our heart felt like a single thing

verhexen:

a black sails flinthamiltons fic for @nightowlpost’s prompt, “thomas and miranda proposing to james”

it would be on ao3 but they’ve flagged this as spam so i’m just gonna go cry in a corner about it instead

ko-fi

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James McGraw was disinterested in marriage. It was not that he had any particular opposition to the construct – just that he had never once considered it. In general, perhaps, or when a friend or family member entered the blessed union, but not for himself. For himself he saw his career and work filling his available time, and felt no impulse to pursue a different arrangement. His assumption, never voiced nor thought explicitly but merely present in his subconscious, was that when the time was right, the situation would present itself.

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