One by One By Kastaka (R)

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Fandom: WATCHMEN
Pairing: (Gen) Rorschach, Silk Spectre II
Length: ~1300 words
Author on LJ: Author is on AO3
Author Website: http://archiveofourown.org/users/Kastaka/

Why this must be read:
We see Laurie partnered with a post-Roche Rorschach, as he behaves the way a post-Roche Rorschach does. The author gives us his broken yet alarmingly logical world-view, and Laurie's unwilling fascination with it as she follows him in spite of her horror. I was in love with this one from the beginning:

"I know you're in there."

From anybody else, it would be a taunt. It would rise and fall in a sing-song fashion, tempting the person who is supposedly in there to come out and face the music.

In Rorshach's voice, it is flat. It is a statement of fact. He does, in fact, know you are in there.


One By One


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