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  1. Public Bookmark 47

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    Still.

    He likes Ed. He likes him so, so much. Too much to lie to him about this, and still, so much that it’s going to tear him apart when Ed leaves him.

    Even if this was just supposed to be a bi-monthly thing. Acquaintances-with-benefits.

    Friends-with-benefits, if Stede’s the one being asked.

    More than that.

    Stede would make Ed everything, if he asked.

    (Already, he sort of is.)

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    09 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 79

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    “My thigh is here,” Ed tells him, taking his wrist, lifting his hand until it meets the meat of Ed’s outer thigh. “If you need me to stop and you can’t manage your snaps, you just pinch right here, love. You hear me?”

    Stede strokes his thumb over the warm patch of skin just beneath the pad, telling him he knows, telling him okay, telling him he doesn’t want him to stop yet, all without needing to speak a word of any of it. “I will.”

    Ed releases him before his hands both come up to cradle his face between them.

    “I know you will,” Ed says.

    He says it like he really does know it, like he trusts Stede, like he’s proud of him for this, and the feeling that that realization has surging through him is unparalleled in this world. When he says he’d do anything for Ed, he means it; if it makes Ed happy and proud and pleased like this, there’s nothing he wouldn’t do.

    “Because you’d do anything for me, wouldn’t you?” Ed continues, as though he can read Stede’s thoughts.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    “Ed— What are you doing?” Stede demands, bewildered, a new sort of heat flashing through him at the sight of him tugging his pants down. “Wh—”

    “You said we could go swimming,” Ed reminds him. “On vacation.”

    He kicks them off, leaving him in his stockings and silk underthings from the waist down, moving to tear his shirt apart next. It comes up and off over his head in an intoxicating sweep of leather, only a minor amount of wriggling required for him to work his way out.

    Stede’s only able to— stare, for a beat, before Ed kicks at his shin. “Take your clothes off, love, ‘cause I’m throwing you in with or without them.”

    Love, he says, and Stede’s fingers clench up into white-knuckled fists before he rushes to do as Ed’s instructed him to do, half-intoxicated with desire, half-terrified Ed will ruin his clothes with the saltwater.

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    29 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 60

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    “I’m happy doing it while I’m all-human,” Stede informs him, strained. “You don’t have to do this on my account, I promise you.”

    Ed steps up, taking Stede’s chin in the cradle of his hand, directing him upwards to meet his eyes.

    “But you’re not all-human,” Ed points out. “Why would I treat you that way? Unless you want me to. I just want to treat you like you’re you.”

    Stede’s examining him with cautious optimism, a sun shining through clouds, that makes Ed’s heart just break right open to see.

    After a moment, hesitant, Stede asks, “Even the merperson bits?”

    “Especially the merperson bits,” Ed replies. “If you’d like.”

    Stede’s eyes flash, and he says, “I’ve never tried it before with somebody else.”

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    26 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 45

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    Bilbo should really pay attention during these meetings, he might miss something important.

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    24 Jan 2026