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• Mourn the Living by NakiTengoku

  Fandoms: Half-Life  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  18 Mar 2021

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Barney Calhoun/Gordon Freeman
  • Alyx Vance
  • Gordon Freeman
  • Barney Calhoun
  • Isaac Kleiner
  • The Combine (Half-Life)
  • Combine!Barney
  • Mute Gordon Freeman
  • Sign Language
  • Guns
  • Gordon Freeman is Tired
  • Gordon Freeman has a sense of Humor
  • Barney's the brunt of the joke
  • Alyx finds Gordon hilarious
  • Angst
  • It Gets Worse
  • Barney is a good man
  • Blood
  • Heavily injured Character
  • nobody dies i promise
  • I don't know if I should tag this as graphic depictions or not so please be wary
  • Forehead Kisses
  • hand holding
  • striders
  • Breen gets mentioned once
  • Combine!Barney Au
  • I can't write fighting scenes
  • Hypnotism
  • Sort Of
  • dream segment
  • there's a part where Gordon is dreaming
  • I don't know how to tag that
  • Trauma
  • Domestic Bliss
  • in the dream segment
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Fluff

  Summary

  Gordon Freeman has returned, and Alyx is ready to help him in anyway she can. But neither are prepared to see a ghost from the past, especially on the other side of the war.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,146

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  48

  Kudos:

  163

  Bookmarks:

  13

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