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He is prepared.
The fields are full of men, not one of them familiar. He can’t be bothered asking where they’re taking him. To the barracks, perhaps, or maybe they expect him to start working right away. He’s a slave now, after all, no matter how kindly Silver thinks these men will treat him. Once it might have bothered him - to die as someone’s property. It would have bothered Madi. Or Vane. Or even Rackham. But he is not them. And he is not James McGraw, the man that Thomas Hamilton once loved. He is Flint, he is a monster, the devil of the sea and he is staring…staring at a man with golden hair…
There are some things the heart cannot prepare for.
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- Part 2 of In A Better World Than This
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when you go forth over land or sea by explosiontimothy for daylighthour
Fandoms: Black Sails
01 Apr 2022
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short flinthamilton vignettes
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James McGraw learns how to not act in this way, in this queer way, because it is what one does.
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aka "james mcgraw is autistic and that's the that on the that: the fic"
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James McGraw has learned not to act in this queer way, but Thomas Hamilton insists that he unlearn many things. Perhaps he can unlearn this too.
AKA fanfic for the amazing "i might believe a good deal of it too".
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Major Hamilton introduces himself as Thomas.
He has on a clean pressed uniform, his hair is swept back with pomade, and when he holds out his hand in greeting, James knows on sight that he has never seen a day in battle.
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And then: a carriage to the docks before the red morning sky had faded to pale blue. The ship: James stood at the rail, watched the sailors clamber through the rigging and offered no comment. Every once in a while, he’d glance at the shore. Then at the horizon. When the captain approached, he angled himself between the bookish little man and Thomas and Miranda, and Miranda stared at the line of his body beneath the dark, wide-skirted coat, and didn’t think of him laid out on the Hamilton bed, bright-eyed and bared wholly to them.
(Or: Thomas is seasick, James is just sick, and Miranda is trying to figure out what she wants.)
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- Part 2 of as it was
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When James follows the Admiral into his study, when Hennessey turns back to him and steps aside to reveal Alfred Hamilton sitting in the room’s best chair, eyes narrowed like an old eagle’s, when the grinding clockwork of the world as James thought he knew it seems to shudder to a halt around him –
James can think, for a moment, of nothing but the last time he saw the earl of Ashbourne, and what happened after. How very carefully Thomas had approached him. The warmth of his hands.
(Or: Alfred Hamilton offers James McGraw a deal in exchange for Thomas and Miranda's safety. Then they have to live with it.)
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- Part 1 of as it was
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Chapter 1: James becomes jealous when an old school friend of Thomas' comes to dinner. Lots of angst and pining from both these idiots.
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Jack, accompanied by Anne and Max, visits the plantation in Savannah in order to reassure their investor concerning the matter of Flint's disappearance. But instead of encountering the prison he was expecting, Jack ends up finding much more than he'd bargained for.
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James' first night at the plantation, Thomas asks about Miranda. It takes months for James to tell him everything.
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After James is taken to Oglethorpe’s, he is reunited with Thomas Hamilton, and to his surprise, Abigail Ashe. They hatch a plan to take over the plantation.
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- Part 2 of I Design Disasters
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Admiral Hennessey should very probably check his luggage a bit more carefully before heading home for the holidays. Fortunately for Thomas, he does not.
In which Thomas Hamilton is sent to sea instead of staying at home and acquires a new family in his own inimitable fashion.
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- Part 1 of To Drive the Cold Winter Away
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Thomas had always loved the sound of snow falling off of something. He loved the gentle silence of it. He loved the sound it made when it landed on more of itself, but most of all -
Most of all he loved the sound it made when it hit the back of Admiral Hennessey's unprotected neck.
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- Part 2 of To Drive the Cold Winter Away
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"He doesn’t have this problem a lot. He can go weeks at a time without a flare up. If he’s in the car with Bill while they’re on the road, he rolls the window down, and he’s fine. But it’s different during the winter."
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11 Mar 2020
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“I didn’t see it coming, Holden. You could’ve been killed, and I didn’t see it coming…"
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11 Mar 2020
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“Shouldn’t a literate man such as yourself know a little more of what happens because of the hubris of men, my Lord?”
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"So, he changes the way he approaches these interviews. His confidence has taken blow after blow the last year and a half, and it’s almost like the fight in him dissipated. He leaves the shop talk, the bullshitting, the ignorance, the directing to Bill; Holden prefers to take notes now instead. He stays mostly silent. No one seems to like it much when he talks anyway."
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09 Oct 2019
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An exploration of Holden's panic disorder throughout season two.
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08 Sep 2019
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“You know,” Thomas eventually says, frowning thoughtfully as he pulls back. “You will be gone for a long time, perhaps I ought to give you something to remember me by. We wouldn't want you to forget me, now, would we?”
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- Part 3 of Pre-canon Flinthamilton
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The first time that James actually opens up about the time they spent apart, it's after a fight.
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- Part 2 of We could build a house