How it could be
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How Laurent got his heart broken for the first time, but Auguste was actually quite happy about it by kuddelmuddel (kuddelmuddel2137)
Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
13 Jan 2026
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Urged by his mother, Auguste forms an alliance with Vask to avoid a war with Akielos and invites Prince Damianos to make their countries friends. What he doesn't expect is the fact that this Akielon Prince catches Laurent's attention, his thirteen-year-old brother with a mind that is too conniving for his age.
So, when Auguste hears that Laurent and Damen are nowhere to be found in his own palace, he decides it's time to either use his diplomacy skills or murder the Prince of Akielos.
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- Part 1 of How it could be
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At twenty, Laurent is beautiful, charming as ever, and ready to attend to his duties as the Prince of Vere. If his idea of meeting Damen alone in Delfeur isn't entirely decent, no one needs to know it, especially Auguste.
Damen, still shaken by the loss of his father and his brother's failed coup, rides to meet Laurent in Delfeur, unaware that his best friend's little brother has become everything he likes.
A second part to "How Laurent got his heart broken for the first time, but Auguste was actually quite happy about it", set six years later.
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- Part 2 of How it could be
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Faced with the very possibility of his little brother falling in love with the King of Akielos, Auguste feels fear most of all. How could he explain to anyone that Damen’s arms were safe, but not the arms of the King of Akielos?
At twenty-one, Laurent is sweet and bookish, and already so in love with Damen, but he’s the Prince of Vere. He doesn’t belong only to himself, and he’d never betray his beloved brother, even if it means he has to stifle his own desires.
Laurent and Damen let their tentative love bloom, but Auguste looms over them, too far gone in his fear and worry.
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- Part 3 of How it could be