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How could God trap in such a cold place a man that was meant to thrive under the warmth of the sun?
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03 Jun 2025
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(the more it hurts) the less it shows by lily_winterwood
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
29 May 2025
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Vincent sits in a confessional booth, waiting.
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- Part 1 of the little i have and am
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02 Jun 2025
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During the conclave, Cardinals Lawrence and Benitez find a comfort in each other they did not know they needed.
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15 May 2025
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(…) “I can barely wait to see how the gardens will look in spring, when everything is in bloom. It is already so beautiful, isn’t it, Thomas?”
“It is indeed.” The older man replied, though he found he wasn’t looking at the garden around him, but rather at Vincent’s face. (…)
Or, a few days after the Conclave, cardinal Lawrence meets the Holy Father by the turtle pond and the Holy Spirit talks to him once more.
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14 May 2025
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Thomas is conflicted about his feelings for Vincent until he comes knocking on his door.
I haven't written in a while so this is probably really bad but it was fun to write!!
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13 May 2025
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“Cardinal,” Pope Innocent said without looking up. He was signing something, slowly. “Sit.”
Lawrence sat.
“I need a favor,” the Pope said. He didn’t sound tired, exactly. Just past the threshold of fatigue into some stranger, steadier state.
Lawrence waited.
“There’s a visitor,” the Pope went on. “He believes he’s here for an audience.”
Still, he didn’t look up. Just turned a page, signed again, then closed the folder and laid the pen down with the kind of care that made Lawrence nervous.
“Bellini can’t take the meeting. I won’t.”
A pause.
“You will.”
(In which Lawrence speaks on the Pope’s behalf, and learns that being heard can be its own kind of closeness.)
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13 May 2025
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Come to me, and I will give you rest by WaitingCliffside
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
04 May 2025
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Thomas Lawrence wants to nap (/sleep forever) but accidentally falls in love with his colleague while praying the rosary instead. Regular Monday Night Vatican stuff, y'know.
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- Part 1 of Come to me, and I will give you rest
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12 May 2025
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A Walk in the Sun by WaitingCliffside
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
10 May 2025
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Vincent has a crush. Thomas continues to struggle with his crisis of faith. Someone allow these old fools some time in the garden, please.
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- Part 2 of Come to me, and I will give you rest
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12 May 2025
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When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.
Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.
Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.
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08 May 2025
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The man, dressed humbly in a simple black shirt, wears his hair just long enough to be tied back at the nape of his neck. He’s no young man, perhaps a decade younger than Lawrence himself at most, but his eyes possess a boyish lucidity.
It’s a sombre time; everyone wears a similar gloom in their eyes. But those who grieve with particular anguish recognise one another. It is the grief of mourning a man rather than a symbol.
Perhaps it is not so much recognition, but a quiet attraction—like a moth drawn to a flame.
(Years ago, Vincent Benítez resigned from his post after a surgery in Geneva. A month ago, Thomas Lawrence resigned as Cardinal Dean. Two strangers meet in Vatican City, following the death of the late Pope, grappling with grief, guilt, and sorrow—together.)
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27 Apr 2025
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I heard that you’re a homo, too.
As if scalded by a hot iron, Aldo flinches at the words thrown so casually. It is the late 1970s. Aldo is still a lanky limbed teenager with a full head of hair.
In his blurred vision, he can make out only the dark silhouette of a boy—the boy stands against the searing sunlight of an early summer day, looking down at him with a head cocked to the side.
This is a story about memory.
(1970s, New York. Aldo comes of age amidst the confusing frenzy of sexuality, friendship, and religious ecstasy. Before God saves Aldo Bellini, a boy does it first.)
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27 Apr 2025
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It's Not Easy, Being in Love by mothercetrion
Fandoms: Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types
28 May 2020
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Fujin is grateful that he found the courage to ask Nightwolf out. His long life has never been filled with so much happiness.
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22 Aug 2022
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Family by mothercetrion
Fandoms: Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types
31 May 2020
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Nightwolf finds an abandoned puppy in the yard of their home. He’s never mentioned getting a dog to Fujin, but… keeping the little girl can’t hurt, right?
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22 Aug 2022
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First Meetings by mothercetrion
Fandoms: Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types
23 Jun 2020
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Fujin meets Nightwolf’s spirit animals for the first time. Turns out that bears are just as scary as he imagined them to be.
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21 Aug 2022
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Secrets Kept by mothercetrion
Fandoms: Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types
04 Jun 2020
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Shang Tsung is no fool. He knows a crush when he sees one.
In which Shang Tsung teases Nightwolf about his obvious (to him, at least) crush on Fujin. Nightwolf now has an additional reason to hate him.
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- Part 1 of Crush Chronicles
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20 Aug 2022
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Mutual Crushes by mothercetrion
Fandoms: Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types
30 Jun 2020
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Shang Tsung knows when a crush is reciprocated.
In which Shang Tsung teases Fujin about his obvious (to him, at least) crush on Nightwolf. Fujin isn’t too fond of being called out.
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- Part 2 of Crush Chronicles
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20 Aug 2022
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Jesse manages to draw some warm blood from Mike's granite.
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07 May 2022
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adhd jesse . autistic mike . my fav genre of men .
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Gus Fring died, but that was no tragedy, for he was never truly alive.
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07 May 2022
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In his dreams, Jesse kills Gale over and over again.
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07 May 2022
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Jesse and Mike's usual road trips take a turn when Mike has to babysit his granddaughter.
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07 May 2022