The Aral Files
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The Ransom of Aral Vorkosigan by Andelise
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
17 May 2026
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Aral had scripted this conversation meticulously in his head, laying out his arguments point-by-point. It wasn’t for the purpose of convincing Ges—he knew better, by now, than to think that Ges Vorrutyer could be cajoled into anything—but for his own benefit, to form an unassailable wall against the charm Ges wielded with pinpoint precision. Like a nerve disruptor, he’d thought more than once, and just as lethal.
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How do you leave a man like Ges Vorrutyer?
Not without paying a price.
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- Part 1 of The Aral Files
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something in your hand to break by Andelise
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
14 Jun 2026
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He’s eighteen and meets Aral Vorkosigan at the Academy, in an otherwise criminally dull Introduction to Strategic Warfare class...
Ges resents him instantly. Ges wants him instantly.
Then he sees a slight smile crack that stony façade, a sly expression of satisfaction, and his heart skips. Oh, he thinks, picturing the next few years unfolding before him, that smile reappearing at intervals like a signal flare. So that’s how it’s going to be from now on.***
scenes from a collapse in slow motion.
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- Part 2 of The Aral Files
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“What you need is to rest.”
He was keenly aware of her warmth upon him, her thighs pressed against his, the herbal scent of her hair. Between his duties calling him away so often and Miles, it had been—God, far too long...
“My dear,” he said hoarsely, “if I end up in a bed with you right now, resting is the last thing we’ll be doing.”
Her smile was positively vulpine. “Ah, well,” she said. “That’s all right, too.”***
Worn out by the demands of the Regency, Aral's in dire need of some stress relief, and Cordelia has a few ideas...ones that might also fulfill long-suppressed longings and finally heal old wounds.
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- Part 3 of The Aral Files
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It was what Aral wanted, and so it was what he would have, but she’d need to be careful. If she judged wrong, pushed him too far, it might damage those associations in his memory past repair. It reminded her of her old days in the Survey: the risk of the jump, trusting in your calculations to bring you through to the other side and your judgment to deal with whatever you found where you landed. For this venture, she was his coordinates; she could not let him down.
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As Aral and Cordelia delve further into kink explorations, he makes a request to help banish the ghosts of the past, and she's happy to oblige.
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- Part 4 of The Aral Files
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This building, Aral decided, had too many damned stairs. He leaned on the railing with one hand as he wobbled up them, one after the other; they seemed to stretch into infinity, an endless march of marble steps covered in a red carpet runner. They kept sliding, too, lurching disconcertingly under his feet, though he knew that was probably just the effect of the—five? six? he'd lost count—shots of bourbon still swimming through his system. You’re drunk, he told himself firmly, though he didn’t need the reminder; that was why he was here. That was why he was thinking about this at all.
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Three weeks after his wife's funeral, Aral pays Ges a late-night visit.
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- Part 5 of The Aral Files