2023-08-26 9:49:05 ¶ ●

some part of me must have died - Raxheim - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir [Archive of Our Own]

> When the time comes, it’s almost… anticlimactic. The knife goes in, the blood comes out, the baby dies. And the rock remains unmoved.

my contribution to @tlt-monthly-prompts AUgust theme!!! what if Wake survived long enough to bring her newborn child to the tomb, and killed her. And then the baby did not die.

ft: Canon Typical Unkillable Baby Gideon Nav, Wake entering the ring as a strong contender in Worst Parents TLT Edition, and Gideon having perhaps the most horrible first 48 hours of existence one could have but like what if everything after that actually turned out better for her.

Rating: M (for violence) | 1.2k