I Love This

i love this

we all burn as one

Pairing: Joe Blake/Juliana Crain Rating: PG-13 Warnings: Language, mentions of canon-typical violence. Summary: This takes place sometime during season two but is largely canon divergent. A story wherein Joe Blake starts to suspect what his father is up to, and reaches out to John Smith for help. He doesn’t expect the voice that greets him on the other end of the line.  Author’s Note: Special thanks to @ariadnequagmire for convincing me to write this/generally freaking out over this pairing with me.

It takes him two days after he realizes his father wants to turn the entire Reich inside out before he calls John Smith.

He’s not sure why – after all, he has no reason to trust the man, and the same goes the other way. The Obergruppenführer gave him orders, and Joe defied those orders at every turn. Not only that, but he practically worked with the Resistance.

He’s a traitor.

There’s no reason why John Smith should help him now.

When he gets back to the mansion, he picks up the phone. He hates himself for it, because he let John Smith manipulate him at every turn, but he has no other choice. He has no one left to turn to.

The rings seem to go on forever, and just when his heart rate starts to pick up, a voice answers on the other end of the line.

“Smith residence.”

Joe freezes, phone pressed to his ear, blood frozen in his veins.

“Hello?”

He can’t speak. He can’t open his mouth because it’s her. He would know that voice anywhere – he hears it in his dreams, and in his wildest fantasies when he’s running on too little sleep.

“Juliana.” He croaks, and he knows he’s not imagining the hitch of breath he hears on the other end of the line.

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