#this is really just. joe shows up at booker's exile apartment like hi hello we're friends now and booker's just like. what

[youssefguedira]

dear followers today i offer you more iron maiden joe au featuring what i like to call sibling bonding through sports and trauma. tomorrow? who knows

Rating: General

Summary:

Booker has spent two hundred years only knowing Yusuf through the spaces he left behind: the house in Malta; the way their stories always seemed to be divided into before and after, and the way Andy would always get that distant look in her eyes when they talked about before; Quynh’s perpetual habit of crouching by the water’s edge, whispering in a language Booker couldn't understand; Nicky and his quiet, constant grief; Booker’s own dreams of Yusuf, terrified and furious and desperate and always, always screaming. And now Joe sits forward on the couch, fixated on the screen as PSG get dangerously close to scoring.

None of this makes any sense, so Booker stops trying to understand it and watches the game with him.

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Two years after Joe gets out of the coffin, Booker meets him for the first time.