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Arthur spends a little too long in the desert with Dutch and John. Even the most open of landscapes can get stiflingly insular; can make a man lose himself. Even a man of Arthur's restraint.
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erratic and clumsy, too fast, too slow, too gentle, too rough; but shy all the while.
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It isn’t deliberate.
Not that first night, at least.
He just can’t sleep sometimes. Drifting off is easy, but then John wakes up screaming, clutching at a rope that hasn’t been wrapped around his throat in years— clawing at his neck, gasping like he’s suffocating. He still remembers what dying felt like; the trembling, fragile intimacy of it.
Still remembers the loud crack of Arthur’s gun. Arthur’s calloused hands on his face as he coaxed John up out of the mud, eyes so bright they hurt to look at, shhh, you’re all right now, boy. I gotchu.
Arthur wasn’t lying. He had him then, and he has him now, and every single day in between. Dutch looks out for them all, but in a fight it’s always Arthur standing at John’s back. Arthur’s bullets taking down the men in John’s way. Arthur’s hand on his shoulder when he’s shaking with adrenaline, easy, now, easy.
It is never easy, but it’s easier, with him there.
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31 Dec 2018
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“Hey.”
Charles looks up, squinting against the sun, and focuses on the figure looming above him. It’s a bright day on the mountain, and all this damned snow is doing nobody any favors. “Arthur,” he says. “Good morning.”
“Huh? Yeah, mornin’.” Arthur tilts his head, scratches at his jaw, and tucks his chin down towards his chest. It’s a very particular mannerism, one that Charles has watched him perform countless times.
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27 Dec 2018
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half the lies you tell aren't true by radiophile
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
05 Dec 2014
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It takes a long, long time for Dorian to realize that he is still waiting for the Bull to finish what he started.
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26 Dec 2018
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THE BETTER PART OF EVERYTHING THAT DOESN'T MATTER by spicyshimmy
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition
02 Dec 2014
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Bull and Dorian flirt poorly, get together, and make no promises at all. Spoilers for Bull's personal quest and Dorian-related happenings, that there is a dragon in Crestwood, and that Dorian hates the cold.
He was raised on ancient and expensive bottles of Aggregio Pavali. He knows how to judge the legs and the terroir, how to talk about each in sublime company until they surrender to his superior grasp of alcoholic poetry.
He prefers the brutish ale. It does a better job of getting one drunk.
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26 Dec 2018
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Originally written as a fill on the Dragon Age Kinkmeme. Meredith devises a ritual of bonding between templars and mages, and Hawke gets his very own ex-apostate: Anders. Garrett Hawke spent more than a year serving the templars in Kirkwall before he was assigned a mage of his own.
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26 Dec 2018