selfish, so self-centered. Life carried on without him the last few years, and Alex had to figure out what that looked like. For a brief moment that had involved William Morrisey. And then it didn’t.

    “ We both know you wouldn’t bloody ask.”

He’d poke around the sore spot over and over, picking at a scab to try and find her secret without giving away that he cared at all. It was a particular talent really. And she might have felt bad about bringing up his loss if he wasn’t such a shit that way.

    “ You ain’t the only one who lost everything. That’s all.”

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“ i can do this. and even if i can’t, i have to. ”

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    “ The thing is, you don’t.”

She could see it in his shoulders, the tension and weight he carried. There was no way to get through to him when he was like this, stubborn nature ran in their blood. But Sebastian wasn’t alone anymore, in reality he hadn’t been alone for a while but it was past time he figured that out. He didn’t need to be in more than one place at once. It only had to appear that way. 

    “ Listen to me -- this is why we’re a team. I’ve got your back. I’ve got this. Trust me.”

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for @epiitaphs “ you take the lead, i’ll cover you. ”

Alex didn’t argue, simply gave him a nod as she headed forwards with her guard up. With both of them unarmed, (As much as Alex was ever unarmed, she had a trick or two still) it made more sense for her to move in front. She could hear the chatter of a radio around the corner and prepped herself, spotting a fire extinguisher strapped to the wall.

She glanced at her brother, and at the extinguisher so he got the message. It was in her hands in seconds, charging full pelt for thee guard with a swing to his jaw. A sickening crunch was the only confirmation she needed that he wouldn’t be getting back up. She was picking the body over for a firearm, tossing it in Sebastians’ direction before Alex had even bothered to check he had followed her. He’d be there. This was what teamwork could look like when he was willing to play along.

He could have a gun if it made him more comfortable, she could make do with dramatics.

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i became a survivor.

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    “ Survivor isn’t a good look on you.”

She shoved him a little, from where she sat with him in a dark flat on the floor by his side. She could feel a pair of golden eyes on her from across the hall, and it made a shiver shift down her spine. Yet she didn’t move just yet, not when it was obvious Sebastian had been living through hard night after hard night in a row. 

The physical contact was close enough to a hug for them. The shitty short sentences close enough to declarations of love. It was almost like an affectionate relationship, if you read between the lines.

     “ Run a bath. You stink. I’ll figure out food.”

By figuring it out, she wasn’t about to cook. Her brother had suffered enough for one week.

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“ this is about to get really messy, isn’t it ? ”

for @epiitaphs

She wanted to crack a joke back, whining about how he never cleaned up after himself as she smirked out the window when their frequency crackled. Immediately, her head snapped to the open window, knowing he would be hearing the same thing from his rooftop.

    “ Female, left side of the stairwell-”

The sight appeared on hr chest in seconds, the red laser trained against her heart before the hit the deck. She was very much a sitting duck. It wound her up enough that Alex had to rely on her brother for support whilst she put herself in the line of fire but this time it was starting to feel real.

And she was out of chances to communicate. Even if she switched to French or god forbid, Russian, there was no confirmation that their messages would stay secret. 

She could try to sign at him through the office windows on the next floor, but that was giving away her position. Think, Alex, think. The advantage she had was that hopefully, no one knew where Sebastian was or where he was watching from. Bullets pierced the outer wall of the stairwell, cutting through her train of thought before it had really got anywhere. Her options were getting slimmer by the second.

Up to the roof and hope for the best or down to the street where they could have ground support? It was a risk to use the comms again, but there was a slim chance he had been found too.

   “ Shitstain, come in.”

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‘ we’re out of time. ’

for @epiitaphs

Alex looked at her brother, and back at the pitiful waste of a human being they had been putting through the interrogation. According to him, they had moved the target. Not only that, but they had doubled the security around him. Rich oligarchs and their never ending wealth.

    “ -- fuck.”

She charged at the useless informant, the traitor who had tried to play middle man without knowing who he was dealing with. 

Her boot his squarely in his chest, pushing the poor bugger over the ledge and down the eighty feet on the chair he was tied to. The sickening thud was enough, or the silence that followed as she tried to steady her breath and temper her anger again. There had to be a way out of this one, 

    “ No fucking witnesses, that’s what we said.”

No one would walk away knowing their faces. Especially hers. She wasn’t about to go through that again. They had hours at best, till the criminal underworld of London turned on them. maybe worse, seeing as this guy was ex-FSB. They could be looking at a civilian burning too, their faces plastered in every police station and border crossing across Europe. 

It was hardly fair to put this all on her brother, but he had been instant that it was all in hand. It could so easily have been the other way around, if Sebastian ever let her play any role other than second fiddle.

    “ You need to fix this.”

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you shouldn’t be here.

for @epiitaphs

    “ Can you -- just not.”

