I Said Father, Change My Name (Expanded AU)
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“You what?”
“I said I love you, Thomas.” More stuffing of papers and stationary, and Aldo Bellini was normally so careful with things.
“You…can’t. You shan't say that.”
“Well, I’m sorry if it’s a burden to you. But I already said it.”
Thomas’ collar itched and he ran a nervous hand along the back of his neck to still the feeling. “Aldo, I teach canon law for Heaven’s sake. We are ordained ministers. You can’t possibly think I can reciprocate a desire that even the most progressive among our brothers recognize as disordered.”
(AKA the Aldo-moves-on-with-his-stupid-gay-life AU)
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20 years after Aldo Bellini resigned from his post at the Gregorian and vanished from Rome altogether, Thomas Lawrence awakens in his old friend’s bed. Whisked away from his own timeline with no idea how to get home, Thomas must learn to survive the life he may have had if he'd followed him all those years ago.
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In the late 1990s, Professor Aldo Bellini made a swift exit from the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome and the priesthood altogether, bound for a new life in New York City. In doing so, he lost touch with his best friend, the future-cardinal Thomas Lawrence. The pair would not reunite for over twenty years, until Cardinal Lawrence — by then Dean of the College of Cardinals — shocked the world by abandoning his post on the cusp of a historic conclave, which many believed would end with him as pope.
Although Lawrence has since kept a low profile and refused all requests for comment from the media, trusted sources have confirmed that he left Rome in the company of Mr. Bellini, and the two have been spotted together in Manhattan several times since the election of Pope Innocent XIV. According to Lawrence’s former staff, the Dean cited “a glimpse” as the sole explanation for his disappearance.
This is that glimpse, the version of events where Thomas followed Aldo several years after the professor’s initial departure in 1998.
(aka The Aldo-moves-on-with-his-stupid-gay-life AU, ***Expanded Edition*** or the parallel universe prequel to "I Said Father, Change My Name")
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