fic: The Price

Title: The Price
Series: FE4/5
Character/pairing: Reinhardt/Ishtar
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: To bring back Princess Ishtar's smile, Reinhardt is willing to do anything. Be it murder, or betrayal.
Author's note:

CW: Canon-typical violence. (Maybe a little harsher than canon, but violent assassination is pretty in line with general Jugdral content warnings.)

And I guess a warning for the kind of relationship where killing someone is a token of love. But that was already implied.

This AU assumes an alternate timeline where:
-Reinhardt wasn't dismissed so much as Ish told him "go lay low for a while" and he helped her betray the empire.
Reinhardt never joined the River Thracia, because he was ordered to stay close.
Ish overheard the convo between Manfroy and Veld that reveals Loptous church was using Friege as cannon fodder and she's fucking pissed.
It's the final battle, but neither Rein or Ish has died.
Ish is still in the more gray area of betraying Julius while still being in his army.


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