The way it was

It was Knightley who suggested they run away from the orphanage together. He didn't know what exactly was happening, Simon would never tell anyone what he saw that night. It's not like it would do him any good. So they left together and from there, their teenage years were lived fighting poverty, finding themselves and navigating feelings. But deep down the memories that had stayed hidden, avoided, could change everything if they emerged.A fic focusing on snapshots of Simon and Knightley's life if they had run away from the orphanage together, and if it were many years before Simon remembered the memories that eventually lead him down his murderous path.