Drabble: Counterfeit (The Prestige, Angier/Borden, PG)
Title: Counterfeit
Fandom: The Prestige
Pairing: Angier/Borden
Rating: PG13
Words: 100
Note: For ribby, because she wanted it.


Rupert understands at once that the one he once loved is the one he sent to the grave, for a crime committed by this one. Now he has always known that Freddie wasn't Alfred. Then, as later, two men shared that once-admired body.

But what he cannot say, as his life ebbs, is whether the man to whom Borden made love long ago was himself or one of the others. The secret aristocrat, the obsessed magician, the boy who wouldn't grow up... the hundred and one faces of the Great Danton, who took the fall for him into the pit.