Title: These Three
Fandom: The Musketeers (2014)
Rating: T
Length: N/A
Content notes: implied Canon Typical Violence
Author notes: Post Series 1 of The Musketeers. Prompt was 'family'.
Summary: In which Athos contemplates the three men he now calls family.



He looks around at the three men sleeping heavily around him and finds himself pondering just how lucky he has become. That in reworking his life into something that he is quite proud to call his own and in the process he found something precious to be treasured for all time.

That he can – in his heart – be allowed to call these specific three his family.

The day had been long and treacherous, with it came the near losses of the lives belonging to the three that have wormed their ways into his heart and soul. If he had lost all of them, he does not truly know what he do without them.

Perhaps return to the bottle as he drowned his sorrows and continued to play the part of the ever loyal dutiful soldier.

Not tonight though.

Tonight he will guard his family in quiet silence and later tend to their injured bodies as much as they will allow him as he quietly murmurs his utmost apologies for causing them disturbance and further discomfort.