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Excerpt from current chapter im working on For the Love Of

“I, on the other hand, have never experienced it.” Randvi looked from Eivor to the lovers. “I will run interference from the outside.” Her eyes returned again to Eivor, who seemed as affected by the information as they had so many years ago. “You would be surprised at how many people want to experience a high like this. Idiots aren’t the only ones.” “Honestly it’s not so bad when you have someone to share it with.” Brona pointed out. She looked from Eivor to Randvi, then back again. “I find it steals a lot of the fun out of playtime.” Kassandra commented. “You are so compelled to just do the mechanics that all the creative things go out the window.” Brona hummed, batting long lashes at her partner. “Sometimes the mechanics are what you crave.” Kassandra grunted, and they shared that telling look again. Eivor’s brow furrowed as she shook her head. “I should be getting ready.” Randvi pulled herself slowly from Eivor’s arms. “You both should.” Brona said, giving them both pause. “What?” Eivor asked as she slid off the stool and stood in Randvi’s arms. “You should both get ready.” Brona reiterated. “Unless you don’t want to go?”

“What could I do that you can’t do better?” Brona laughed, her hand coming to Eivor’s shoulder. “So many things. Especially if your partner is exposed to the tears.”

A Padawan A Wolf and A Baby (pwb for short) is a time-travel story where Ahsoka and Sabine take a wrong turn while using the World Between Worlds to find Ezra. They wind up in the Clone Wars era in their younger bodies. Kanan’s spirit has been watching over his family, and he follows Ahsoka and Sabine into the past.

And if Hot Priest wasn’t a Catholic celibate priest, the two of them would’ve had to navigate whether to have sex instantly from when they met, as Fleabag does with everyone, even after her self-imposed sex hiatus. She even tries to sleep with Belinda within hours of meeting her, and fucks Mr. Nine Orgasm Esq. on date one, despite promising Claire she wouldn’t. His celibacy and his misunderstanding of her circumstances gave them time to get to know one another and spend time together without sex, offering Fleabag her first opportunity to even consider vulnerability, let alone intimacy, since losing Boo.

Even more remarkably, PWB allows them to develop this intimacy without spending the currency of revelation. Over and over, Fleabag has the opportunity to confess, or even just allude to, her shame about Boo’s death. But as they meet and talk, at the cafe, even in the literal confessional, Fleabag discloses pain and confusion and fear, but if she had spoken about Boo, her attachment to HP could have fallen into a dynamic based more on exposure and catharsis, putting her in a vulnerability debt premature for the length of their relationship. The confession that matters most in that moment—what allows them to transgress his vow—is not an admission of shame that he must absolve her from but a confession that what has been drawing them together until now was false. Revealing that it was Claire’s miscarriage took HP out of counselor role—he’s absolved from his responsibility, leaving only his vow to keep them from following their overt attraction. By holding Boo sacred for herself, Fleabag maintained enough boundary to allow her love to blossom not just out of gratitude but based on her own experience with HP. She gets to experience his own messy and even problematic behavior—his drinking, his tactlessness (asking Claire and Martin about their sobriety when they clearly didn’t want to talk about it), how own lack of effective boundaries with Fleabag, knowing that she was into him—alongside all that she finds beautiful and alluring about him.