Lucius climbed up the fucking barnacles and has been using them as his sole source of sustenance ever since, this is part of his Arc, they were Chekhov’s Barnacles
Our Flag Means Death → We Gull Way Back
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
Characters: Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach
Additional Tags: First Time, Gentle, worried, this is supposed to be easy right?, all the stories said it would be easy, when it was really love, so why is Stede so absolutely terrified?
Summary:
“Hey. Hey, in there. You’re all locked up in your head.”
Ed’s voice is soft, and Stede closes his eyes and leans his head back against the pillow and tries very hard to catch his breath.
“Um. Sorry. This isn’t typical for me.”
It’s tricky to get the words out, which certainly isn’t him. He’s short of breath, weirdly and wildly nervous. But he’s got to calm down because he really does want to be here doing this, he really, really does, and Ed’s hand feels very nice under Stede’s shirt, tracing back and forth along his midriff, and every time it glides over his navel he wants to bite the air, so he needs to not screw this up.
Calm. Calm, calm, calm. Cool blue ocean. But it’s a bit tricky, given that this is certainly not how this whole thing has ever felt before. How… sex has ever felt before.
episode 7 has a missing scene where after they agree to be co-captains and they've had their nightcap ed turns to stede and is like
"lucius told me you did this for me"
and stede is afraid even without fully knowing why, caught out and embarrassed and ready for rejection and ed continues like -
"it was cool. no one's ever planned a thing like that for me. but listen. listen."
and stede is listening, ready, waiting -
"i hate nature. i hate nature so fucking much. plants are fucking diabolical with their roots and vines and snakes that look like vines and god forbid all the fucking insects so listen. listen. don't ever. take me outside again. not on land. we could have had a nap man."
and stede is now trying not to laugh because he is taking this seriously, ed is communicating a strict boundary with him, but his voice is sulky and he's gesticulating and the look on his face -
"right, quite right, it is a bit - undignified -"
"abso-fucking-lutely. totally outside our fucking dignity, to be tromping around like landlubbers."
"but napping, really? i thought you would be looking for an adventure, is all?"
"psh. what's more adventurous than a nap on this fucking couch, mate, on this ship? you ever tried to sit down for ten minutes, get a good nap in? 's like all the problems in the world come rushing in the second you try for a nap."
"you know, i've never considered it in that light. it would be a bit of an adventure, trying to find enough peace and quiet for a nap, wouldn't it?"
"that's what i'm saying!"
and thus many adventures in competitive napping (aka napping together but its not gay its a competition we swear) were had.
“We start filming hopefully I think by October, and we’re gonna shoot in New Zealand. We shot the last one in LA. Weird place to try and do something all on the ocean, so we’re gonna go down to New Zealand which is surrounded by it. That’s one of the things I’m most excited about for the next year.” –Taika Waititi
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