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• To Burn by Spectralelectral (Caesuraaa)

  Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • No category
  • Complete Work

  19 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Rusty (Starlight Express)
  • Slick (Mentioned)
  • Greaseball (mentioned)
  • this aint about them though
  • Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Bad Ending
  • Fire
  • Vomiting
  • Major Character Injury
  • Betrayal
  • Burns
  • Bullying
  • Discrimination
  • Gore
  • Robot Gore
  • train gore
  • I googled way too many train related things for this
  • Writer does not have a science degree
  • So likely inaccuracies with fire and metal
  • sorry - Freeform
  • Don't Like Don't Read
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • unsympathetic slick
  • Rusty POV - Freeform
  • Not Beta Read
  • Shoutout Burn from Hamilton
  • Starlight Express Wembley Production (2024)

  Summary

  Rusty was always on fire.

  But this time, it was different.

  Aka what if the "fire on the tracks" wasn't five seconds of haze and sirens and instead something horrific.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,376

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  8

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  47