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“You’d like him, you know,” Thomas said.
“I do like him,” Aldo said automatically, twirling the stem of his wine glass, looking into its deep red like it was a scrying mirror.
“I mean as a friend. If you spent more time with him. You have a lot in common.”
“Do we use the same shampoo?” asked Aldo, raising an eyebrow. Thomas gave him a warning look but his mouth was tugging up.
“You’re both stubborn,” he said bluntly.
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Cardinals like Thomas Lawrence and Aldo Bellini know all too well how slowly things move within the walls of the Vatican. But with Vincent Benítez's election cracking their world open, and the new Pope cutting away the old branches to make room for the new, both find that change is flooding in everywhere, mostly within themselves.
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10 Jun 2025
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Aldo Bellini is often an irritable and self-conscious man. Through all the raised hackles and sharp claws, Vincent Benìtez sees, and brings out the best in him.
Or: Four times Aldo Bellini is compared to a cat, and the one time he doesn't mind.
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08 Jun 2025
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Finally, they arrive at the homily. Benítez is much briefer than his predecessor. And yet, his speech feels fuller, somehow. He pins them all under the darkness of his gaze. When his eyes land on Aldo, he feels as if Benítez has stripped him bare, that he can see the horrible, green monster that writhes beneath his breast. He speaks of love and light, a desire to move them forward into the future while paying homage to the past. Aldo feels trapped in that damned vote, watching the world crumble under his feet.
The morning after Vincent Benítez is elected Pope Innocent XIV, Aldo Bellini attends morning mass. He tries to grapple with the scale of everything he's lost to Benítez: his role as Secretary of State, the Papacy, and Thomas Lawrence.
Or, the one where Aldo is still sore about the conclave, and he has to navigate his new place in the Curia while trying to sort out his feelings for Thomas and Vincent. They all have feelings about this, separately, and then together.
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- Part 1 of Salva Me
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12 May 2025
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The mysterious case of the Tomczyk Twins by Red_Disa
Fandoms: The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune
18 Aug 2021
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Linus and Arthur don their detective hats and investigate the mysterious disappearance of a pair of troublesome psychokinetic orphans.
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12 Aug 2023
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Percy watches her, softly, impossibly fond. Doesn’t he know of all the little ways she betrayed him?
“Of course,” he says. “I will always be here for you, Ginny, as long as you live.”
.After the war, Ginny Weasley rebuilds her relationship with her estranged brother, Percy. It is an upwards battle, but the unconditional love she gets and gives in return is priceless.
Alternatively: Ginny grows close with Percy as they stumble through their trauma, together and apart.
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04 Mar 2023