Ed makes it up to him
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Stede's birthday is coming up and all he really wants is a pirate themed party. His boyfriend thinks he's being childish and stupid. The handsome stranger in the cake aisle disagrees.
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“Pirates, is it?”“Please don’t tease. I really don’t think I can handle any more ridicule today.”
“Shit, no I didn’t mean it like that. I’m a bit of a pirate nerd myself. Can I show you something?” He began unbuttoning his dress shirt before Stede could form the words to answer.
“What are you doing?” he started to ask, trailing off quickly as his mouth went dry at the sight of the man’s bare chest where he had pulled his undershirt all the way up. Stede was too distracted to finish speaking by the overall impression: a canvas of ink covered skin, muscular and soft in all the right places, a tantalizing trail of dark hair leading Stede’s eyes down, down…
Fuck. Focus, Bonnet.
He dragged his focus back to the inked images which were surely the point of this man’s public indecency.
~~~~(Mary to Ed, some time later):
“So, do you throw personalized birthday parties for all of your patrons, or just the ones you show your tits to in the grocery store?” -
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When Ed kisses him he sort of - floats. Like he’s being lifted, buoyed. And he still feels that, mostly. But now there’s something alongside it that sort of hovers out of sight, an anchor to the earth. He tries to close his mind against it, though that strategy didn’t exactly work with the first dearly departed Badminton, if he’s honest. That ghost had staying power, he’ll give him that. He supposes that the only way the poor fellow stayed trapped on that beach was Stede’s eventual indifference. His acceptance, maybe. This feels so much harder.
Ed assures Stede that their first time was not a mistake, which Stede desperately needs (AND DESERVES) to hear.