Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Tags
Summary
It started like this:
Francis— belligerent, bullheaded, half-cut most of the time— was increasingly spending all night in his office. James found him there, glassy eyed, late one night as he was finalising some project for Sir John. The older man’s head tilted to one side, not in sleep, nor in contemplation, but merely misery and drunkenness. James felt a surge of anger and, below that, want: want that rose thick in the back of his throat until he thought he would be sick with it.