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  1. Summary

    Welcome to the condomless in the creek collaborative series. Each work is an alternate take on a time that David and Patrick discuss their condom usage, or lack thereof. They do not exist in the same timeline and are not necessarily consistent with each other.

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    The Sherwood, the motel that Johnny and Roland purchased, happens to be the same motel that David and Patrick used to "connect" before Patrick got his own place:

    "Is it a little weird that - "
    "It's a little weird that your dad bought our sex motel."

    This is what happened there.

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    A post Journey's End series that assumes that things ended...somewhat differently.

     

    Can he, literally, live with himself?

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    Ed watches. Feels the warmth of Stede’s touch and the warmth of the rum, feels the featherlight pass of Stede’s thumb over his pulse.

    “Of course,” Stede says, and Ed looks up to see a flicker of a naughty schoolboy smirk sweep across his features, “there is one particular downside to taking it slow."

    And the fucking dork waggles his eyebrows. Awful. Just appalling.

    It doesn’t not work for Ed.

     

    Ed and Stede fail at taking it slow, after Season 2 Episode 5.

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    20 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 58

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    Bubbles shielded Ed’s modesty, a dense carpet of them covering the surface of the water so that all Stede could see was his face, the silver mass of his hair piled messily, fetchingly atop his head, and—just above the cloud line, peeking in and out of view—the slope of his bare shoulders, the suggestion of a clavicle. A smear of bubblebath clung to his jaw. A stray lock of hair, damp with steam, stuck to the side of his neck.

    The sheer eroticism of the image nearly sent Stede to his knees; more devastating, perhaps, than if Ed had stood before him completely bare.

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    Ed's wearing the sack, and the bell. He's doing his best to make himself useful, to win back the crew's trust. He's just maybe not doing such a great job taking care of himself in the process, but luckily Stede has a solution: time for a bubble bath.

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    19 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 77

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    Missing scenes between 2x4 and the end of 2x5. Stede brings Ed home; Ed chooses to stay.

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    16 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 61

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    After Izzy dies, Stede comforts Ed. A glimpse into a moment elided by canon.

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    14 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 49

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    Honestly, Stede had no control over how he had ended up in the situation: having to kiss Ed as a result of a lost wager with the crew. But he can’t, hand on heart, say that he regrets it. It may even prove to be the spark that ignites a much brighter future for himself, and hopefully for - with - Ed as well. If he can just work out how best to stoke that intriguing fire…

     

    “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!“

     

    The chant, with its rich harmonies of multiple voices, rolls, inexorable as a tidal wave, across the twilight deck.

     

    Oh good God. And things had all been going so well.

     

    Stede stands, stiff and mortified, doing his best to ignore where he can make out Ed in his peripheral vision. Ed, standing next to Stede and calmly watching him, his face still, his arms folded across his chest.

     

    If only he hadn’t argued with Lucius, none of this would be happening. He wouldn’t be about to make an absolute fool of himself whilst also, more importantly, humiliating Ed in the process as well. Not that Ed looks humiliated. In fact, Stede could swear that there is a hint of a smirk lurking under that luscious beard.

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    06 Apr 2025