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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Janusz keeps pacing in front of Vincent's door late at night as he grapples with his grief for the late Holy Father. An unlikely friendship-turned-romance ensues.

    Or: Janusz needs help, and Vincent refuses to give up on him.

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    18 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    It’s all about you and the lust of your flesh and the lure of your mind.

    Or the AU where Thomas gets in a few (lot of) problems because he falls in love with Vincent, who is 30 years younger than him and his student. Vincent it’s more than happy with all of this.

    Or Thomas is on a night out with Ray, Goffredo and Aldo celebrating Bellitesco’s engagement and they meet Vincent and everything that happens after that.

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    09 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    Thomas Lawrence is twenty when - in his loneliness, and his misery, and his terrible desire to be touched - he begins to dream that someone loves him.

    The conclave is over, but the dreams have returned.

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    28 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    A month after the Conclave, Vincent Benítez, now Pope Innocent XIV, gets stuck in an elevator. It's not the kind of event that should have the potential to derail his entire pontificate, but it has. When the demons from his past come bursting into the Apostolic Palace and shake up a lot of well-established routines and certainties, it falls to a very unlikely alliance of friends, both old and new, to mount the defence and drive them back out. In the process, Thomas Lawrence learns things about their new Pope that he would not have imagined in his wildest dreams, and he finally finds the courage to be more to him than just another faithful servant.

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    26 Sep 2025

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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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    23 Sep 2025