Quantum Tales from District 2
This collection comprises the infinite and ever-growing alternate universes branching off from We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2.
An attempt to organize the various spin-offs, one-shots and occasional juggernaut AUs of the We Must be Killers universe for easy access. Subcollections will be updated with various universes as they are added.
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This is what happens when we break the rules.
Alec is twelve, biding his time in District 2. He has one more year before he joins his brother and best friend in the Residential Career program, and whispers of unrest in the districts mean his parents are tense and distracted.
When the Games in his final summer at home have an unusual Reaping and a Two Male tribute who tests the Capitol's limits, old traumas and new fears collide as Alec struggles to understand his father and the world.
Civilian POV of Fixed to a Star.
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- Part 30 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Creed was born for the Arena. Knowing his destiny makes him a little solemn or a little insufferable (depending on whether you ask his parents or his brother), but at least he's not afraid to die. His life runs along its predetermined path until two weeks before the Reaping, when Creed injures his knee in training and gets sent home.
What does a child of indoctrination do with a lifetime of glory-in-death and nowhere to use it?
And what does the younger brother do when, for the first time, he steps into the sun with no one in his way?
(A different Make Us Proud Victor Alec AU where Creed survives)
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“You — want to talk to me about my feelings? Did you lose a bet?”
“Ha, ha.” Selene aims the pillow at his face, but Alec catches it one-handed. “Do you like Claudius?”
Not EVERYTHING is trauma.
Part of the Victor Alec AU.
Series
- Part 5 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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“You’re as disgustingly sincere as your brother,” Callista says with deceptive mildness. “Did no one teach you how to shield your feelings?”
Alec was never meant to win -- but he did. So now what?
Part of the Victor Alec AU.
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- Part 4 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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The card arrives in Joseph’s mailbox two days before the Reaping. Plain card, good stock, incongruous against the handwritten note scribbled in pencil.
'you’ll want to be there'
No name. No return address. No postage, even. It’s a slip of paper stolen from a box of identical cards in an office somewhere, handed off to a colleague and passed down to friends of friends until it wound up here, caught between his thumb and forefinger. The wind is a roaring tunnel in his ears. The birdsong in the trees has fallen silent. Joseph stares at the paper and wonders who risked their job to send him this.
From the beginning, Joseph's oldest son was meant for victory, his youngest to carry on the family name. But Creed suffered an ugly death in the Arena, and two years later, it's Alec on stage at the Reaping. This was never the plan.
Joseph POV of Fleeing Shadows.
Series
- Part 2 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec