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i made loving you a blood sport
i can’t win
so let’s play***
He’d wanted to marry Astarion. Truly. Desperately. If Astarion had asked in that first or second year, Gale would have said yes with no hesitation, even having seen some of the warning signs. He’d had an entire life envisioned for them. He’d thought of their wedding, celebrating with their friends and families. He had planned to hyphenate his name. He’d had plans, gods, he’d spent the last three, almost four years with this man dreaming of building a life with him. As much as Gale hates to admit to himself, he’d happily throw himself on a pyre for Astarion if he even took a few minute steps in the right direction. He would stay and he would love and he would adore. He’d already lost and sacrificed so much in an effort to make Astarion happy, to make him feel loved, to feel seen. To try to protect him from the monsters around him, and even more, the ones within himself.
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While the team regroups in the Moonrise Towers throne room after the fight in the Mindflayer Colony, Astarion notices Gale acting strangely across the room and goes to investigate. Shenanigans (and feelings) ensue.
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As he regains his composure, Astarion nods and places a gentle, open-mouthed kiss on Gale’s throat, grinning wildly when he feels it bob beneath his lips. “Yes, my love. I think I’m more sure about this than I’ve been about almost anything else.” He tilts his hips forward to meet Gale’s hovering hand and they both gasp at the contact. “Please, Gale,” Astarion whines, “Please touch me.”
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- Part 2 of lend me a hand
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"I wanted to be there for you. When you saw her again," Astarion admits, swallowing hard on the tender bit of emotion he still finds there. He's not sure how to say this, how to thread the line of admitting his own protective feelings without causing more pain for Gale. There are things he'd worked out, from the stories Gale had told, the timing of events, the age he must have been when it all began. That's too heavy for this early evening and something Gale should bring up himself if they ever discuss it.
So, Astarion finds another bit of the reason and says instead, "You were there for me when I claimed my freedom, and I wanted... I wanted to help you claim yours."
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- Part 2 of Home
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After watching Gale work his magic during a fight with the shambling mound, Astarion has to come to terms with just how much he wants the wizard. Gale has an idea for them.
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Tears prick at the corners of his eyes, but Astarion turns back to look at Gale – at this perfect, beautiful man before him. “I want more than I want, Gale. And I don’t know what to do with that.”
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"We haven't spoken since that day you left, but you... you thought of me?"
Astarion hesitates, hope a fragile thing, doubly so for his double desires. "All this time?"
Gale chuckles at that - if he only knew the days and nights he ticked away thinking of him, worrying for his safety. Truthfully, he thought often of their entire party. He worried about Karlach and Wyll in Avernus, of Lae'zel in the astral plane, of Shadowheart and her parents - but no single member of their party occupied his thoughts like Astarion. In ways he never considered, Astarion took up residence in his mind, in his heart. Gale smiled softly, running his fingers through his greying hair. "Of course.”
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Having gone their separate ways after the fall of The Absolute, Gale and Astarion meet once more at the reunion party and discover they’d both been rather foolish.
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How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
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10 Apr 2016
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
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Crimes Against Respectability by caffeinated_nightmares
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Nov 2024
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In the beginning, it had all started as a crude joke. But after the fall of the Elder Brain, their joke became an Annual Reunion Tradition to commemorate the Heroes of Baldur's Gate. Leave it to Shadowheart to be an outright menace to Gale and Astarion with such an atrocious artifact.
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01 Nov 2024
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How You Need To Be Loved by dancinbutterfly for eatingcroutons
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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"Lift your head and look at me, Astarion. I need to see your eyes."
Astarion lifts his head and finds Halsin on the ground in front of him, tears on his broad face.
"Is this what you want? For me to hurt you? Like he did? Tell me the truth."
Astarion wishes he had compulsion. That made telling the truth so much easier.
"No, I hate it." He says, shakily because he doesn't want Halsin to cry over him and the truth is he hates this. He hates it with every fiber of his being.
But there's something more important than want. Astarion already hated Cazador but he will curse him to the Hells for eternity for this truth Cazador bred in him.
"But gods help me..." Astarion sobs because they haven't. They would never ever help Astarion Ancunín. "I need it."
Over the centuries of unrelenting abuse, Cazador changed something in Astarion, irrevocably. But Astarion will not allow any part of himself to belong to Cazador. Not even the parts Cazador created. Not anymore.
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28 Oct 2024
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Gale says the word ‘love’ a dozen times a day. But never to Astarion. It’s starting to bother him. He decides to try coax a confession the only way he knows how: through a heated moment of passion.
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Ambrosia (or: How Gale Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) by mercurial_cool
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2024
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“Why does your blood smell so strange?”
The question startled Gale, who looked up from where he sat cross-legged in front of his tent, organizing his scrolls in preparation for their upcoming “visit” to the goblin camp. He’d given Astarion a wide berth since the revelation of his vampiric condition a few days earlier, so he was surprised to see the pale elf looming over him now, a peculiar expression on his face.
“You know,” Gale offered with a smile, “in my extensive journeys across manifold realms, I do believe that is not a question that I’ve ever been asked before. I honestly can’t decide whether or not I should be offended.”
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Of the many side effects Gale has faced as a result of his whole “being physical host to an imminently destructive magical orb” problem, he somehow never anticipated his blood now apparently smelling irresistible to vampires (or at least, one particular vampire) to be one of them.
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