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1. Keep It for Yourself by bleachandablowtorch

   Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames
   • Francis Crozier & Lady Silence | Silna
   • Francis Crozier
   • James Fitzjames (1813-c.1848)
   • Lady Silence | Silna (The Terror)
   • others mentioned - Character
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Survivor Guilt
   • Blood and Injury
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Sickfic
   • Catharsis
   • Touch-Starved
   • also: ego death. and scurvy. and some christian nonsense.
   • francis crozier doing his comfort/vaguely fatherly routine and Fitzjames is on another planet
   • this is strictly about the characters from the show not the real life dead guys
   • okay here we go
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Post-Canon

   Summary

   He's not sure when exactly he'd found that out. That it works so well. Handling the men like- oh, he doesn't know how to describe it. Like a parent might handle a child, putting his hands on them steadily, closely.

   Maybe it was when Jopson combed his hair while he was mad and sick with alcohol withdrawal, and it was the only slightly good thing about his waking hours. Maybe it was when he cleaned the dirt out of Jopson's face while he was... Dying.

   And it doesn't help that Fitzjames constant eye contact seems to urge him on. Like he's trying to draw him back there by just looking. Like he's trying to read his mind.

   "Oh, you're..." He mutters, again without really knowing what he's saying. "You're killing me, James. You know that?"

   ---

   AMC's The Terror jumpscare.

   Series

   • Part 1 of habits to terror

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