Fic: For @jonphaedrus, Christmas Prompt 1/5, Giovanni Lives AU: Giovanni x Lorenzo, E-Rated, One Shot, Excerpt:

“You’re tired,” Mario told him, once Giovanni walked to the desk. “Go and sleep.” Mario had grown stout and bearlike instead of lean and tall like Giovanni, and his face was craggy with scars. As Giovanni stared, Mario scratched under his eyepatch, yawning. He’d been roused out of bed, and was still rumpled in an old doublet, hastily pulled on. Silver was creeping into his dark, short-cropped hair, just like the silver in Giovanni’s. They were two ageing eagles, unhappy at roost.

“I’ve tried.” Claudia and Petruccio had slept instantly, but he’d left Ezio comforting Maria and Federico stabling their lathered horses.

“Your gear?”

“Still in the secret room in the house.”

Thanks for your prompt! :3 I'll get around to that point soon - I hope you don't mind me subsuming it into an old WIP that I had started work on (in 2010 lol!). Ezio is a vampire in the fic, and will definitely get around to courting human! Leonardo. 

I've put the fic and a new update up on AO3 for reading convenience (stay tuned? :3)