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1. Letting People Down Is My Thing Baby by mycroftirl

   Fandoms: The Bright Sessions (Podcast)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Damien/Charlie Decker (The Bright Sessions)
   • Mark Bryant/Damien
   • Charlie Decker
   • Damien (The Bright Sessions)
   • Mark Bryant
   • Fluff
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Angst
   • relationship exploration
   • Awkward First Times
   • Cheating
   • Attempted suffocation
   • emotional blackmail
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Damien is rejecting his power
   • Mark is kind of jealous but also is anyone that surprised
   • If I Can't Have You No One Can
   • Title from a Fall Out Boy Song
   • Damien is massively FOB coded sorry not sorry
   • POV First Person
   • every time Charlie calls Damien a pet name Author screams into a pillow at the sweetness
   • Gratuitous Pet Names

   Summary

   What does a relationship look like after realizing you're not okay? That the closest thing you can call an ex was abusing you the entire time and you took it because a slap and a kiss was better than no kiss at all? With every kind word, every tender touch, and every loving glance that Charlie sends his way, Damien sinks deeper and deeper into the love he feels for this man.

   But things aren't always simple, are they? Desperate to cling to control over Damien, Mark makes sure to remind him of his place and where he stands in the world.

   And, of course, Damien is panicking about his past and how that might change how Charlie looks at him.

   Series

   • Part 2 of CotH Verse

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   39,034

   Chapters:

   8/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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