Tipping Scales

for prompt "you're being followed, but you don't know why" (though also kind of fits "killers to...?")

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"Wrong apartment," Awsten said, failing to keep his voice steady because what the fuck someone was in his apartment with a knife.
"I don't think so." His accent caught Awsten off-guard. Australian. In Los Angeles. Awsten vaguely recalled having an Australian neighbor-Michael maybe-but they'd never met and now he wished it'd stayed that way.

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In which Michael breaks into Awsten's apartment with a knife and Awsten's few boxing lessons might not be enough to save him.

getting this down to 996 words was a STRUGGLE but we got there