Okay, hear me out, an au in which Alex and Henry are supernatural beings who are at war with each other. Alex is hired to kill Henry and he would do so happily. Only it is all a ploy of Mary to incite a brutal war between the two clans and justify it. Happy ending,ofc
Please know that I audibly gasped reading this lmao
ONE: When Alex is hired, he doesn't tell June. He doesn't tell his parents. He does, however, tell Nora—he honestly doesn't know if he tells her so she'll support him or so she'll talk him out of it, but she doesn't do either. Instead, she quizzes him to within an inch of his life about who hired him (some random guy), what reason they gave (did they really need one? I mean, it's Henry), how did they get the money (who cares as long as they have it?)
TWO: The thing is. The thing. Is. Alex doesn't even believe in this whole fucking war. He's not stupid. All the propaganda he's been fed his whole life—the other side are being fed the same lies about them. He doesn't hate Henry for what he is. He hates Henry for who he is.
THREE: The first time he finds Henry alone, Alex has his dagger halfway out of his sheath when he realises that the grassy patch Henry is sitting on is, in fact, a grave. His father's grave. And... well. Some things are sacred.
FOUR: Nora finds him in the tavern, watching the way Henry laughs with the bartender, something ugly rolling through his stomach. She tells him that something about the way he was hired didn't sit right, she tells him she's been asking questions, she tells him...
FIVE: He tells Henry. Of course he tells Henry. He breaks Henry's heart and saves his life in the same breath.
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