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An visitor from Lucius's past shows up unexpectedly with surprising news - and a wish to repair their broken relationship.
Add in a well-meaning boss who is desperately pining for his new financial adviser and planning for his own wedding? Well, Lucius really just has a lot going on at the moment.
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Love and Caring (derogatory) by SteggyLikesJuiceBoxes
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
14 Apr 2025
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Lucius loves Pete. Like really loves Pete. And Pete is just the sweetest.
Then there’s Fang, who despite his larger stature and tough countenance, is also gentle and kind to Lucius.
In fact, during his time on The Revenge, the entire crew had treated Lucius with more care and thought than he could remember ever receiving in his entire life. Even Izzy just wants to yell at him and make him do chores, but…he never lays a hand on the boy. Once he and Jim had come to an understanding, and minus one medically necessary finger, no one on the crew had ever wanted to hurt a hair on the scribe's little head.
And therein lay Lucius’ problem, so he sets out to find what he needs. Though of course he has no idea what that actually is, he's determined to figure it out. All the while his lovers and friends watch and worry.
10/9/23 Edit: So I'm going back through and editing some previous chapters, nothing major, just some grammar and formatting that's been bothering me on some of the older ones. Then I plan to continue! New season has me absolutely feral.
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Ed doesn't remember pushing Lucius off the ship. He's beginning to suspect there are a lot of things he can't remember. Nevertheless, he doesn't like the bad blood between the two of them and wants to fix it before he leaves the ship to retire. He has a story to tell Lucius--something he's never told anyone before and it has to do with a certain piece of red silk.
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An empty stage. Remnants of life: a net in one corner, floorboards pitted, dark stains spattered over the wall, a sketchbook propped up against the wall. Or not. Maybe it’s just empty.
A YOUNG MAN enters. Uncomfortable.
He takes a trinket from his pocket – a wooden shark toy – and places it down. The position is wrong; he fixes it. Fixes it again. Curses. He’s tried too many times; it will never be right.
He crosses to the wall, curls up against it. Breathes. Counts to ten, uncurls deliberately; a breathing exercise. Shakes out his hands.YOUNG MAN: This is so fucking stupid.
The man who used to be Lucius Spriggs mourns.
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Has your avoidant attachment style, crippling anxiety, and desire to “not be a bother” ever caused you to go on an intense spiritual journey where you contemplate the very nature of reality? That's what this fic is about.
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As Stede nervously prepares for a week of alone time with Ed, the crew girds themselves for the prospect of being led by Captain Buttons. But when Stede accidentally drinks too much of a mysterious tea Buttons had prepared for an eclipse ritual, it leads to an intense, spiritual experience. While Stede is incapacitated, the Revenge comes under fire from an enemy vessel and Ed is forced to make a painful, life-altering decision.
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THIS STORY IS FINISHED at 20,000 words but I'll be periodically adding little epilogues showing the experiences of different crew members as they process/evolve from the events that took place. Think of everything after 20k as dessert :)
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I added the names of the POV characters for each epilogue chapter so if you're just eager to read them as standalones (they work really well like that), click on "Chapter Index". -
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Izzy's warm hand on Lucius' cheek is unexpected, but it pulls him back out of his own head. "You're really not having a laugh, are you?" he asks quietly enough not even Buttons would dare to listen in.
"There are dangerous men in this port." Lucius feels like he's pulling words through the top of a poorly-bored hole in a frozen lake with nothing but his teeth. "That's all."
"What, worse than me?"
Lucius knows he should laugh. "Yes." Izzy's thumb slides over Lucius' cheekbone, and for a terrifying moment, Lucius thinks he's going to choose now to finally kiss him, as if Lucius hasn't been screaming at him to do it in everything but semaphore for weeks. "Very much so," he tacks on, just in case the first yes was drowned out by the blood pounding in his ears. "No offense meant."
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To protect Jim, Izzy puts himself into a Situation only Lucius knows how to rescue him from. Unfortunately, that means finally facing and coming to terms with all the ghosts from his past in Port Royal.
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sluts (affectionate) by shiphitsthefan for drownedscribe
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
06 Oct 2023
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He holds out his hand for Lucius to take, pulling him back up beside him. "We'll figure it out. Where was everyone else going?"
Lucius makes a face. "Ugh, some boarding house with lots of cots and probably a worse smell. Hardly lends itself to the art of seduction, being surrounded by forty grody gentlemen and the aroma of old wet horse."
"Our first time was in the hidden cupboard near the livestock," Pete reminds him as they turn back onto the main road. "I might be a lot of things, but an expensive date is not one of them."
"See, that's just it." Lucius slips his elbow around Pete's. "All we've shared so far are stolen moments in shared spaces. Maybe I want to seduce you properly."
Pete slows his pace, Lucius still chattering, but Pete not really hearing the words. Something about being seduced seems uncomfortably close to being taken care of.
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After the events of episode six, the crew is forced to make port in the Republic of Pirates. Lucius and Pete seize the opportunity for a romantic and increasingly slutty vacation.
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i could find you, darling, in any life by Fool_for_love
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
03 Oct 2023
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There’s a bit of love in death, and a bit of death in love. No wonder the two so often go hand-in-hand.
Lucius Spriggs is not at all enamored by the idea of his Names. Would it be useful to know the name of the person who will be responsible for his death? Sure, but it comes hand in hand with knowing the name of the love of his life, his soulmate, and Lucius has no interest in that. He’s a free spirit, free as they come, and the idea of being tied down by anyone- well, he’s not thrilled. So when Lucius’s Names appear on his wrists on his eighteenth birthday, it really doesn’t mean all that much.
