Taming the Muse

Title: Random Pages from the Histories, XXVIII
Fandom: Original Fiction
Prompt: Hamartia
For Taming the Muse
Warnings: Language, Mucho Blasphemy, Violence, and Dumbass Mistakes Aplenty
Rating: PG-13-ish
Summary: The morning after Declan’s injury (and Sylvie’s healing of the same), Declan demands answers, and Kincaid’s world falls apart.
Word Count: a lot
A/N: Follows The Great Unwashed from last week. ***Edited to include: Also references Arcade, TtM Prompt #5. Arcade is primarily flashback to Declan's early adolescence in the orphanage (specifically an encounter with a boy named Andrew during a summer spent in Italy when they were training), but it does include minor spoiler material for what comes after the current story.

A/N2: Many, many thanks again to meredevachon for the phenomenal and short notice beta.

A/N3: If I didn’t before, I now understand why some sins are considered mortal and why some flaws are tragic. Hamartia was perfect for this stage in the story, but only if you understand that the protagonist of the story is Kincaid even though we get the majority of this from Declan’s POV. It was all originally written from Kincaid’s… and this was a colossal mistake on his part.

What they would say looking back on this now:

Declan: The mistakes were theirs to make. My part was to support and, when necessary, mend the broken pieces.

Kincaid: I couldn’t see another choice. I didn’t see this as a choice so much as the last desperate act of a desperate man. If I had known what would happen… but I didn’t. If we had listened to Declan…

Sylvie: I was nineteen years old, in love, and about to lose my life. What was I supposed to do under those circumstances?

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