Unholy Ceremonies
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“My eh. My father died.” The words had tumbled out of his mouth before he’d thought about them twice. The vicar needn’t know that. He didn’t want to, Alec assumed.
Instead of rejecting him, however, Paul’s eyes softened. “I’m sorry for your loss.”
He shrugged. “Haven’t talked to him in thirty years.” It sat heavy in his chest, somehow. He’d never had any regrets about it before. His father had been an asshole even when his mum had been alive. It had only got worse since her death.
Yet now that he no longer could, he still wished he could have seen the man one last time. To show him what he had become. To tell him that he’d been wrong.
“Doesn’t make it any easier.”
“No.” Alec conceded. “Suppose it doesn’t.”---
OR: Alec's father died and he is left to deal with the mess and emotion it leaves behind, with the help of a certain vicar.
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- Part 1 of Unholy Ceremonies
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“God loves you, Alec.” Paul pressed down on his head with his hand, as though he was trying to make the blessing stronger.
He held his hand steady as more blood dripped off his fingers into the cup that stood under it. “How-How do you know He loves me?” he whispered, voice cracked and full of tears.
Paul didn’t pause whispering praise. It almost hurt to hear the words ring in his ears, the words that told him something so different from what he believed himself to be. From what the church had told him he was. Alec let out a wrangled sob when the vicar increased the pressure he was applying to his arm again, so more blood still would come out.
“God loves everyone. God forgives you for your sins. You’re giving your blood for His forgiveness.” He told Alec, before continuing the praise. He didn’t hear the exact words, his mind was blocking them out, it hurt too much.
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OR: Alec and Paul have been lovers for two months and they're both sick of hiding. But telling people isn't a viable option either, according to Alec.
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- Part 2 of Unholy Ceremonies
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His carefully guarded secret, that he had put in so much effort to keep hidden had been exposed by some arsehole journalist who didn’t have anything better to do with their time but go and dig around in his own personal life.
Why could they do that? What gave them the right to do this? What the hell had he done to deserve that? Alec knew the answer to that. The flashes of memories that were shared only between him Paul and God seemed reason enough. But why now? Why like this?---
OR: Alec's secret gets exposed
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- Part 3 of Unholy Ceremonies