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1. A Step to the Side and All Has Changed by statistically_improbable

   Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   13 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • William Laurence/Napoléon I de France | Napoléon Bonaparte
   • Josephine de Beauharnais Bonaparte/Napoléon I de France | Napoléon Bonaparte/William Laurence
   • William Laurence
   • Temeraire (Temeraire)
   • Napoléon I de France | Napoléon Bonaparte
   • Josephine de Beauharnais Bonaparte
   • Jane Roland
   • Liberté - Character
   • Joachim Murat (1767-1815)
   • John Granby (Temeraire)
   • Iskierka (Temeraire)
   • Edith Galman
   • Bertram Woolvey
   • Tenzing Tharkay
   • Gong Su (Temeraire)
   • Perscitia (Temeraire)
   • Lung Tien Lien
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Laurence in his unreliable narrator phase
   • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
   • Mildly Dubious Consent
   • Major Character Injury
   • Attempted Sexual Assault
   • Non-Consensual Touching
   • Mpreg | Male Pregnancy
   • Period Typical Alcohol Consumption

   Summary

   When, during their desperate flight from Scotland to France with the cure to the dragon plague, Laurence and Temeraire encounter an English patrol hellbent on stopping their mission, Laurence finds himself near mortally wounded and his return to England thus necessarily delayed. The ripple effects of this extended stay in France will be far beyond what he, or his eager hosts, could have anticipated.

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