Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

• Yes, Continue
• No, Go Back

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

1. A Tender Trap by aRealHumanBartender

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   14 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Whump
   • Infidelity
   • Pining
   • References to Depression
   • 90s AU
   • alcohol use
   • cigarette use
   • shag carpet sex
   • eventual happy ending i promise

   Summary

   OFMD Whumptober day 14:
   Put on display
   Trouble breathing
   You were always gonna realize what I am

   Part of a series of non-linear scenes that take place some time in the 90s.

   Stede and Ed have been meeting at a motel for months. How much do they share? How much do they want? This week they have company at the motel.

   Title from the companion piece: Depeche Mode's Cover of U2's "So Cruel"

   Series

   • Part 4 of Love In The Time of Pay Phones

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,012

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Collections:

   1

   Comments:

   18

   Kudos:

   49

   Bookmarks:

   2

   Hits:

   191