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1. Just Friends by moonlit_verities

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

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

   10 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Pining
   • Meet-Cute
   • Slow Burn
   • unless you're Ed Teach
   • Oblivious Stede
   • much to everyone's exasperation
   • Especially Lucius
   • but especially Mary
   • First Kiss
   • Idiots in Love
   • why are they like this
   • Probably some smut eventually
   • Tags may change and update
   • Fluff
   • Mild Angst
   • because you can't have pining without it

   Summary

   Ed meets Stede at Lucius' Christmas party. Ed finds he's very fucking into Stede. Also that he's very fucking annoyed Lucius didn't think to introduce them sooner. Like maybe before Stede got a boyfriend. It's rare for Ed to feel the sting of rejection which is maybe why he agrees to take Stede's number "as friends". Ed's optimistic though- just because your first interaction with a guy is you trying to get into his pants and him being oblivious to that doesn't mean you haven't got a solid foundation for friendship, right? Right?!

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,792

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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