She didn’t want to hear his excuses, or his teasing. She just wanted to sit, in between the banisters of the back stairs and let the world swallow her whole. Maybe that way she wouldn’t have to pack her bag to head back to school yet again, to be the laughing stock. 

    “ Go pick on someone your own size for a change.”

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@epiitaphs​ 48…out of habit for a touch meme

She approached him from behind, placing a hand on his shoulder. It was easy to see how riled up he was, but this wasn’t going to get them anywhere. Sebastian didn’t like to feel cheated, and Alex could hardly blame him. But these idiots weren’t about to meet the agreed price, and further bloodshed was hardly about to fix it. Better to get a quick exit and hope the next payout covered the loss. She didn’t say a word, just gave a gentle squeeze to remind her brother they should go.

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relationships

( sh: you have his heart | alex + father ) ( sh: you have her eyes | alex + mother ) ( sh: a fucked up excuse for human beings | alex + family )

( sh: sleepless idiots | alex + hamish | old timeline ) ( sh: married idiots | alex + hamish | old timeline ) ( sh: i’m someone you maybe might love | alex + sam ) ( sh: something so magic about you | alex + sam | fantasy ) ( sh: we're just dancin' in the dark | alex + sam | monster hunters ) ( sh: toothpaste kisses | alex + sam | happyverse ) ( sh: this is how we were taught to love | alex + sam | hydra ) ( sh: no body no crime | alex + hamish | heist ) ( sh: got your six  | alex + seb ) ( sh: lean on me | alex + seb | daughter!verse ) ( sh: three of a fucked up kind | alex + seb + sev ) ( sh: oh god there’s more of them | alex + morons ) ( sh: stick fencing world champions | alex + severin ) ( sh: you call me when you’re bored and you’re playing with yourself | alex + elliot ) ( sh: little john to my shitty robin hood | alex + leila ) ( sh: maybe you’re my cup of tea | alex + victor | bodyguard ) ( sh: friends in arms | alex + AGRA ) ( sh: no use getting angry at the way you’re wired  | alex + bash ) ( sh: anything you can do i can do better  | alex + kate ) ( sh: the princess and the precision weapon  | alex + cee | fantasy ) ( sh: you want me dead? join the queue  | alex + bash | fantasy ) ( sh: girls just wanna have funds  | alex + cee | mormor ) ( sh: more issues than vogue  | alex + cee | boarding school ) ( sh: sugar spice and everything nice  | alex + lex + cee ) ( sh: you are my sunshine  | alex + anna | old timeline ) ( sh: there could be happiness for us here  | alex + aidan | court au ) ( sh: five finger discount works wonders  | alex + aidan ) ( sh: the worst kiss i’ve ever had  | alex + ram ) ( sh: the magpie and the fucking machine gun  | alex + moriarty ) ( sh: magpie and spider  | alex + jim ) ( sh: a ghost hunter and a vampire walk into a bar | alex + dora | monster hunters ) ( sh: i’m on the hunt i’m after you | alex + seb + sam + rufus ) ( sh: keep the receipts | alex + rich ) ( sh: pinky promise | alex + august ) ( sh: there are oceans in your eyes | alex + sam | pirates ) ( sh: first mate best mate | alex + august | pirates ) ( SH: MY WAVES MEET YOUR SHORE | ALEX + AIDAN )  ( SH: IT COULD’VE BEEN YOU  | ALEX + AIDAN | WHAT IF ) ( SH: FUCK YOU TOO BABE  | ALEX + GREY ) ( SH: THE WORST KISS I’VE EVER HAD  | ALEX + RAM ) 

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how did you get this scar?

for @epiitaphs

He wasn’t supposed to see those. He had seen her, in the worst state of her life and carried her off to safety but since they had returned to England, he’d been busy throughout her recovery. Maybe he didn’t want to look at her. If their roles were reversed, she would have set fire to half of Europe to find him. The problem was that no one knew she was still alive. Alex Moran had been to thorough at covering her own tracks it was hopeless.

The lattice down her back was mostly kept covered from prying eyes, and how her skin still stretched over her ribs a little strained. She was struggling to put the weight back on, even through exhaustive training. She was weak. Her own reflection showed it off so clearly. Her cheekbones were starting to blend back into her face, her eyes a little less sunken but beneath her shirt still showed the worst of the work. She slipped a t-shirt over her head, focusing on the sink and not his reflection in the bathroom mirror.

    “ There are answers you don’t want Seva.”

She hadn’t talked about Georgia. She hadn’t brought up the isolation, or what living through hell to hear the screams of a dying man could be like. A dying friend. There were moments when she felt her heart beat out of her chest in her sleep, in what was supposed to be the dead of night. There weren’t the words to explain the weight of those things, especially when Sebastian was already babying her at best. 

     “ You shouldn’t ask if you’re not ready to hear it.”