Brothers in the Night
Title: Brothers in the Night
Series: Dragon Age
Characters: Alistair Theirin, Cailan Theirin, F!Cousland
Words: 2,215
Summary: A What-If? story that popped into my head while reading What We Become by Crisium, wherein Teagan has a thought of Cailan and Alistair together - like brothers, not strangers. So I decided to give the poor Theirin boys their shot at knowing each other on the night before the Horde comes out of the Wilds and everything changes. And take a little creative license with Cailan's personality.
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Stumbling around the Wardens camp at Ostagar at night hadn’t led Alistair to think he’d run into the one person he’d been trying to avoid since his arrival. With him being who he was and him being well…the King, he hadn’t expected it.
Yet here they were blundering up against each other in the dark, him with an apology dying on his lips and all Alistair could think to say was a stammered, “What are you doing here?”
Cailan frowned and it was just downright creepy to be looking at a face so similar to his own. Then the King said bluntly, “Well, I was having a drink. Now I’m having a conversation.”
The words were so like something he’d say that Alistair was stunned into silence. He blinked and felt his lips move but there weren’t any words to form around them. There had been many times he’d considered what he’d say to his half-brother if they met again after that one failure of a time as children. He’d had the whole thing planned out once.
Now that the moment was here, of course, all the words fled and left him feeling like the fumbling boy who had slept in the stables again.