Discworld
Lu Tze
'Tis Impossible To Be Sure Of Any Thing by Karanguni
'There was almost a sense that he'd cheated somehow; as though seeing Death around the corner during some of his assignments was some kind of unfair advantage that the gods had extended a scholarship boy.' Winds neatly around canon to a perfect ending that could easily have been written by Pratchett
[Added 15/04/2015; Drama; 6000-20,000; Discworld; Characters: Moist von Lipwig, Havelock Vetinari, Death, Lu Tze, Rufus Drumknott, Leonardo da Quirm]