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Slip the Hangman’s Noose and Run (977 words) by thesavagesabretooth
Summary: What if there was one thing the Phantom was more afraid of than dying?
What if instead of following orders, he had thrown everything away for Simon Blackquill?
What if they ran?
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The man that the prosecutorial department called ‘The Phantom’ wasn’t anyone. He was a man without a past– without a face– without an identity. Without a future. He was No-One.
But Simon Blackquill made him feel like someone. He made him feel like someone, even if that someone was ‘Bobby Fulbright’, a man he had killed and stolen the face of and who he occasionally heard the nagging tones of in the depths of his mind.
He was No-One, and he felt nothing. But when he was Bobby Fulbright, when he put on the mask, something was wrong. He felt things.
He fell in love with SImon Blackquill. The very man who could destroy him.
The Phantom was afraid. He was afraid of failing his mission. He was afraid of the wrath of his handlers, who were already growing impatient. The Hat-2 launch was his last chance to prove himself valuable, or he’d be disposed of like trash. Like nothing. Like no one.
Just like the state was going to do to Simon Blackquill in a few days time.
No-One stared into the mirror, and Bobby Fulbright stared back.
He was afraid of the love that he felt for Simon Blackquill.
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