***WARNING: THIS SUBMISSION IS ABOUT A DARK EVENT IN THE PAST CONCERNING ELLAC’S ABUSE/PARENT’S DEATH. THIS IS NOT A FAMILY FRIENDLY STORY.***

*Contains domestic violence

Double clarifying here, but in this fic, the flashback are pieces of fiction that were either submitted to a competition prior, or written by someone else and are a part of clan lore. The adjusted word count for this fiction should be somewhere around 1615 words. Thank you, and happy reading!

All affiliations, ship names, models, and character ranks are correct for the time period in which the story was set.

303 words of dialogue in chapter 5 are reused from a previous story, this time told from a different POV.

A snippet of the larger AU between Q and Ruka