Through the Dark, With You
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Six months into her time with the VALORANT Protocol, Deadlock is finally finding her footing and becoming a valued member of the team—but the ghosts of her past refuse to fade. Haunted by her trauma and struggling to move forward, she keeps her distance, her world one of sharp edges and solitude. That is, until Fade steps in.
The Initator has seen enough nightmares to recognize them in someone else. What starts as silent understanding and quiet comfort soon turns into stolen moments and whispered confessions, as Fade helps Deadlock face the demons that refuse to let her rest.
As their bond deepens and lines blur between partnership and something more, they find themselves in dangerous territory. Keeping their relationship a secret is a mission in itself, but when the Protocol’s leadership begins to reconsider the no-fraternization rule, the choice between duty and love might not be theirs to make. Will their connection survive the battlefield—and the consequences of being found out?
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- Part 1 of Through the Dark, With You
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Before she was Deadlock, she was just Iselin Røkke—Norway’s most ruthless soldier, a weapon forged in cold steel and colder blood. Two years before the Protocol, before the Vault, before the ghosts she couldn’t outrun, there was Kaia Dharan: handler, interrogator, mercenary. What they had wasn’t love. It was need. Violence. Escape.
In the bitter wilderness of Northern Europe, where Ståljeger operations blur the line between war crimes and salvation, Iselin and Kaia carved out a sanctuary made of mission briefs and bloodstained sheets. Bound by trauma and too alike to stay away, they became each other’s favorite poison—possessive, destructive, and painfully familiar. They were the only ones who understood what it meant to be used, discarded, and emptied out, only to reload and go again.
But monsters don’t get happy endings—and whatever fragile truce they’ve built can’t hold forever. Not with enemies closing in, secrets rotting from the inside, and a storm on the horizon that not even Iselin can survive untouched.
This is the story of who she was before she became someone worth saving. This is what she had to lose to become Deadlock.
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- Part 2 of Through the Dark, With You
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Two years together. Two years of learning how to live instead of just survive. Of soft mornings, jagged nights, and holding each other through the worst of it.
Fade and Deadlock were never supposed to fall in love. Not when they were trained to kill, built to be weapons, and told that monsters like them don’t get happy endings.
But somehow, they did. And now, they’re about to find out what it takes to keep it.
Now nearing their second anniversary, a forced vacation sends them back to Deadlock’s hometown in Norway. It’s supposed to be quiet—rest, recovery, maybe even joy. But ghosts have long memories. Kaia, Deadlock’s old handler and flame, reappears with a smile that cuts too deep. Fade’s long-lost brother, Kadir, is confirmed to be alive, but who's to say he wants to be found?
As shadows from their pasts threaten to pull them under, love alone may not be enough.
But if anyone can claw their way out of the dark, it’s them.
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- Part 3 of Through the Dark, With You