Somebody Else {lashton}

"Well, you look like yourself, but you're somebody else"

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The first thing Ashton noticed as he woke was pain. A full bodied, debilitating pain. He saw only the blinding white ceiling, the smell of chemical cleaners burned in his nose. He could hear the rapid beeping of his own heart monitor as its tempo increased.

And then, "Leon?" The figure shifted, a familiar shape. But he held his body differently, posture stiff, slightly taller, not quite right.

Ashton turned his head to look at the man across the room. A hospital room, the accident. "Who are you?" Ashton asked because this - this man, dressed to the nines in a three piece suit, one leg crossed elegantly over the other - this was most certainly not Leon, no matter the resemblance.

"When my brother spoke of his lovely wife Alex," Not-Leon began, "I did not imagine you."

••••

In a terrible case of mistaken identity, Ashton Irwin finds himself countries away from home raising a child that is not his in a family he can't deserve.