Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Ten: Heart

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, OC Team

Main Ships:

Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy, Scout/OC, Demo/OC, past Cheavy/Medic

Summary:

He wants to scream, to cry out, to break the stony-faced facade he’s clung to for so long. Charred flesh and melted skin pulls away from the wound, blackened and burning, the stench filling his nose and turning his stomach. It sickens him.

He hears a voice from above, from lips he cannot see.

Remember what we've taught you.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Eight: Fear

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, OC Team

Main Ships:

Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy, Scout/OC, Demo/OC, past Cheavy/Medic

Summary:

He awoke, aching and sickened, on the ash-grey carpet of the common room floor.

His heart was pounding with terror.

Any effort to get up was met with a threat from the guards, aiming rifles at his head, the laser sights glinting on his glasses. They never said a fucking word. It incensed him.

To die during ceasefire meant a three-day wait.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Seven: Madness

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, OC Team

Main Ships: 

Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy, Scout/OC, Demo/OC, past Cheavy/Medic

Summary:

He woke up to the smell of damp, and the feeling that something was terribly, terribly wrong.

Slipping from the bed, he found the fabric scratched and prickled at his skin, and felt the floor like ice beneath his feet. He felt the cold night air waft through an open window.

He felt a shiver down his spine.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Six: Forward

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, OC Team

Main Ships: Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy, Scout/OC

Summary:

Two hours had come and gone as he’d stared upwards, up to a ceiling still too unfamiliar, chasing a sleep that continued to evade him. He could feel the dark circles forming around his eyes, like so many nights that came before it. Sleep always evaded him; exhaustion did not. He could catch up to exhaustion, or, at least, it could catch up with him, letting him pass out into some dreamless darkness that let him be empty for a while. He knew it was unhealthy. He did it anyway. He always woke up irritable, now, always reaching for the cigarettes that helped his mind to numb, despite all the warnings that he shouldn’t.

His pillow still smelled like someone else’s smoke.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Five: Reality

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, Lots of OCs

Main Ships: Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy

Summary:

His wrists were released, but his legs gave way. Michael stood and watched as his body sank to concrete, watched as his breaths escaped irregular and pained, but agony of all was the way he turned his back.

There was a distressing finality in the click of the lock.

Half a year ago, Mick would have held him, kept him close. Let him listen to the drum of an Übervalved heart. He’d have caught him before he even hit the floor.

He’d have listened to the call of his name.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Four: Consequences

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, Lots of OCs

Main Ships: Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy

Summary:

He had lashed out in desperation, plunging the saw handle-deep into the flesh beneath her ribcage, and she had shrugged it off like it was nothing.

That was where his panic had set in.

This, again, this familiar terror again, the height of that battle where he'd ripped the saw from Australium-powered flesh and let it clatter to the floor, tackled him and pinned him and pressed his head into the mud, but this time it was her and not him but the strength was the same and he'd kicked and struggled until the hand around his neck had made his vision fall black and he thought he would never wake again.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

Run, and Don’t Look Back

Chapter Three: Escape

Fandom: Team Fortress 2

Characters: Team Fortress 2 Ensemble, Lots of OCs

Main Ships: Medic/Sniper, Medic/Heavy, Sniper/Spy

Summary:

For all intents and purposes, they were prisoners.

Paid prisoners, granted, but with no way of leaving and less information than ever before, their isolation was starting to take hold. There seemed to be no way of contacting anyone - upon their glances, Sniper had muttered a reminder that he had no need fer it - and confusion quickly gave way to concern. No calls or letters from Heavy's family, no Mikhail this or Misha that; and no word from Zhanna, who had kept in touch with Soldier the entire time thus far. Scout's mother could not be contacted, nor could his many siblings, and it seemed that the Team had fallen off the face of the Earth.

Five days after their arrival, they finally heard from Miss Pauling.

"From God, the King. From King, the Law."

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.

               “From God, the King. From King, the Law.”

Team Fortress II, finally reunited, have been gifted with a new home. It is specially made for them, and gives them everything they could wish for, the safety and security of a dedicated base. Their morale, however, has been in pieces, ever since the battle with their predecessors. So has their tight-knit friendship, and, in one case, love.

Death is a difficult thing to process, and the sharp sting of betrayal still hangs heavy in the air.

But the mysterious and white-walled Facility holds many dark secrets, darker than anything they have faced before. It is only a matter of time before the truth comes to light.