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    The Vatican. A city-state of unshakeable faith, immovable power, and inescapable drama. Behind the gilded doors of the Apostolic Palace, alliances are forged, betrayals are whispered, and centuries of tradition rest in the perfectly manicured hands of men who can quote canon law and hold a grudge for a lifetime. Here, gossip is a sacrament, pettiness is a sacred duty, and even the holiest among them can’t resist a little scandal over afternoon tea. Welcome… to a new season of... The Real Housewives of Vatican City.

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    "He didn’t feel like he fit in with the polished marble buildings, and despite not having access to a mirror, he could guess that his dirty clothes, bloodstained shoes and unwashed hair didn’t quite seem fitting of a cardinal."

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    Vincent arrives at the Vatican sleep deprived, hungry, and with a feeling of wrongness. He doesn't realise how used he has become to war.

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  4. 25

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    Sexy asides from my story You Say It Loud And You Go From There! Pure smut

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    A 'Volo ut Sis' browser-based game. Coming soon to your interwebs. :)

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    "Thankfully, no one questions his pale face and sunken eyes, ‘The papacy is a great burden,’ they tell him, ‘it would be strange if you were not exhausted.’ No one comments on the way his hands shake when holding morning mass in the Sanctae Marthae chapel, or on the fact that he sometimes disappears to his room without food after blessing the meals in the dining hall."

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    Vincent Benítez left his home to do the duty assigned to him by the late Holy Father. Four days later he stands in front of the world and understands that he will never be able to return.

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    To people who don't know him Aldo Bellini can seem harsh. Calculated. Robotic even.
    To people who don't know Vincent Benitez, he might seem rash. Careless. Naive.

    The search for secretary of state might prove difficult.

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    What if Pride and Prejudice but Elizabeth Bennet is the Pope and Darcy is the former Secretary of state

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  8. 19

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    Pope Innocent XIV and Dean Cardinal Lawrence are drawn to each other, even as they cling to lines they vowed never to cross. The secrets they each keep only make it that much harder.

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  9. 88

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    "Let me help.” A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over “I love you."
    - Star Trek, 'The City on the Edge of Forever'

    Pope Innocentius may be, as the papers say, pure, unblemished, a saint in human form - but Vincent Benítez is very much a man, and wants nothing more than to go home.

    Thomas Lawrence will see him through, no matter the cost.

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    Cardinal Giulio Sabbadin, the razor-tongued and emotionally repressed Archbishop of Milan, is unraveling. His world shifts when he discovers that his best friend, the serene and precise Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, is secretly dating Vincent. This revelation stirs feelings Giulio doesn’t want to name—not about Thomas, but about being left behind.

    Enter Monsignor Raymond O’Malley: Thomas’s gentle, composed Irish secretary. Raymond is everything Giulio is not—gracious, unflappable, kind—and the only person who seems immune to Giulio’s cutting sarcasm. Raymond sees straight through him, and worse, seems to care anyway.

    Watching all this unfold are Cardinal Goffredo Tedesco and Cardinal Aldo Bellini, now blissfully coupled and cohabiting after years of theological warfare and romantic tension. Goffredo, chaotic and loving every minute of Giulio’s meltdown, makes it his mission to meddle. So does Thomas. So does Vincent. :)

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  11. 32

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    He awoke with a gasp, shooting straight up in his bed. It was not unlike the sensation of falling down while asleep and jolting awake. But this was much, much worse. He sat there, a sob caught in his throat, shaking violently, pressing the balls of his wrists into his eyes.

    The images from Vincent’s nightmare still flashed behind his eyes so clearly as though it were real. The ear splitting blast from the explosion, the shrapnel from the car bomb ricocheting in every direction and piercing his flesh. The dream was as realistic as the day it had actually happened in Kabul, but the only thing that had changed from the reality of that day was the figure bleeding out next to him in this nightmare.

    Thomas.

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    Vincent has been having nightmares, and unexpectedly runs into Thomas late at night.

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  12. 6

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    Vatican City. Conclave. Private chamber. Late night.

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    “You are not well,” Salvador returns. “You are overflowing with…” he pauses to search for the word and he finds it, “grief. You’re grieving. It has hollowed you out.”

     

    “I have nothing to grieve for.”

     

    “You’re lying, Thomas.”

     

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    Vincent Benítez becomes Pope Innocent XIV. Thomas Lawrence stays behind.

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    Following Tremblay's election, Thomas Lawrence is forced to resign and ends up in a refugee camp in Jordan, working side by side with Cardinal Vincent Benítez.

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    Outside, the temperatures are still cool, but Thomas can still see the first signs of spring: the days are getting longer, there are green sprouts on the trees. And he can see them in himself, too. It’s unexpected, but many unexpected things have happened, these last few months. His soul feels lighter, prayer comes more easily, even his knees are behaving.

    Of course, he can’t ignore the root of these changes, although he wishes he could.

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    Aldo Bellini, the newly elected Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, is thrust into a situation which will forever alter his views on faith, the world and his fellow Men in Christ—especially a certain aggravating Venetian Cardinal with a bad temper and a worse attitude.

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    Thomas Lawrence is in a dark alley at 1:30 in the morning when he discovers something peculiar.

    A priest.

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  18. 53

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    Goffredo Tedesco doesn't do graduate students, Americans, or flings with tourists. Aldo Bellini swore he wouldn't fall in love over a semester abroad. After a night out in Rome, suddenly everything is different.

    Maybe one summer of shared cigarettes would be enough. Maybe it would have to be.
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    una volta ogni morte di papa: lit., "once every time the pope dies." fig., "once in a blue moon."

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    Conclave 2024 but make them musicians (and managers) and make them take part in Festival di Sanremo.

    Tedesco, one of the most famous Italian singers, is planning on making a comeback after a six year hiatus. His manager and friend Vincent Benitez suggests he takes part in Festival di Sanremo. Tedesco relents but he has some opinions and he will make them everyone's problem. Especially when a certain American rock band, The Cardinals, are invited as special guests.

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    Cardinal Lawrence faces the aftermath of the conclave.

    It goes like this: he understands his duties, and understands his new position in the Vatican. He unable to understand what he is feeling.

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    • 07 Dec 2025

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      one of the most amazing fics you will ever read

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