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To Slip A Collar by CharmCityKey for sheis-theslayer (Perididdle)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Jun 2022
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Summary
Many said to beware a man who grew old in professions where men tended to die young (or something like that), but there were no trite quips about men who became legends while there was still breath in their lungs, no rulebook for growing old by virtue of everyone being too fucking scared of you to treat you like the rest of your kind.
Stede, though - he wasn’t afraid of him. Even when his reputation had preceded him. Even when he’d confessed to planning to kill him. Even when they’d reunited and it had been the Kraken who’d collided with Stede on the deck of The Revenge, full of rage and hate and violence. Even then, Stede had looked at him and just seen Ed.
This is why he goes where Stede leads him. Even if he doesn’t understand. Even if he’s feeling something less world-weird men might call trepidation.
And when Stede’s standing behind him instead of beside him, chin on his shoulder, breath warm but so soft it almost tickled? When his body radiates such a beautiful heat despite the night’s chill? He’s already given himself over to Stede; he’s just waiting for him to notice.