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Once he sees James Fitzjames with sober eyes, he knows he’s got a problem.
Francis still wants to punch him, but that something else, of which he’s begrudgingly become more and more aware has also remained. He’d assumed it a result of drink-fuelled lust, a mirage, his brain confusing the upheaval of annoyance with that of attraction. And yet.
And yet.
He’d never have said a thing, never have gone to him — except James is the one to come to him.
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03 Jun 2026
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For reasons James has not analysed, he has always enjoyed the comfortable assumption that Francis Crozier was already married. No one has ever informed him thus – indeed, now he thinks on it, several men may have informed him to the contrary – but he always had a strangely secure idea of Francis as a married man, and of what a Mrs Crozier might be like.
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James Fitzjames enjoys scoffing at Francis Crozier's matrimonial ambitions without realising what lies behind that mockery.
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03 Jun 2026
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A Touch, a Squeeze, and a little bit of Gentleness by Blue_Sparkle
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
01 Jun 2022
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The first time, while out dying on the shale. And the first time recovered and fully bared to another man.
Two instances of first times for James Fitzjames
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02 Jun 2026
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Francis had come to James the evening of Sir John’s funeral, taken him aside privately, his breath laced with the cloying smell of rum. James had braced himself for a litany of his own failings, but instead, Francis had clapped him on the shoulder and looked him in the eye. “Fitzjames, I’ve not been a friend to you,” he’d said, “but I pray you will give me a second chance.”
James had nodded stiffly, hiding his surprise. He knew better than to trust a drunken profession such as this one; nonetheless, a tendril of hope sprouted deep within his heart.
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A fix-it (of sorts) that explores the questions: What if Hickey was found out earlier on? And what if Francis Crozier's relationship with his second turned into something different, and more?
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Francis does not seek him anymore, but neither—still worse—does Francis bother to dismiss him when James arrives of his own volition, each time with all the hope of the most wretched fool. “Oh, get to it, then,” Francis muttered with sublime disinterest that very day when James appeared in his cabin’s doorway. James had, in fact, come to talk—but he had not hesitated when Francis gestured dispassionately to the front of his trousers. He had dropped, wordlessly, to his knees to obey.
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