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I don’t know if anyone wanted an overwritten exploration of a mute Stolas recovering in a psychiatric hospital, but if you did, here’s mine.
Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Blitzo/Stolas Goetia, Stolas Goetia & Vassago, Stolas Goetia/Vassago Characters: Stolas Goetia, Blitzo (Helluva Boss), Vassago (Helluva Boss), Medical staff OCs Summary:
Move on? Impossible. Stolas would have laughed if he still remembered how to. Instead, he just rested his forehead on top of his knees and closed his weary eyes, wondering how he was meant to move on when someone had come along and blacked out the sun when they’d beheaded his beating heart.
Stolas was only seconds too late to save Blitzo at the end of Mastermind. Now, catatonic with grief and institutionalized against his will, he has no desire to be saved, either. But silence is a language of its own, at least to those who choose to learn it, and it seems that the mysterious Goetia who keeps haunting him with tears and music and apologies might just be fluent.
If only Stolas can be convinced to listen.
