What Grows In The Dark
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Rosinante is very good at keeping secrets.
He’s less good at hiding a pregnancy from someone like Doflamingo.Series
- Part 1 of What Grows In The Dark
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"Are you sleeping with someone else?" Rosinante asked.
Doflamingo looked at him. Something crossed his face. Not quite amusement. Not quite offense.
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- Part 2 of What Grows In The Dark
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The way Doflamingo looked at him was different too.
Rosinante was thirty-five weeks pregnant and could barely get off the bed, but Doflamingo looked at him like he was something worth looking at.
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- Part 3 of What Grows In The Dark
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Rosinante swallowed.
He knew that ship. There was only one person in the world who would come to Dressrosa at dawn without asking.
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- Part 4 of What Grows In The Dark
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"You knew better," Doflamingo whispered. "Of all the people in the world, Rosinante. You knew exactly what I was.”
“You knew what I was capable of. And you chose to betray me anyway."Series
- Part 5 of What Grows In The Dark
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It would be so easy.
Just walk back down that corridor. Put the barrel to Rosinante’s head. Pull the trigger.
End the Marine Commander. End the traitor.
End the illusion of a relationship he almost believed was real.
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- Part 6 of What Grows In The Dark
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Do you still love me?
He knew better than to ask.
Doflamingo wouldn't answer. He'd either do something or stop doing something, and Rosinante couldn't handle either.
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- Part 7 of What Grows In The Dark
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The touches stopped being accidental.
Then they became harder to explain.
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- Part 8 of What Grows In The Dark
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The bed, he thought. It was the bed. This bed was simply more comfortable than his.
Different construction, different materials, something in the mattress. That was the obvious and logical explanation and he was going to pursue it.
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- Part 9 of What Grows In The Dark
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"Please—" Rosinante begged when Doflamingo eventually pulled him off.
He didn't even know what he was begging for.
Didn't know if he wanted Doflamingo to finish so his knees would stop hurting and his lips would stop bleeding.
Didn't know if he wanted Doflamingo to let him touch himself, because some large, shameful part of him wanted to keep rutting against Doflamingo's leg like some animal.
Didn’t know if he wanted Doflamingo to keep using his mouth until he couldn’t breathe and blacked out.
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- Part 10 of What Grows In The Dark
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The cum started to leak. Rosinante felt it trickle out of him and his stomach turned.
He had been full of Doflamingo. Now he was full of what he'd left behind. And still the emptiness in his chest remained.
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- Part 11 of What Grows In The Dark
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Rosinante kept going back over all of it. Every look. Every time Doflamingo held him. Trying to figure out which parts were real.
The terrible thing was that he couldn't tell. He couldn't tell the difference between when Doflamingo loved him and when he didn't.
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- Part 12 of What Grows In The Dark
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"The frog is dead, princess." Doflamingo was still laughing. "The frog will never trouble you again."
Rosalia let out a frustrated wail and looked past him, found Rosinante, and reached with both hands.
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- Part 13 of What Grows In The Dark
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Doflamingo’s grip tightened on the paper, the edges crumpling.
“Why are you doing this?”
“I chose you,” Rosinante said, resting a hand on his arm. “This is my family too.”
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- Part 14 of What Grows In The Dark
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"You heard your daughter?” Rosinante asked, pressing the receiver back to his ear. "She’s complaining about how much she misses her father."
"Is that so?" Doflamingo let out a soft chuckle. "Tell her she's not the only one."
His voice dropped an octave before he spoke again.
"I miss her father too."
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- Part 15 of What Grows In The Dark
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He should rehearse it.
Should figure out what to say. How to say it.
Should prepare himself for the way Doflamingo's voice would sound when he asked what happened.
Should prepare an answer for when Doflamingo asked why he didn't tell him.
Why he hid it from him.
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- Part 16 of What Grows In The Dark
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Doflamingo didn’t even know who he was apologising to.
He didn't know if he was saying them to the daughter in his arms, whose milestones he always seemed to miss.
To the unborn child he had failed to protect.
Or to the brother who was so hurt he couldn’t even stand to be in the same room as him.
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- Part 17 of What Grows In The Dark
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"Tell me I killed our child!" Doflamingo’s voice cracked. “Say it!”
Finally, Rosinante’s focus shifted. His gaze locked onto Doflamingo’s and his brows creased slightly.
"Why would I say that? I was the one who stole the deal from Laffitte." he whispered, eyes turning glassy again. "I brought him here. That's why our child is dead."
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- Part 18 of What Grows In The Dark
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A small part of him hated Doflamingo. For leaving him alone and pregnant when he could have chosen to come home earlier.
A large part of him wanted Doflamingo to hold him and tell him everything would be fine.
Yet the moment Doflamingo took a step closer, he wanted to run.
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- Part 19 of What Grows In The Dark
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Rosinante hated that Doflamingo was grieving alone, carrying the pain by himself because Rosinante had made himself impossible to grieve with.
Hated that he'd built the distance between them with his own two hands, and yet did nothing to repair it when Doflamingo was trying his best.
His brother had swallowed his pride and confessed everything to someone he considered an enemy.
All because he was desperate to stay by Rosinante's side.
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- Part 20 of What Grows In The Dark