Not to Yield
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No-one asks to be a Second-Timer. Life is hard enough once - to go through it again, bearing the memories and regrets of a lifetime, would be bad enough even if it wasn't a social stigma.
Jack doesn't know why he's suddenly waking up screaming and bearing scars he never earned. He doesn't know why he apparently died young and terrified, full of regrets. He just knows he's not interested in being sent away to programs for Second-Timers, even if he might meet other kids like himself, and he doesn't want to keep remembering the life he'd failed to live properly the first time.
He does wish he could remember who Alexander was, though, and why he'd died thinking of him.
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- Part 1 of Not to Yield
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A side-story to Much Abides, this lines up beginning with Chapter 22 of that story. This will make literally no sense unless you're reading that, so be warned!
Alex knows who he is, now, and what he has lost. What he doesn't know is whether he can get any of it back.
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- Part 2 of Not to Yield
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Alex has no use for Alexander Hamilton, or anything that his egotistical, screwed-up, moronic genius of a predecessor ever did. Reincarnation is the literal worst, and Alex has no intention of letting the mistakes of his former life screw up his chances to do better the second time around. The Department can stick him in yet another foster home if they like, but there's nothing they can do to make him stay. He's not interested in doing therapy, or making friends, or integrating back into society. If there's one thing he learned last time, it's that no-one will have his back.
But a new placement might mean a new beginning, if Alex could manage to get Hamilton's chip off his shoulder, and if he can ever figure out exactly why some of his new acquaintances seem so suddenly, achingly familiar.
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- Part 3 of Not to Yield