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    Marlas goes badly for Damen. He goes back to Ios with Laurent as his reluctant ward.
    aka an AU where Laurent grows up in Akielos.

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    11 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 44

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    “Listen, Auguste, we’ve been here before. I don’t need this totally overrated, superficial and capitalistic holiday in my life, I don’t need dating, I don’t need romance in my life and I don’t need a man to shove a ridiculously big, totally overpriced bouquet of boring red roses into my arms just so that he can slide into my-”
    Laurent never finished his sentence because a ridiculously big and totally overpriced bouquet of boring red roses smacked him in the face. His coffee splashed on the ground, staining his grey coat and his shoes. On instinct, he turned and saw a ridiculously big man with dark curls and dark skin who angrily walked away until he, as if feeling Laurent’s shocked gaze on the back of his head, turned and stopped. His brown eyes widened when he saw the mess on Laurent’s coat and shoes.

     

    Laurent hates Valentine's Day, but when a gorgeous man with a dimple in his cheek bumps into him on the street, something changes.

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    05 Jul 2025

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    Damen and Laurent break up. Nicaise brings them back together.

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    24 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    Damen volunteers for his fraternity’s “slave week” charity auction, only to find himself subject to the fickle whims of Laurent DeVere, a prissy student journalist willing to ignore his moral objections to the slave auction if it means tormenting Damen, the man responsible for paralyzing Laurent’s older brother.

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    07 Jun 2025

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    Laurent is a ragdoll, pulled down into the dark at improbable speed. The lift it makes in his stomach is odd, like the giddy drop on a rollercoaster. A moment of elation, perhaps, before he dies.

    He breaks the surface.

    His gasping mouth now pulls in air, his feet firmly on the rock bottom of the spring and legs holding him up unshakably. Water streams from his head, down his body, as though a bucket had been dumped over his head. He reaches up to push his sopping hair from his eyes.

    “Naiad,” a voice says.

    Laurent stills. Psychological collapse should be allowed, by the universe, to be a solitary affair, especially when it happens in a state of complete undress. It’s unfair on a cosmic level that Laurent should be happened upon by a stranger in his current condition.

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    On holiday with his brother in Ios, Laurent bathes in a hot spring. Unfortunately, he drowns. Even more unfortunately, when he surfaces somehow, he finds himself thrust back in time. Dropped into the middle of a mythologised ancient war for the Akielon throne, he is determined to get back to the modern day - even after ending up kidnapped (or perhaps rescued) by the rightful King, Damianos.

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    03 Jun 2025