New Fic Alert: Encordés 🪢 🧗 🏔️
Verso/Gustave · Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · Explicit · 17 chapters (complete, will update twice weekly)
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🎨 The stunning cover art is by my beloved @shinpm — who is also the entire reason this fic exists (she said "mountain Verstave" on vacation and I lost my mind). This one's for you, always <3
Ahem. Another funny story 😅 This was also supposed to be a 'little one-shot'. "Sexy climbing dude Gustave gets rescued by hot mountain rescuer Verso, they make out in the hospital, the end."
Very brief. Very sensible. Anyway, here is a multi-chapter slow burn:
encordés (French, mountaineering, plural): roped together; tied to a partner on the same rope, so that if one of you falls, the other can hold the line.
Gustave is an experienced climber. When a route in the French Alps goes wrong, he expects broken bones and weeks of gruesome recovery. What he does not expect is, instead, to fall, slowly and catastrophically, for the unfairly attractive mountain rescuer who keeps visiting his hospital room.
But Verso carries his own scars, and Gustave has learned the hard way that being wanted means hiding the parts of himself that are broken, and that leaving first hurts less than being left behind.
This is a story about concussed flirting, scars and second chances, about being seen completely — and two stubborn idiots learning that the rope works in both directions.
Enjoy!!! 💖
✨ Read Chapter 1 here ✨
