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   To Force His Hand by Alex51324

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 Apr 2022

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
   • Stede is eager to make friends with Izzy
   • Izzy still wishes Stede would go away
   • Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Israel Hands
   • Under-negotiated Kink
   • Rough Oral Sex
   • BDSM
   • AU where Izzy has 1 coping skill
   • and it's Ed beating him up until he cries
   • homerotic wound-tending
   • characters are aware of the trope and invoking it on purpose
   • Relationship Negotiation
   • Ed and Izzy have a stronger/healthier relationship than in canon
   • but please do not mistake this for a healthy or realistic kink dynamic
   • Ed basically invented BDSM because of Izzy's whole...deal
   • and he's making it up through trial and error

   Summary

   “I must’ve put my foot in it somehow,” Stede admitted. “I wanted to, well, to give him some reassurance, that I’m not trying to take you away from him—goodness, there’s plenty of you for both of us, but he…well, I didn’t get that far, before he took offense.”

    

    

   Ed looked over the table and huffed, shaking his head. “Yeah. You can’t just sit Iz down and talk about something like that over a cup of tea. If you want him to hold still for that kind of thing, you have to beat the shit out of him first.”

    

   Updated! Now with a second chapter featuring Izzy's POV.

   Series

   • Part 1 of To Force His Hand

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