#this fic will be the Brightwelliest Brightwell I have ever Brightwelled and yet will be canon compliant so they won't fully Brightwell

[soulfireinc]

Weapon (for the guess a word thingy mabobber.)

Mabobber is my new favourite word and ily

“You talk about putting a dog out of its misery?,” Malcolm said, desperation cracking through his voice like gunfire. “Well I’m a thoroughbred racehorse so scarred by the demons it sees you don’t wait for it to break its leg. You shoot it in the head.”

Wynn’s eyes were round in awed understanding. The gun stopped its absentminded oscillation between his heart and Dani’s head as she stepped forward.

“You’re right,” Wynn breathed, gazing up at him as though he’d given her the meaning of life. “You don’t wait. Your pain is greater.”

The weapon rose, dark and duplicitously silent, its ravenous maw drawing Malcolm’s eye, swallowing him into its endless depths. It stopped, squared with his forehead.

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