Strays
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Things you should have by the age of thirty (according to the meme Tozer posted in the group chat):
- a dog
- anxiety
- a dog with anxietyBy that metric, Ed Little is crushing it. By every other, he very much isn't.
[Modern AU in which Ed has a rescue dog and meets a handsome PA at the park.]
[Ch24: in which Frank tries to be a dad, to varying degrees of success, and Tom might be a real person after all.]
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- Part 1 of Strays
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"That," James spits out the word contemptuously, "is not remotely how it happened."
"I think you'll find it bloody was."
"Has the wet brain finally kicked in after all these years, darling?" The arch of Fitzjames's eyebrow is both pointed and infuriating, and his husband's glower sets in deeper when he sees it. "Or is it just dementia?"
"You walked into me." Crozier raises his voice slightly in order to hammer home his point. "On purpose."
"Yes, Francis. I approached you with the express intention of ruining my favourite cravat and gaining the most frightfully boring husband in history."
"I'm sorry I asked," Ed mutters, almost inaudibly, and Tom barely holds back a snort of laughter.
[James and Francis' first meeting, from two perspectives. Or: Francis hates people and things, James has the internal monologue of a gothic heroine, and Ed is very concerned about what he's marrying into.]
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- Part 2 of Strays
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"What's your name, again?" He can hear the rasp in his own voice when he pulls back a bit. "Your first name, I mean. I'm not calling you Irving while we fuck."
The penny takes a second to drop. Not quick on the uptake, these posh lads.
"Oh, right. J-John. I'm John." It suits him. Sol could do without the dithering slowing everything down, but he has to admit that the stuttering is sort of cute, in a 'lamb to the slaughter' kind of way. It turns his smile wolfish at the corners.
"Great," he reverses their positions before Irving can react, resting his own back against the door and grinning up at his shocked partner with what he knows is a wicked look in his eye. "G'wed and suck me off then, John."
[Ch11: in which Sol explains a bit of how he became Sol.]
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- Part 3 of Strays
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Collected ficlets in the Free to a Good Home verse - mostly fluff, some angst, plenty of humour along the way.
(no spoilers, it's stuff that may or may not make it into the main stories)
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- Part 4 of Strays
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"What do you need a support chat for?" Ed looks rather put out when he realises Sol's serious, and John seems equally bewildered by the idea that their boyfriends might talk about them behind their backs sometimes. Or, more specifically, vent about them being posh. "It's not like we're a different species."
Sol and Tom exchange a look which says an awful lot without words, and Ed and John remain utterly clueless (in so many different ways).
[an overview of Tom and Sol's group chat, in which they discuss the fact they don't remotely understand their partners' posh boy behaviours.]
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- Part 5 of Strays
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Five shitty Christmases the boys had, and one they all enjoyed together.
[happy holidays folks]
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- Part 6 of Strays