Deleted Scenes of Knight, part 1 (everything before Here's What You Missed)

AO3 has been struggling over the weekend, so here's some off-AO3 bonus content for the Cover of Knight universe.

When I cut something from the main draft (a whole scene, a conversation, sometimes just a single good line), I usually stick it at the bottom of the document, hoping I'll find a place to use it later. Sometimes that works out! But there's a growing pile of deleted scenes where I finally realized "this is probably never going to fit in."

(Sometimes because the characters/plot/etc have developed too much, or went in a different direction. Sometimes because it's re-expositing a thing I ended up doing exposition for in another way.)

So...here's the first 3600 words of that. Scenes that were cut from Cover of Knight, Reveals by Knight, and all the bonus fics in between -- everything before the start of Here's What You Missed.

( You never got to look into each other's eyes before! Ooh, this is, like, tragic? But also, the. Sweetest. Thing )