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The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’
Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.
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20 Oct 2025
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Aldo has never really been one to think much about penance.
“We honor God in a multitude of ways,” he’d told Thomas once. “I agree that discomfort is useful. We learn to turn away from our sins and commit to do better. I don't understand what mutilating yourself in His name is meant to accomplish. We were not put in this world to suffer, Thomas."
Thomas had been quiet for a long time. "It is a different thing, though," he'd said finally. "You will agree on that much at least. Self-harm is a sin. Self-flagellation has a place in doctrine."
Aldo had winced. "Next thing you'll tell me is you've joined Opus Dei. You don’t think confession is enough? Prayer?”
“I think mortification of the flesh has its place,” he’d said absently, eyes faraway.
“Does it serve a purpose, though, apart from hurting you? Does senseless pain really bring you any closer to Him?”
Thomas had barely flinched. Aldo had felt possessed by the urge to grab his jaw and direct him forward, look at me, look!
“We must repent, Aldo,” he’d said simply. "By whatever means necessary."
He’s always thought Thomas did enough repentance as it was for the two of them. He thinks he understands better now.
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16 Sep 2025
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dean used to turn tricks. over a decade later, he met cas.
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12 Sep 2025
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An after-dinner discussion of clerical celibacy with the Holy Father convinces Thomas that they have, in the spirit of the law, already broken their vows and might as well try a little more.
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- Part 3 of Disrobe Without Being Ashamed
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26 Aug 2025
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What they don’t tell you about getting older is that everything changes. Not just your body—though that too, of course. The creak of your knees, the low burn in your back, the way your muscles seem to protest even the simplest of tasks. He had braced for those changes.
Expected them, even. He had been told to anticipate the fading of his vision, the dimming of the world at its edges. He had prepared himself for the dulling of his hearing, for the tremor that would someday find its way into his hands, for the occasional misstep or the stumble that came without warning.
But no one told him that the world would change, too.
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22 Aug 2025
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When Vincent meets Thomas, he sees an anxious man in dire need of care. In Vincent Benítez, Thomas sees an answered prayer. During a protracted conclave, they converge somewhere in the middle.
Therein lies the struggle--and the romance.
(Or, if Thomas Lawrence wants to be had, he'll have to beg to be taken. Vincent will wait.)
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14 Aug 2025
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It’s September 18, 2008. Castiel is being deployed to rescue Dean Winchester from Hell.
He lands in Dean Winchester’s motel room in 2003. Things go from there.
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13 Aug 2025
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Vincent grows stubble in the midst of difficult work and Thomas wants him to use it to hurt him. Vincent has other, sexier ideas.
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09 Aug 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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07 Aug 2025
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Giulio is suspicious of the new Holy Father, until -
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28 Jul 2025
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“Do you know some people say you are as John the Baptist to him? Make straight the way of the Lord.”
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26 Jul 2025
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On his phone were the old articles Sabbadin had sent him, naming him a “favorite candidate” and “frontrunning papabile.” Aldo could not deny the mingled pleasure and anxiety the articles had brought him in the days before the conclave. Now he saw how ridiculous he had been, to enjoy the tawdry feeling of popularity, simply because he had never felt popular before in his life.
There had been such confidence in him. He knew he was unworthy of it at the time. He had not known how much.
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Aldo struggles after the conclave. Vincent is there.
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20 Jul 2025
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“You would not believe the day I’ve had, Dean Lawrence.”
The air between them electrifies.
Dean Lawrence swallows thickly, a pit of heat already starting to settle in his stomach.
“Holy Father — is there any way I can help you?”
Pope Innocent shifts, groaning under his breath, not lifting his possessive hand from the Dean’s.
“Kneel.”
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- Part 1 of let me put my lips to something
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16 Jul 2025
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The pontiff looked at the cardinal beside him. His gaze held all the solemnity of a man turned infallible vessel and all the wistfulness of a lonely child. “You are my closest friend, Thomas. Would you please take my confession?”
“Of course, should you have sin to confess.”
In the first year of Pope Innocent XIV's papacy, Thomas Lawrence and Vincent Benitez struggle to negotiate duty and desire.
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09 Jul 2025
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Thomas Cardinal Lawrence has prayed for a new Pope who doubts, a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and carries on. Instead, he gets a gentle, otherworldly saint who is far above the troubles and failings of ordinary men. Or is he?
The first twenty-four hours of Innocent XIV's pontificate turn out to be the best of Thomas's life, and the worst, and then the best again, and then the worst again… Because sometimes the Holy Spirit sends you certainty, and sometimes he sends you a rollercoaster.
As the wolves snarl and maul, the sheep quail and the sheepdogs scramble to retain control, Thomas learns that still waters run deep, and that friend and foe alike will underestimate this new shepherd of theirs at their peril.
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09 Jul 2025
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spare the rod, spoil the cardinal by Anonymous for mintakathree
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
06 Jul 2025
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When Thomas feels the need to atone, there is one place and one person he always comes to.
or: the one where Thomas Lawrence, Dean of the College of Cardinals, gets vigorously and enthusiastically flogged over a prayer kneeler by His Holiness, Pope Innocent XIV.
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06 Jul 2025
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De profundis by coulometric_titration
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
18 Jul 2025
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Thomas is interrupted from his work - the first somewhat free Saturday since the Conclave and even if he's done a lot, there's still work to be caught up on. Then the pope calls and Thomas goes to him as he always does, leaving plans for seating arrangements and a lonely evening behind.
The Papal Apartement contains one (1) emotional pope and a cardboard box it does not usually contain... that sets off a series of events - some unexpected, some expected, some good, some bad.Bookmarked by s_521
30 Jun 2025
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"What will they think, when they read a hasty letter with a clumsy signature, citing health issues and a desire for peaceful reflection? He hopes they understand and perhaps one day he will explain, if God in His infinite mercy sees it fit to grant him the necessary wisdom. But not now, and not here. If he doesn't leave, Aldo fears he'll end up scaling into the rafters and screaming until his throat is raw."
Aldo Bellini, ever pragmatic, wakes one day to find that he has been given stigmata. Naturally, he handles it well.
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21 Jun 2025
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“It seemed cruel,” Thomas says, “for you to have not seen Rome properly. And so you shall.”
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Thomas and Vincent sneak out of the Vatican to spend an anonymous day in Rome.
(Also, Vincent doesn't want Thomas to resign. Thomas doesn't want to go.)
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05 Jun 2025
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Pope Innocent is becoming rather infamous in his affection for his flock.
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30 May 2025