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Ramsay Bolton orchestrates a reunion between Asher and Mira that leaves one bloody and both broken.
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"It's not the fair-haired maidens he fancies, my Lord."
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holy promise that you made to me by mafalda_157
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
05 Jul 2025
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Hans is about to die, and he decides the last thing he wants to look at is Henry.
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Henry and Hans kiss at Trosky instead of Suchdol. It changes everything. It changes nothing.
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27 Jul 2025
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nothing but your beating heart by mafalda_157
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
25 Jul 2025
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"See? I just knew it," Hans says, poking Henry's chest. "I knew you’d be too damn hairy. Look at all this. You're practically a barbarian."
Henry's snort is fond when it leaves his lungs, more exhale than sound. "You're hairy too," he offers graciously, flicking his eyes down a pale chest. His memory conjures up images of blond tufts—darkened with water, clustered beneath a navel, peeking coyly from under an armpit—before he banishes them. "It's just hard to see on your arms and legs, cause your hair is so fine. It makes your skin look soft," he adds, crazily, airing a thought that should have been kept barred and bolted.
"Do you think about my skin often, blacksmith's boy?"
"No." Henry is distracted; Hans's finger is twisting around his chest hair, an entirely new sensation for Henry's body. His spine tingles. "Maybe. I dunno."
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Hans keeps insisting that Henry share his bed. A very normal and platonic thing to do.
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27 Jul 2025
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“Do you remember what you told me before that battle?”
Henry’s eyes search his. Hans knows that he knows although he says, “Remind me.”
“You told me that courage in the face of fear is a knightly virtue,” Hans says, kicking at a loose pebble at his feet. It skitters between them, settling just shy of Henry’s boots. “And that being brave is something that you have to learn.”
Henry kicks the stone back. “Are you afraid now?”
Opportunities present themselves at the siege of Suchdol, and love makes Hans brave.
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- Part 14 of altar
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25 Jul 2025
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The clouds have taken on colorful hues, purples and pinks and oranges, swirling across the sky like soap on the surface of a tub. Hans turns onto his side. Henry watches him from the edge of his periphery. If he doesn’t move. If he stays just like this. Sunset glow, sweetness from the bun clinging to his mouth, Hans’s breath breaking against the side of his face. Perfect. Everything here and now is perfect.
A pair of beaten metal rings. A package of sweet buns. A pitcher of red wine and two cups. A freshly washed blanket. A clearing in the woods. A superstition—bad luck to see the other party before a wedding. Through the makings of a perfect day, Henry navigates Rattay and endless possibility on his way to his secret wedding.
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- Part 13 of altar
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24 Jul 2025
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vessel, shadow, hurrying light by rowanisawriter
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
22 Jun 2025
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A lurch in his stomach, like the moment of dark surprise when he misses a step going down the stairs. It soon turns into a gnawing sensation, a memory of hunger that seems to be there always, although Hans has since always had enough to eat. Hunger for touch. For Henry. For their desperate fumbling in his borrowed bed in the fortress. For more time together, despite the busy days that followed them in the Kuttenberg region after the siege, and then returning home to plan this, their great escape, their last chance.
Rattay, Vienna, Sofia, Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem. Hans and Henry on pilgrimage to the Holy Land on borrowed time, through six cities, in six states of sin and sanctity.
Chapter six: dust from the holy sepulcher / absolution / jerusalem
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- Part 12 of altar
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24 Jul 2025