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   run for cover in the temple of love by pomgore

   Fandoms: Kingdom of Heaven (2005)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   31 Jul 2024

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Baldwin IV of Jerusalem/Balian of Ibelin
   • Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
   • Balian of Ibelin
   • Established Relationship
   • relationship in progress
   • Fluff and Smut
   • Frottage
   • First Time
   • Sexual Inexperience
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Introspection
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • when you cant touch your man because he has a contagious disease
   • you get creative
   • Internalized Homophobia

   Summary

   It is senseless, really. No man would die if he were never touched again, never held again. That secret longing Baldwin feels when Balian draws close to his vile, mottled skin between which layers and layers of cloth and air exist is only longing, and not longing worth quenching.

   Baldwin is a mere man, though, and men are often given to desire.

   ~~~

   Meaning to rectify an unfair loss, Balian offers Baldwin something he can neither accept nor refuse.

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