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“It’s just Uncle. He’s been taking care of me,” Laurent said calmly, like he meant it to be a comfort to Damen. He patted his hands as he stood and started to the door–
Damen caught him by the wrist. “Don’t let him in,” he pleaded. “Don’t ever let him in.”
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- Part 2 of Edgewise
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05 Nov 2025
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“Damianos.”
Damen looked up. Laurent’s gaze was level, and very blue.
“Broadly,” Laurent said, “is it the pain? Or the being told what to do?”
And suddenly Damen was finding it very hard to breathe. Laurent simply waited him out, his gaze fixed on Damen’s face. Damen couldn’t help remembering Nik’s description from last weekend. High alert.
“Both,” he said finally. Laurent gave a short nod, like he was filing that away. “And…”
“And what?”
Damen licked his lips. “And you, I think.”
This time the wash of pink over Laurent’s cheeks was unmistakable. Damen reveled in it, even as he fought the urge to squirm at his own confession.
“Noted,” Laurent said, very evenly.
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30 Sep 2025
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Damen and Laurent share an apartment. It's not supposed to be an exercise in patience and in bone-shattering faith.
It’s not that it isn’t Laurent’s fault, but contrary to what his attitude may suggest, Laurent does not simply wake up every morning and start planning—scrupulously and with a surety in hand that resembles the meticulous filing away of paperbacks at an archive—how he is going to start another argument with Damen.
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29 Aug 2025
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Laurent tries to distinguish between habit and desire. He asks for Damen's assistance.
Damen enunciated carefully, “What you are saying is that you want to be contrary when I make love to you.”
Laurent peeked out from behind his hands. “If all you are endeavouring to do in this conversation is insult me—”
“I'm not.”
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23 Jun 2025