SparklingFlowers
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Saturdays, James thinks with mild annoyance, are their day of rest. Yet somehow he’s woken up much earlier than necessary, brought out of peaceful sleep by the careful, steady turning of pages, which isn’t nearly as loud as Thomas’ thoughts piercing the early morning quiet.
“Surely,” James says after clearing his throat, stretching to peek at the cover page of Thomas’ volume, “Greek tragedies can wait until the sun has properly risen?”
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See, the thing is— it’s just too much. Thomas is not a man prone to fits of hysteria, but he has been on the verge of tears for at least six hours at this point, and it’s just too much. Being scolded like a child, spoken to as though his father wishes he was someone entirely different, knowing that Alfred is right, he’s right, if he could only find some self-control and stop throwing away friendships in his quest to find someone to hold close, someone warm, who understands him…
Thomas is twenty-one years old, six feet one inch tall, and Oxford-educated, and he starts crying at the dinner table in front of his father, God, and everyone.
or: a series of birthdays.
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because it doth remove / Those things which elemented it. by comtessedebussy
Fandoms: Black Sails
06 May 2020
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“What’s this?” James asks. He’s lifted a map off Thomas desk, and below is a neat pile of papers in Thomas’ handwriting. A quick glance reveals that they’re poems, full of inkblots and crossings out, some more legible than others – James knows how Thomas begins to scribble when he gets excited.
They’re breathtakingly beautiful - as Thomas’ words always are, as everything about him is. But thy are different, too; the previous poems James has read had been full of wit, clever turns of phrase, puns, and double entendres, just like his arguments. But these – they’re love poems. Written with passion and adoration, the force of it evident in every stroke of the pen, every word.
“They’re addressed to a man,” he points out the obvious.
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Thomas lets slip a secret from his past, and unwittingly wakes the darkness in James. The result is a revelation to them both.
Very high smut content. Follows on from The Journal of Lieutenant James McGraw.
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Encouraged by his senior officer to begin writing a journal, James McGraw finds himself documenting a dramatic turning point in his life; his first encounter with Lord Thomas Hamilton, and the evolution of their relationship...