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A collection of sweet and/or sexy GentleBeard stories. Personal favourites, both canon and AU. As long as there's a happy ending for our favourite captains.
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Unknown Sailor by MarriedState (passingfair), MerryFinches
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 Jul 2024
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New(ish)ly divorced Stede Bonnet becomes obsessed with a mysterious bust in a local museum's piracy exhibit. Exhibit curator Ed Teach becomes obsessed with 'The Bust Guy' who comes in to see it almost every day. Together they just might solve the mystery of the bust's origin and discover a few things about themselves along the way.
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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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“I could help you, you know,” says Ed. “Like, the reinventing yourself bit. Or figuring it out.”
Hope hops on its feet, attempting takeoff. “You would?”
“‘Course I would, mate. You’re my best friend.”
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Recently divorced, Stede isn't sure where to start on the whole "getting himself out there" thing. Ed offers to help, so they write out a list of Stede’s goals. The only problem? They both may be just slightly in love with each other. They just don't know it yet.
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Ed can hear birdsong. Birdsong signalling that something in the ecosystem has shifted, dramatically. In a way that was impossible to notice when you’re immersed in it. And it hits him all at once, the realisation that the last ten years are coming to an end, that his period of bare bones survival is going to start shifting into something more active, something faster, something with significantly more intent behind it. After all, nobody tells you when the aftermath becomes just…after. Nobody can tell you when you’re going to feel safe enough to start living again.
or: Ten years after the world ended, Ed's running out of reasons to stay alive. Until one turns up on his literal doorstep, forcing him to reevaluate his definition of hope.
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Blackbeard is untouchable.
Not impervious to harm, nah he’s got the scars to prove that. He’s been stabbed and cut and burned and whipped and hit, less so these days, but it happens.
No, what it is, is that no one wants to touch Blackbeard.