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    Merlin spent the week and a half that Arthur was gone splitting his time between crafting careful explanations that never ended up explaining the important things, the things that would make Arthur listen, and making half-baked plans to escape to Ealdor. He found a number of fire-proofing spells that would have no effect if they decided to cut his head off, and figured out how to adapt an invulnerability spell he had been trying to find a way to cast on Arthur without him noticing so that it would protect him from being decapitated, but it would have no effect on anything but metal. Despite all his frantic searching, he did not find a teleportation spell, because that would have been too simple and if there was one thing Merlin had learned in his years at Camelot, it was that nothing was ever simple.

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    Pre-canon, James learns that Thomas is alive and risks everything to track down the transport ship before it’s too late. After they’re reunited, he realizes that Captain Flint cannot exist in the same world as Thomas. Together, they forge a new path, unlike anything they could have imagined in their old life.

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    James finds it remarkable, how gathering his thoughts in this moment is a lot like trying to finesse his crew back from a mutiny. Tense anticipation knots his shoulders. Control dances neatly from between his fingers, every confession he wishes to make staying just out of reach yet watching him with demanding eyes.

    It's hard to know which confessions to watch back; which will turn on him and become the noose with which he hangs. Which ones will put the lever in Thomas' hands. Which may convince him to pull it.

    Thomas had been willing to pardon pirates, all those years ago. Would he pardon a monster, surrendered at his feet?

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    04 Mar 2024

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    Major Hamilton introduces himself as Thomas.

    He has on a clean pressed uniform, his hair is swept back with pomade, and when he holds out his hand in greeting, James knows on sight that he has never seen a day in battle.

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    04 Mar 2024

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    James faces the window, staring out at the darkness of the gardens as though he is thousand miles away. Thomas might have thought his approach went almost unnoticed, except that the absolute stillness with which James holds himself could only come from someone who was very intentionally not moving. It almost seems as if he’s afraid to; as though the slightest tremor in the fragile fabric of what the two of them have shared that evening would tear the entire thing apart.

    Thomas knows the feeling. He shares it, intimately. But he has come too far to turn back now - and he knows he will regret it forever if he lets his courage fail him in this moment. He reaches out very slowly and caresses the tips of James’ fingers with his own.

    “Will you stay?”

    OR: yes we obviously need another fic about what happens post-kiss/Alfred Hamilton getting smacked down. So have like, 6 chapters of smut and feelings.

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    03 Mar 2024