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• The Trail Away From Doom by Kayliana

  Fandoms: Breaking Bad  

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

  16 Apr 2025

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  • Jesse Pinkman/Walter White
  • Walter White
  • Jesse Pinkman
  • The Disappearer | Ed
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Codependency
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • Manipulation
  • Eventual Smut
  • Eventual Romance
  • Angst and Feels
  • Lack of Communication
  • Richard Siken References
  • Episode: s05e14 Ozymandias
  • Dubious Consent
  • Ozymandias (the Shelley poem) references
  • Unhealthy Relationships
  • AU in which Walt doesn't say "found him" and they BOTH go to New Hampshire
  • Spoilers
  • WALTJESSE WEEK 2023
  • Starting Over
  • Obsession
  • did i mention the codependency and manipulation and unhealthy relationship
  • not exactly Stockholm Syndrome but perhaps Stockholm Syndrome adjacent
  • WaltJesse Week 2024
  • Angst and Fluff and Smut
  • Hopeful Ending

  Summary

  The words are on the tip of Walt's tongue—found him—but he hesitates. He's losing everything else—he can't lose Jesse too. So he swallows the words instead, and that changes everything.

  (in which Walt never says "found him" in Ozymandias, and they both go to the cabin in New Hampshire)

  originally for WaltJesse Week 2023 - day 7, prompt: empire or starting over. Later chapters fulfill prompts for WaltJesse Week 2024 :)

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