Fic [Alex Rider]: Fighting Shadows

Title: Fighting Shadows
Word Count: 3,172
Summary: 'Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.' Alex has Post Traumatic Stress. It's not just a plot point.

A/N: Immense gratitude goes out to many people for helping and reassuring me over this fic. I find fic that deals with PTSD hard to read, and apparently even harder to write. Thanks go to xaritomene, nuclearxsquid and whocares19_05, who put up with my foibles and my angst every single day, and reassured me that this was worth writing. Thanks also go to the lovely ladies who participate in Word Wars on the LJ comm , who not only made me hash out the actual words to this fic but also encouraged me to share fic in a fandom none of them even knew existed.

Thank you to nuclearxsquid for a sensitive and thorough beta!

Disclaimer: Don’t own it. Never have, never will. The Alex Rider franchise belongs to Anthony Horowitz and the quote in the summary is Stephen Kings.

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