¹THE RESTORATION OF JUDAS ▸ the louvre heist fanfiction

Theo Judas used to believe restoration was a kind of resurrection - that if your hands were careful enough, the past would forgive you for touching it. But after a public failure in Florence leaves his career in ruins, he's given one last chance: an invitation to a discreet collaboration inside the Louvre, a letter that was sent to three others like him. The project sounds simple - the restoration of "orphaned artifacts," relics without provenance recovered from private collections. The curator overseeing the project speaks of art as if it were divine punishment. Every brushstroke, every late-night conversation, every sealed envelope draws Theo deeper into a design he can't yet see - one drawn by a man who believes beauty is worth stealing for, and faith is worth breaking. What follows is a descent through art, faith, and illusion, where every restoration is a forgery, and every forgery reveals what truth was never meant to survive.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐕𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