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1. How to Fake It: Pretending You Don't Love Your Best Friend by Satan_Bubbles

   Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

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

   28 Nov 2025

   Tags

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   • Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)
   • Gale (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Tara (Baldur's Gate)
   • Post-Canon
   • Vampire Spawn Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Fluff
   • a hint of angst
   • Yearning
   • holy cow so much yearning
   • Misunderstandings
   • Hopeless pining
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • references to cazador
   • references to mystra

   Summary

   The Netherbrain has been defeated, and all is right in the world.

   Except his best friend Astarion starts to burn in the sun and has nowhere to run from his memories, to Gale’s chagrin and horror. Oh and also Astarion has no idea that Gale is madly in love with him.

   But the idea of never seeing his best friend now that it's over is heartbreaking to the wizard, which is a perfectly platonic response to your friend potentially leaving you, Gale will have you know. A bottle of wine and pining swirl inside Gale and he finally has it, the perfect solution! Asking Astarion to move back to Waterdeep with him.

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