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Fluctuat nec mergitur by QueenOfSlowburn
Fandoms: Gladiator (Movies - Scott), Gladiator II
08 Oct 2025
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Summary
She spent nearly three decades behind temple walls, untouched and revered — a Vestal Virgin sworn to Rome. But with her protector dying and old bloodlines stirring unease, she’s married off to a general, a stranger in armor and silence. What begins as a political maneuver becomes something far more fragile and dangerous: a mission into the heart of Gaul, where peace must be forged not just with words, but appearances. The forest is colder than she imagined, and the man at her side is not the brute she expected. In a world that watches them both with suspicion, trust comes slow — and desire, slower still.