Strategic Maneuvers
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A Change in Tactics by Delta_Pavonis
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
27 Oct 2022
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This was… not exactly how Hob had planned it to go...
What was supposed to happen was that a thrown cup of hot tea and a few well-placed punches would take down Constantine’s duo of ruffians and then they’d only have the lovely Lady herself to deal with. Two immortals against one probably-human… that was good odds. And it absolutely would have worked… if those were the only goons Lady Johanna had decided to bring with her. (They weren’t.) Oh, and if they hadn’t had some magic fucking bullets. (They did.)
So instead now Hob had his hands bound at the small of his back, one shoulder wrenched out of place, the other with a crossbow bolt in it, shards of the saucer from his teacup lodged in his thigh, a slash across his upper and lower lip, clothes completely ruined, the cravat used to gag him soaked through with his own blood, someone else's blood matting his hair and dripping into one eye… all that and yet he was looking up into his Stranger’s smug ass fucking little grin.
What if 1789 went just a little differently?
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- Part 1 of Strategic Maneuvers
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Military Offensive by Delta_Pavonis
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
09 Mar 2024
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“We have to stop meeting like this!” Hob laughed as he broke the barstool in his hands over the head and shoulders of another patron of the White Horse Inn. Said patron had just previously been trying to stab Hob with a shard of wine bottle so he most decidedly deserved it. Hob pulled a chunk of wood from where it had lodged in his palm and frowned at the blood that welled up there. A crash to his left stole his attention. “Ope. Watch out Lou!”
Lou ducked the tankard aimed at her head with all the sliding fluid grace of one well-acquainted with being deep in her cups. She didn’t spill a single drop of her own ale as she backed around the bar and out of the Inn through the alleyway door. Lou may have been part of starting this fight, but she clearly had no intention of finishing it. Which was just fine by Hob. Lou didn’t deserve to be in hospital any more than absolutely necessary. She had enough going on, as Hob had just learned.
Speaking of his mysterious friend…
Sequel to A Change in Tactics
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- Part 2 of Strategic Maneuvers