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Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Israel Hands, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Belly Kink, Stuffing, Fat Stede Bonnet, Chubby Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Hand Feeding, Feeding Kink, Food Kink, Belly Rubs, Suicidal Thoughts, That's mainly chapter 1 and sort of lighthearted, Internalized Fatphobia, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Series: Part 2 of Unmasked! Universe Summary:

Ed is bored. With his life, with how he has to live, all of it. One man keeps him doing what he’s still doing and is liable to keep doing until he dies, and it’s definitely not Izzy, who’s getting more volatile by the day. It’s one Stede Bonnet, the aristocrat he met at a masquerade ball he crashed and told he’d be at sea if he ever changed his mind on running away with him. When Izzy tells him he’s got work to do, he drags his feet. Until he finds out who’s on the tiny ship Izzy wouldn't let him leave alone. He’s really going to have to play his cards right as nothing goes as planned for their utterly unromantic reunion.

For clarity, this fic takes place around 3-4 months after Unmasked! ends. the prior work is complete but this work references that one heavily and leans on its premise.

"I was not afraid."

Her hands still feel like they're trembling. His voice is drowned out, muffled by the throbbing of blood behind her ears and the drumming of a restless heart. Shadowheart cannot even bear the weight of his gaze. The softness of it may seek to break her.

How was she supposed to know these damnable gith knew how to tame wolves? Of all the rotten creatures they could have faced. It had to be wolves.

"Don't coddle me, Wyll. You know just as well as I that fear is nothing but a weakness." Where she comes from, weakness is not tolerated. She was forged to be dauntless. Unflinching.

Hesitation is a stain on her Dark Lady's name.