#why does the august gif look slightly rusty? no idea i accidently deleted the files so your guess is as good as mine

[fabdante]

Retrospect

Right. She’d brought that incident earlier today. When Fiona and them were in the back room of the bar, talking about Fiona’s predicament while her bandit captors drank in the noise of the rest of the Purple Skag. That time Vallory had her outside of the bio-dome and-...well...she doesn't like to think about the rest. “I don’t blame you, you know,” she says. “It’s not like you stabbed me.” “But I let her stab you,” he replies, frowning to no one in particular beside himself as he studies the skin. “Didn’t even do anything after she did, I just let her do it.” “August, I knew your mom for about a day,” she says, trying to meet his gaze in some sort of extension of comfort but he’s too focused on her scar. His stare is distant, like he’s trapped and trying to map a way to keep her from getting it. Some sort of answer he could give to keep his mothers knife at bay. Maybe there were a magic set of words from him or her or Rhys or Fi or anyone else that’d make that happen. But that’s not the reality Sasha knows. “She’d probably have stabbed you if you said anything.” “Yeah, she would have,” he says, no particular malice or hesitation in his tone because it might as well be fact. “Doesn’t mean I should have let her stab you.”

Summery: After the Vault Key (and getting Rhys and Fiona back from….where ever they went), Sasha's fallen into a very comfortable life with August in Hollow Point. At least until her sister gets herself into trouble, leaving Sasha reflecting on the events of her life while she and August wait for Rhys to pick up his goddamn phone.

Words: 7,423

Rating: T (swearing, implied past child abuse, references to canon typical violence, also ample bullying of Rhys)

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