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    “You know I’d be perfectly glad to give you a crack at it, Ed. I’d…it’s always me. And of course, I thoroughly enjoy a…a good round of cards. But if you’d like a turn, I–I think I’d actually rather enjoy giving you the reins for once.”

    And why the fuck does his voice sound so pitchy and anxious and tight?

    It’s…it’s fucking solitaire.

    “Just don’t think I’ll be as good at it as you, love,” Ed murmurs truthfully.

    “I think–” Stede confesses quietly. “I think you’d be very good, if you were willing to give it a shot. Methodical. Careful. Gentle.”

    Ed frowns. He tilts his head to try and catch Stede’s gaze, but Stede quickly looks away.

    “Do you,” Ed begins, hesitant and feeling strangely wrongfooted, like there’s a conversation happening in Stede’s head that he isn’t a part of. “Do you need to be particularly gentle with playing cards?”

    (OR: Stede is not talking about solitaire. A post-canon romp about quality time, communication, sex, and being brave enough to ask for the things you want.)

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    08 Dec 2024

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    Stede draws his attention back to the head massage, alternating pressure from the kind of bruising that’s enough to knead a migraine away, to gentle, delicate strokes through his hair. He grows almost meditative with it, forcing his eyes away from Ed’s face and simply enjoying the feeling of body heat and cool, damp-silk hair against his palms. Truthfully, he could do this for hours, rather than the usual three-to-five minutes that’s usually afforded to customers when they…

    When…

    It’s been longer than three-to-five minutes.

    A quick glance at the clock reveals it’s been far, far longer than three-to-five minutes.

    Stede doesn’t mind, obviously. And Ed doesn’t seem to be about to question it. But the snide little Lucius-like voice in the back of his mind points out that almost twenty fucking minutes is maybe a bit of an overkill.

    Stede yanks his hands away from Ed’s hair like it’s covered in bleach.

    “Okey-doke!” Stede manages, voice shrill and a little strangled.

    From across the salon, the real Lucius snorts.

    (OR: Stede's a hair stylist. Ed shows up for an appointment. And shows up. And shows up. And shows up...)

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    20 Nov 2024

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    Between his captainly duties, his period, and the secret admirer leaving him gifts, Stede Bonnet is all set to crawl into bed and not get back up for the rest of the day.
    Izzy derails his plans, offering to do his duty as First Mate.

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    31 Aug 2024

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    Edward Teach was miserable in cruises.

    Then he met Stede Bonnet.

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    31 Aug 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    Izzy took another, larger gulp of wine, and let it set into his stomach before he ventured, “Am I…being seduced?”
    “Would you like to be?”
    “He’s…” Izzy searched for a satisfactory way to define the unit of Edward-and-Stede that had formed in the whirlwind months since the once-and-for-all banishment of the Kraken. Finding all options deeply lacking, Izzy settled on, “Yours.”
    Edward showed his teeth, an easy and sly expression, and leaned very far forward to whisper, “And you’re mine.”
    “Still?”
    “Mm.” Edward pulled away. His eyes, some of that deep sadness creeping into them again, swept briefly down to the horsey-leg. “If you still want.”

    Izzy lets himself succumb to the wiles of Stede Bonnet, and in the process receives a lesson in the art of loving Edward Teach.

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    19 Jul 2024