#listen plroa just made me want all of the stuff we didn't get

[desertfangs]

Goddamn Aliens 2

Armand/Daniel - Mature - 2532 words

This is another missing scene from PLROA, set after the fight we're told Marius and Armand have about how to handle the replimoids (which in and of itself feels like a missing scene): "Armand and Marius had a dreadful quarrel in which Armand demanded that the Replimoids be hunted down and annihilated, and Marius accused Armand of having the savage and ignorant soul of a child."

In this fic, Daniel follows Armand and they talk about aliens, court, and figure some things out.

Short Excerpt:

The door slams, shaking the walls.  

“A child? Really?” Daniel asks, folding his arms over his chest. 

“I said he had the heart of—” 

“Come on, man,” Daniel says. 

Marius sets his jaw in a hard line of stubborn determination, but there’s a flicker in his eyes. Regret? Maybe, maybe not yet. Maybe just frustration about how the whole conversation turned into an angry fight so fast, or at how heated it got. And how he let Armand rattle his composure, roused the fury in him until he fought back. 

Daniel’s gut twists. He knows how that can be with Armand. Armand is clever and cutting, difficult to argue with because of how intense and quick he is. Sometimes Daniel struggles to keep up in the middle of their fights, blurting things out just to get a jab in before Armand lands another blow. 

But still, Daniel watched Armand’s face change when Marius said it, going from animated and angry to a solid, impassive mask. That mask, that blankness, is when you know you’ve really hit a nerve with Armand. 

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