and all the ways i'd keep you safe, i keep you safe from me.

hackearney | 28k (complete) | canon-divergent time-loop au | explicit | written by ohmaggies.

“If you call me ma’am one more time,” she mutters, “I’m going to shove your badge up your dickhole.”

“I wouldn’t blame you,” he admits. Still, there’s an undercurrent of hatred in his voice that doesn’t go unnoticed. “Might come to that.”

“Well… I hope it doesn’t,” she replies, grimacing. “Seriously. I’d rather bandage up the empty socket of my left eye again than do that.”

“From the first loop, the eye,” Travis says.

Laura nods to clarify. “Yeah. First loop. So, uh, that’s what we’re calling it, then? Loops?”

“I’m open to suggestions regarding the naming of whatever it is we’ve gotten ourselves into.” His smile falters in the slightest, but he doesn’t shift away. “I’d be more amendable to an explanation, though, if the offer’s on the table.”

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it's only after killing each other half a dozen times that they finally realise the only way to make it to the sunrise of august 23rd is to work together.

or: murder as a love language.