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Olivia and Noah return home after trick or treating to find someone waiting for them.
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Corto Maltese, not long after by von_gikkingen
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), Suicide Squad (Movies 2016 2021), DCU
07 Mar 2025
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“Back among the living for the worst of reasons,” the woman adds, taking a sip from her drink and treating me to an appreciative smile. Letting me know I have chosen something sweet enough to be to her liking – even while the Polka-Dot Man joylessly finishes his flavorless vodka and gestures for another.
Giving credence to everything his companion is saying with his body language alone. Holding himself the way only those who don’t know how to expect anything other than defeat do.
“I still think he can make something of it. This new life. It need not be a continuation of the old. You have an entire questionable tropical paradise to start anew in and…”
“A stalker I can’t shake,” the man says, speaking for the first time.
“That is hardly the word you would use for a stray cat that followed you home,” the woman says, nothing if not amused by the comment. “I am not a human being, Abner Krill. If I have followed you through life, it was not through the asylums and penitentiaries. I did not stalk, I… watched. It broke my heart just a little to know I will never again witness you force yourself through another day of waking.”
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