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1. Saving Face by boughbellower

   Fandoms: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Arsenic and Old Lace - Kesselring  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Jonathan Brewster & Herman Einstein
   • Jonathan Brewster/Herman Einstein
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Jonathan Brewster
   • Herman Einstein
   • Unrequited Love
   • Pining
   • One-Sided Attraction
   • Non-Consensual Touching
   • looking askance at somnophilia but it's not quite there
   • Drugging
   • No Sex
   • criminals doing crimes
   • Mention of a murder
   • this is the first fic i've posted on here so lemme know if i need to add more tags folks
   • blood mention
   • Obsession
   • Toxic Relationship
   • mutually abusive duo
   • Cuddling

   Summary

   "Einstein liked him best when he was asleep.
   That wasn’t to say he wasn’t in awe of Jonathan Brewster when he was awake—he was! His purposeful gait, his burning eyes, his frightful and inquiring mind…the man was a terror and a wonder, but one to be observed from afar like a tiger in a zoo. It was incredible that he let Einstein get even this close to him. When he was asleep, though…well, that was a different story altogether. Einstein could get as close as he liked."

   A closer look at the dynamic between Herman Einstein and Jonathan Brewster. Jonathan gives us all the menace in the movie, but what compels Einstein to follow him?

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