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1. something in your hand to break by Andelise

   Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold  

   • Explicit
   • Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   14 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Aral Vorkosigan/Ges Vorrutyer
   • Ges Vorrutyer
   • Aral Vorkosigan
   • Aral Vorkosigan's First Wife
   • Serg Vorbarra
   • Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
   • Konstantin Bothari
   • (as a looming shadow in the background)
   • Time Period: Reign of Ezar Vorbarra
   • Obsession
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • Anal Sex
   • Oral Sex
   • Drunk Sex
   • Outdoor Sex
   • Rough Sex
   • Angst
   • Jealousy
   • Consensual but Not Safe or Sane
   • Dom/sub Undertones
   • Under-negotiated Kink
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • The Pairing Is the Warning
   • major character death is Ges
   • which I doubt anyone will be too broken up about but nevertheless
   • Canonical Character Death

   Summary

   He’s eighteen and meets Aral Vorkosigan at the Academy, in an otherwise criminally dull Introduction to Strategic Warfare class...
   Ges resents him instantly. Ges wants him instantly.
   Then he sees a slight smile crack that stony façade, a sly expression of satisfaction, and his heart skips. Oh, he thinks, picturing the next few years unfolding before him, that smile reappearing at intervals like a signal flare. So that’s how it’s going to be from now on.

   ***

   scenes from a collapse in slow motion.

   Series

   • Part 2 of The Aral Files

   Language:

   English

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