(YES IT DOES BUT ALSO I KINDA LIKE IT???? Has anyone else written Gates/Flint because I feel like they should have. This has… slight dom/sub tones that i didn’t anticipate while writing but its not ridiculously heavy? James being looked after by Gates, vaguely NSFW though they don’t have sex so if that’s not what you want I’m sorry and i’ll write something else for you)
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It isn’t spoken of, not clearly, not since the first conversation they had which left James drained but satisfied. They simply… let it be. Whatever it is, they let it be.
He has only been captain for a few months, the Walrus slowly gaining the recognition she deserved and the name Flint becoming associated with ruthlessness and fear. Gates acts as his quartermaster and, when the weight and the grief and the blood become too much, his comforter.
Miranda does not know though she may have guessed. Anything they do together, anything James lets himself do, remains within the walls of the captain’s cabin. He sits and lets Gates cradle him, soothe him, bring him slowly from the depths of his despair, and lets Gates kiss away the salt-tear tracks on his cheeks. A sick and twisted satisfaction follows him after those encounters and James can barely bring himself to be ashamed of how it feels like being saved when Hal touches him.
It is simply what it is and he wouldn’t know how to cope if it were taken away.
does Gates/Flint count as a crack ship?
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