ed x stede <3
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The first time Ed sees Stede again, he tries to kill him.
Stede supposes he should have seen this coming. He also supposes that asking "What on Earth did you do to your face?" could have waited until after he'd attempted an apology.
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- Part 1 of ed x stede <3
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There'd be the drag of a lace cuff, the soft pliancy of Stede's fingertips on his hand or in his hair. He could feel it through his clothes, sometimes, a phantom press against his arm or shoulder or heart long after Stede had lowered his hand. He didn't know what to do with so much sensation, a tide of its own, one that made him afraid to open his mouth and let the water in, almost certain he'd drown.
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- Part 2 of ed x stede <3
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open up your heart, like the gates of hell by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
27 Mar 2022
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"Using my ears isn't exactly hard labor, Ed." Stede complains, crossing his arms then immediately wincing at the pull in his side. "Besides, I always say there's never a wrong time to open up your heart!"
Ed rolls his eyes. "Yeah, and there's never a wrong time to open up the gates of hell."
Stede levels him with a look. "A bit dramatic, don't you think?"
Ed heaves a sigh. "If you sleep now, I'll regale you with all kinds of exciting stories about my charmed fucking childhood when you wake up, alright?"
Stede grins, laying back down. "Deal."
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- Part 3 of ed x stede <3
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Ed didn’t want to resent Stede, he just wanted to live in his world for a little while, to see what it felt like to be surrounded by fine things as though he always had been, to see what it felt like to be the sort of person who says things like “I always wonder if I should match my handkerchief to my eyes or to my hair” and “Sometimes a statement sleeve is the only statement you need!”
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- Part 4 of ed x stede <3
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“Lucius? What are you doing?” Jim whispers, nudging him. Lucius is staring at the storm out the window like he’s looking at the Kraken itself.
“Its…It’s fucking Stede Bonnet!”
Ed’s eyes widen the slightest bit, his head jerking like he has to forcibly keep himself from looking out the window. “Yeah, like I’ll fall for that one—”
“Oh my god.” Jim says, leaning closer. “Is that Oluwande?”
“And Pete!” Lucius says, covering his mouth. “Okay, I need to raincheck on the whole mutiny thing, guys, sorry—jesus—" he's gone in seconds.
Jim hands Ivan the gun. “Yeah, you guys have him handled, right? I need to—” They run after Lucius.
Unable to hold himself back anymore, Ed turns to look at the window, a look of intense pain crossing his features for only a second. “Bonnet, you fucking idiot.” He breathes quietly, nose pressed to the glass.
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- Part 5 of ed x stede <3
- Part 1 of Compass
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They all gather around to look once it’s done, erupting into cheers and clapping Stede on the back and shoulders. He ducks his head, a bit shy.
“I’d give it a few days, wait until it heals a bit to show him.” Wee John says, sounding oddly choked up. “Make it the perfect moment.”
“Light some candles.” Frenchie suggests.
“Wear a robe and nothing else and tell him to unwrap his gift.” Lucius suggests, cackling at the look on Stede's face.
“I’ll know when the time is right.” Stede decides, tracing a finger over the delicate raised artwork in the mirror and hoping with everything in him that Ed likes it.
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- Part 6 of ed x stede <3
- Part 2 of Compass
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The First Annual Revenge Talent Show by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
06 Apr 2022
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“I don’t even know which robe you’re talking about.” Ed tries, looking too distracted to even try finishing getting dressed.
“The one you sleep in every night?” Stede spreads his hand over Ed’s chest, scraping feather-light with his nails over his skin.
“Not ringing a bell.” Ed says distantly. A mischievous look crosses his face. “Hey, do you think we have time to—”
He’s interrupted by an echoing bellow from outside the door. “Stede! We can’t find any shells for the mermaid bra!”
Stede sighs. “I better sort this.”
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- Part 7 of ed x stede <3
- Part 3 of Compass
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The first time Stede touches Ed again, he feels a bit like he’s been scalded. He has Stede pinned against the wooden railing of the ship, his knife to his throat, but Stede doesn’t look scared, just blinks at him with wide, apologetic eyes and says “I missed you.” Ed feels himself soften despite himself, the burning coals in his gaze shifting, almost going out, and that’s all it takes for Stede to smile, to lift a hand to his cheek. “There he is.” He says, an echo of Izzy’s words that cuts far deeper than it did when he said it.
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- Part 8 of ed x stede <3
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Stede Bonnet has a plan. One that he's definitely-sort-of-mostly thought through. After all, how hard can a museum heist actually be?
"Every great pioneer must furrow their own path forwards." Stede says sagely, trying to sound wise and wondering vaguely if anything he's saying makes any sense at all.
"Who said that? Some colonizer?"
"I said it, actually. But, speaking of colonizers, don't you want to know who our mark is?"
"Not particula—"
"The British Museum."
"...Fuck off."
"That's right. The big guys. Don't you want to take them down? At least a little bit?
Ed swirls his finger through some salt on the table, looking down at it instead of Stede. He doesn't answer.
"Little bit, eh?"
Ed looks up. "...Little bit."
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- Part 9 of ed x stede <3
- Part 1 of Heist
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He can picture it more clearly than ever: perfect days built on perfect days, a contentment deep in his bones, his hunger both stoked and sated with every taste of Stede on his tongue. In the evenings they'll watch local theatre to get better at Mandarin, which they'll use to haggle with the locals for furniture and other shiny things until their place looks exactly as Stede pictures it. Their bed will be by the window, draped in fabrics of purple and red and gold that glow like jewels in the candlelight.
Later they'll fall into it together, tipsy and pleasantly exhausted, and Stede will press his face into the back of Ed's neck and hold him there, and he'll know what it feels like to be home. In the low light Stede will kiss him sunstruck, take him apart limb by limb like an old marionette, whisper his name like it's the only word he knows. It's so close he can feel it grazing his fingertips, just waiting for him to close his hand around it and hold on.
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- Part 10 of ed x stede <3
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Talk Me Down (Or 5 times Stede took care of Ed and one time Ed took care of Stede) by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
18 May 2022
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"Already feeling better, eh?" Stede says, breathless and pleased.
"Mph." Ed says against his lips, crawling over him and sliding a hand under his jaw. Stede is very receptive, pliant and interested underneath him, and he wraps his arms around Ed's back, nails lightly scratching and making Ed drop onto his knees, goosebumps springing up over his skin. The angle that he hits his left knee at sends a sharp lance of pain through it, making him curse and roll onto his back, cursing "fuckingfuckbastardknee" as he does so.
"Oh, bugger, I'm sorry!" Stede says, reaching a hand down to wrap around Ed's knee, tilting it slightly to make sure it looks alright the way he does whenever it gets messed up. "Do you need me to do the clicky-thingy?"
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- Part 11 of ed x stede <3
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Bonnet's Eleven (aka Bonnet-and-Teach's-Sixteen-or-Maybe-Seventeen) go international!
Now with double the action, double the conflict, and double The Revenge! Get ready for boat chases, even more colonizers, a rival thief, and maybe even a rift in our beloved crew…
Stede sighs. "Chauncey wants us to do a job for him. To pay off Nigel's fines. I'll tell you what it is, but you have to promise not to think I'm making it up."
"Oh, god." Ed says, pressing his face into the back of the couch. "What is it?"
"Basically, um, he wants us to steal a Fabergé egg for him."
"Fuck off." Ed's voice is muffled by the couch. He slowly lifts his head. "He's Ocean's Twelving us?"
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- Part 12 of ed x stede <3
- Part 2 of Heist