coveting desperate things
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The following are excerpts from the working memoir manuscript of Lord Downey, Master of the Assassins' Guild.
The contents of this particular excerpt include the Incident of The Murder Flat [working title] and some musings on growing up during the height of the Quayside Killer.
The Patrician would like it known that anyone who uses any of the names assigned to him in this work, not counting his birth name, could become very intimately acquainted with the Scorpion Pit.
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- Part 1 of coveting desperate things
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The beginning of an understanding which includes many ruminations upon memories and language.
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- Part 2 of coveting desperate things
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It is early days of this thing called a ReLaTiOnShIp(?) between Downey and Vetinari--all very new, Vetinari would like to note that emotions are a bug and not feature. Downey is here to smoke a lot of cigarettes and be dramatic about things. However, the untimely murder of Downey's brother-in-law puts a bit of a wrench in things, made worse by the announcement that his (estranged) father may or may not be dying soon. All deeply inconvenient for everyone involved. There are parallels of past and present because families are a sticky business, always, and things that happened thirty years ago have a strange ability to cycle back through your life.
[I have rewritten Thus, Always because I wanted to finish the story but had left it too long to pick it back up and start where I left off, so I just redid the whole thing. There are differences between the OG Thus, Always and this one. This one still works within the broader AU timeline of Murder Flat stories etc.]
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- Part 3 of coveting desperate things
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Follow up to Mask of the Ordinary.
Six months have passed with little movement since the discovery of thirty-year old bodies. Downey is his disastrously curious self (and feeling terribly vindicated). Vetinari just wants things to be Sorted (sooner rather than later). Angua dreams of the day when she will be left alone. And Vimes desires to remind everyone whose bleeding jurisdiction this all falls under.
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- Part 4 of coveting desperate things
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Mericet passes. Downey is honestly surprised that the man was capable of dying and that he feels anything at all about it.
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- Part 5 of coveting desperate things