Chapters: ¾ Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails) Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey Summary:
There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.
In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.
“…For that is the single most dangerous weapon they possess – the one they tempt. Give us your submission, and we will give you the comfort you need. No. I can think of no measure of comfort worth that price.”
There’s no difference between pictures of rural America and the ones we all laugh at of rural Russia and we need to face that truth in order to humanize each other
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