Then he meets Black Pete.
Black Pete, or Peter, depending on who you ask, is not a sentimental man. At least, he tells himself he isn’t. He’s rough and mean and tough, and rough and mean and tough men don’t care about their Names. They especially don’t care about their Names when they can’t read them. So Pete, in the true spirit of his ideal self-image, tells himself he doesn’t give a shit about his soulmate or the person who will kill him.
Then he meets Lucius Spriggs.
AKA the soulmate au Pete and Lucius deserve. title from francesca by hozier
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Isa is safe and sound back on The Revenge but things are far from fixed. Now faced with the very people responsible for ruining her life, she has a decision to make; either stay with her friends and coexist with the men she hates more than anything or go back to Ireland and continue to feel empty and lost. No matter what she tries to do, no matter what anyone else has to say to her, she can't quell the boiling rage deep in the pit of her chest.
When did things have to get so complicated?(Author's note; from this point on, all stories are post canon. I have no idea how this is going to be affected by season 2 but it's very likely going to be a divergence from whatever Taika and David have in store so if you're reading this in the future where a detail of my story is thrown out the window by season 2, I am sorry)
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- Part 16 of The Songbird Chronicles
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Take Me into Your Loving Arms. by Dontmindifislytherin
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
15 Apr 2023
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Lucius didn't do this. He didn't do the awkward after hookup bask in the moment. He left as soon as be could, never looking back in case he got hurt.
Until a very persistent pirate teaches him staying (and cuddling) is not a bad thing. Actually it could be... Nice.
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Things go down. Izzy deals with it horribly.
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Life on the Revenge is starting to have an effect on Izzy Hands. He's having... feelings. It's shocking what a little safety and contentment can do to a man. As he struggles to let go of his history with Edward, Izzy finds a new and complicated sort of affection blooming for Lucius.
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Lucius has never been a fan of thunderstorms and usually holes himself in a homemade soft room whenever one does come their way, but he finds an unexpected guest in his usual hideaway...and finally gets her to come out of her shell a little.
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- Part 3 of The Songbird Chronicles
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Lucius learned at a young age that he couldn’t always be the biggest or the strongest, so he then made it his mission to be able to fuck with anybody no matter their size in relation to his.
He uses this knowledge to fuck with Izzy Hands, because if he won’t then who will?? And if he can somehow seduce him on the way that would be an amazing additionAKA: Lucius Spriggs has a bet that he is bound to win eventually.
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a fancy man, a fancy ship, & a brigade of imbeciles by Fool_for_love
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
24 Sep 2022
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The ship is lonely. Maybe Stede should have expected that. It was never built for just him, bumping around the corridors like a particularly clumsy ghost. No, it was built for a family. For Stede’s family, specifically.
In light of their absence, he supposes he’ll have to find a new one. Well, for now, he’d settle for a crew. But how does one go about finding the right sort of pirates for a venture like his?
Turns out, one doesn’t. The right sort of pirates find you.
In which the crew of the Revenge comes to be. Crew backstory because I tear up over these idiots every single day.
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A documentary crew follows one Stede Bonnet on his voyage to become a pirate. Having neglected to christen his ship and with rumors circulating, will the crew make it to their first raid?
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Before finding Lucius, Stede hires a film crew to document his adventures. Things do not go as planned.
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The Fall and Rise of Lucius Spriggs by Rotten_Soldier
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
03 Jul 2022
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This fic is on pause for
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but I'll probably return to it in the winter!Besides the icy shock of the Atlanic Ocean closing around him, the thing that shocked Lucius the most when Ed Teach knocked him in the water was: he didn’t see it coming.
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In which Lucius Spriggs makes a splash, finds a new crew, reunites his old crew, and finally sees the world. -
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The man was an obvious mark. In a dockside tavern full of ragged sailors looking for berths and grizzled old men who were retelling the same tall tales about their time at sea, he stood out like … well, like some oblivious rich prat who was slumming it for a thrill. He probably had a nice fat purse in his pocket that would pay for months of Lucius’s lodgings, which were shit, actually, so maybe they’d pay for weeks somewhere better instead.
Wait. Well. Hmm …Maybe there was a better way to take this rich idiot’s money off him, and for a longer term.
When Lucius met Stede.
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Sketchy! Or Stede Bonnet And His Salty Seamen by BonkerBuster69
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
03 Jun 2022
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“You’re kidding. You want me to sketch you? May I ask why the sudden change of scruples?”
“Well…you mentioned it might be in everyone’s best interest to…’make a move’ as it were. But every time I find myself alone with the man and the time is right I…I lose my nerve. I have all these lovely things I want to say to him in my head but I’m…much more eloquent on paper. Only problem is he can’t read. So I figured perhaps a seductive portrait would help break the ice.”
“You tawdry slut…!”
“Lucius!”
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“So-“ the kiss. He really shouldn’t ask about the kiss. He really shouldn’t. Or the hickey, and the mouth that made it. It was tempting, even just to raise it to see what would happen. But Lucius might as well shove the blade into his gut himself. Was he embarrassed? The pink had faded from him, but was it rage or shame? Did he imagine it like Lucius did, that brief spark of time stretching a whole night long? Perfect and sweet, and the thunder that rumbled in his blood – did Izzy remember? Did he regret?
For a moment he paused. He looks delicate, glass blown. Perhaps he waited, watching, just to see if he could exist here. If there were space here between them made safe for this Israel Hands.
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Izzy learns that he can be something else, beyond the abandonment and shame.
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- Part 3 of Our Fleeting Days