Author's note : Okay, I have no idea of the reason why I chose this ship, but here I am... Canon divergence on many points, obviously...
1. Angst :
August looked as his leg slowly but surely turning into wood, which made him only closer and closer to the moment where he would not be able anymore to breath at all, the day he would die, which would also mean his failure if he couldn't succeed to make the Savior believe, and he began to count the days, asking himself when exactly it would happen.
He said nothing to Graham, obviously.
2. AU :
It's strange, really, the feeling of this beating heart in his hand, weird, maybe a little scary too, but Henry told him that Emma didn't believe Graham about his missing heart, so he went into Regina's vault, in order to see if he could do something about that, and he found it.
He still doesn't know well the Huntsman, but he knows that no one in the world deserves to be condemned to live without a heart.
(When he gives it back to Graham, there is something that brightens in the sheriff' eyes which goes beyond gratefulness, and which makes him feel something he didn't feel since years...
It's not unpleasant, really not...)
3. Crack!Fic :
"...
- ...
- Why is there still nothing written ?
- Because only the idea of pairing the two of us together is a crack!fic itself ! Seriously, almost nobody writes about us ! Logical, since you died even before I met you... Do you really think that there is anything else relevant we can say ?
- Hum... Indeed... According to you, how did she get this idea, since it was not a suggestion this time ?
- It's coming from the person whose ultimate OTP is Hookfire, does that kind of thing really surprise you ?
- Well, you've got a point..."
4. Crossover [Tales From the Kingdoms] :
The Huntsman is here because of his job, and, as he sees Petra fall in love with Belle, he realizes he is much more interested by the former wooden boy who is her best friend...
5. First Time :
He had seen his leg made of wood, by accident, it shouldn't have happened at all...
There, Graham had knew that he was anything but mad.
6. Fluff :
August put back his heart at its right place this day, literally speaking, in his chest, just where it should have always been, after he took it in Regina's vault.
If Graham was in a poetic mood, he would surely say that the other man symbolically stole it from him at the same time...
7. Humor :
"Just... why the two of us ? Why putting us together, it just doesn't make any sense !
- I broke the timeline anyway, so I don't give a fuck about that... And I always break canon, so that's not strange coming from me... You just have both a lot of traumas, I thought it could be interesting to exploit them by pairing you together...
- Bloody sadist...
- Thanks for the compliment !"
8. Hurt/Comfort :
Graham, who just got his memory back at the same time he got his heart back, listened to Pinocchio telling his about his remorse, without saying a word, until he said :
"It was not your fault...
- What ?
- Well, not completely. You were just a kid completely lost, you made what you could do with what you had. The blue fairy and your father shouldn't have to send you here all alone."
As he heard this, Pinocchio began to cry.
It was the first time somebody was telling him that he was not the only responsible of this shitty situation.
(Well, it was the first time at all that he was talking about this...
And that somebody listened.
And believed him.
Hell, it felt so good !)
9. Family :
Graham never had a family, except the wolves.
Pinocchio always had just his father and the blue fairy, then Emma, then no one at all.
Together, all of them together, they can be a family, strange and twisted, indeed, but it's still a family...
10. Love :
He just wanted to feel something, something else which wasn't the emptiness left by his lack of heart, this heart Regina took him away once, and remembering it happened only made things worst.
What he has with August, this is not love, it doesn't have anything to do with love in fact; and it will probably never be love at all if the curse is not broken and if he doesn't get his heart back, but to know that the other man is at least as desperate as he is, maybe more, it has something sadly comforting in some way.
Next chapter : Queen and Dark One.
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This and all these other things.
Fanfiction[S1-7] : Series of microfics about different couples/non-romantic duos of Once Upon A Time. Multipairing. There will be some couples/non-romantic duos from season 7 and OUAT in Wonderland, so there will be spoilers. If you want to propose some, don'...
