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Hans lies in the grass outside Devil's Den, sweltering in the sun. He's liable to go mad here, he thinks. There's too much time to dwell on things, on nightmares of Suchdol and bodies littering the courtyard. On the wound in his shoulder that will never cease to hurt him, the way he has traded a gilded cage for rickety one made from crumbling plaster and ale stained wood. He will always be trapped somehow, by his own body or by circumstance it doesn't matter. What matters is the relief he finds in the weight of Henry atop him, whispering sharp words mixed with praise into his ear. He is changing, though what he will become he does not know.
And Henry, he is changing too, into a man who can't seem to find peace. Someone who can't be a moment without a job or without a fight.
War, it seems, has altered them both.
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10 Jun 2026
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He started to pass the water back, but now when Henry reached for it Hans caught his wrist. There was this darkness here that Henry must know, that he must understand. He should realize the threat that Hans posed to him.
“...if you’re going to throw your life away for a man, I would only have it be for me.”
That’s what you’re doing, you see?
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After a drunken night in the bathhouse fumbling with the blacksmith’s boy, Hans Capon resolves to keep his hands to himself. But then a suave knight has to catch the eye of Bohemia’s favorite hero, and suddenly Hans finds himself struggling to not repeat the sins of the past.
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CW: This fic deals with themes of trauma and all the ways that shapes a person, good and bad. There's a lot of hurt but there's healing too!
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30 May 2026
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Hans smoothed Henry's collar once more, his hands lingering longer than necessary.
For a moment, neither of them moved.
Hans wanted to find the exact point where Henry’s composure would betray him.
But not here.
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Henry and Hans set out to Kuttenberg to check on one of Katherine's girls. All the while they try to figure out how to bridge the gap after Suchdol.
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- Part 2 of Post-Canon Chronicles
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13 May 2026
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If you asked poets and minstrels, and lovey-dovey aristocrats wooing naive wenches across Bohemia, they would tell you that absence makes the heart grow fonder. If you asked young lord Hans Capon of Pirkstein, however, he’d tell you it’s an idiotic, pestilential sentiment coined by some daft cunt who never had to suffer the terror and indignity of being parted from their heart’s desire. Or they’ve just never met Henry.
Each time Hans cannot see him, the walls of the world start closing in, threatening to crush him. Each time Henry is away, the young lord has to face the terrifying reality of longing, craving, dreaming, yearning—and the frustration of not knowing whether the blacksmith’s boy is even alive. Worse! The frustration of not knowing whether the bastard misses him as bad as Hans does.
And then, each time Henry returns to him, two crucial things dawn upon Capon’s head: one, he needs to remember there are books that speak of love he dares not voice himself. Two: he might not agree with absence making the heart fonder, but it sure does make his cock ache.
From Nebakov to Suchdol, a study of the times Hans missed Henry—and the times they reunited. Canon compliant; filling in the gaps.
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- Part 2 of Infaustus
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06 May 2026