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    From the moment he first stepped out onto the balcony in St. Peter’s Square as Innocent XIV, Vincent Benítez knew that the days of his papacy were numbered. And yet, when a costly mistake forces him to resign, he doesn’t come prepared for the grief the loss of his office causes him.

    Thomas Lawrence naively liked to think that he wouldn’t live to see the end of Innocent’s papacy. He never could have imagined that he, of all people, would be the one responsible for it.

    Lost and with their hearts filled with both guilt and unexplored desires, they struggle to navigate the shambles of the life they knew. They find refuge in a place where they least expect it – an old, ramshackle farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, that’s just as desperate for love and forgiveness as them.

    Or: The one where Vincent and Thomas get the retirement they both deserve and finally allow themselves to love each other.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    One year ago, Thomas Lawrence left the Vatican.

    Six months ago, the pope was seriously injured after an assassination attempt.
    Five months ago, headlines everywhere read, “Pope Innocent XIV steps down following attack.”

    Now, Lawrence finds himself knocking on the door of a little old house to reconnect with the man he all but abandoned. Can broken trust (and hearts) be repaired?

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Sister Rosario thought she knew Pope Innocent rather well, until the impossible happens.

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    20 Mar 2026

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    When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.

    Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.

    Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.

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    03 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 75

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    “I wouldn’t call it a crush,” he begins, bracing himself for the storm. Be calm, he tells himself. God is with you.

    “You wouldn’t?” Lawrence squeaks. His eyes are wide, searching. Vincent would spare a thought for his beauty, if he had any to spare in the first place.

    “No.” Vincent shakes his head and sets his teacup down. “I would say that I am in love with you.”

     

     

    Or, a companion fic to the love I’m given, from Vincent’s POV.

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    01 Mar 2026