#phillibarnum

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facade peeled like a sunburn | phillip carlyle/p.t. barnum, rated NC-17 for sex. the greatest showman.

pwp. phineas finds out firsthand why it is phillip was known as "a bit of a scandal".

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“You know,” Phineas started, fingers brushing the hair at Phillip’s temple, “Charity told me you were a bit of a scandal.”

Phillip, on his end, found it difficult not to laugh. “Did she?”

“Oh, yeah.” Lying nude on his side in Phillip’s bed, callused fingers stroking Phillip’s scalp and ruffling his hair out of place, Phineas gave him a smile both lethargic and bright. Eager. He squirmed just a bit, chest pressing up into Phillip’s equally naked side. “You were at my goddaughter’s ballet recital, we saw you across the room, and she told me just that.”

Phillip hummed thoughtfully, the arm slung loosely over Phineas’ waist tightening its grip enough to pull him closer. “Did you believe her?” he asked, head tilting down and to the side to look at him. Phineas’ hand moved from Phillip’s hair down to the edge of his jaw where his stubble was coming in, and his index finger fiddled with the lobe of his ear.

“You were drinking quite a bit,” Phineas whispered conspiratorially.

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been looking so hard | phillip carlyle/p.t. barnum, rated R for references to sex. the greatest showman.

phillip convinces himself it's normal to stare at the ringmaster that came before him. written for @barnumxcarlyle.

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Phillip thinks he has a little problem.

But at least it isn't a huge, life-ruining problem. He's still happy. His family's started to accept his lot in life. And since the regenesis of the circus, it's been running more or less as smooth as the finest butter. As smooth as the creamiest milk. As smooth as, dare he say, Phineas' dance moves.

Phineas' firm steps. Phineas' rolling hips. Phineas' bouncing shoulders, and thick arms, and bright smile and pirouettes and long strides and...

Yeah, okay. It's more than a little problem.

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dazzling | phillip carlyle/p.t. barnum, rated NC-17 for sex. the greatest showman.

pwp. phineas was beautiful and phillip couldn't look away.

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Phineas always stood with confidence in his step— power, joy, lights glimmering in his eyes as much as they glimmered around him. He was a marvel to see, washed in royal red and glittering gold, was a bigger marvel to hear with a voice that filled a room with hope and wonder and magic just bursting at the seams.

But here, now—Phillip watching as he hovered over Phineas’ form, eyes wide in awe and breath caught in his chest—his ringmaster looked soft and vulnerable. Looked for all the world (with his swollen lips and his fluttering lashes and cheeks turned pink with want) like a boy who’d never been touched before.

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wonderboy, what is the secret of your power? | phillip carlyle/p.t. barnum, rated NC-17 for sex. the greatest showman.

the visiting prince to the carlyles' castle turns out not to be a prince after all. he also happens to be a vampire. written for @barnumxcarlyle.

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“This is fake, then.” Phillip’s voice was soft, but Phineas’ jaw felt uncharacteristically hot all the same (hot, like he had blood to warm it; hot, like he had a heart that made it flow inside). It’d all been going smoothly, this—pretending to be a prince, gaining the King’s favour, eventually becoming the hero to every single Other in the kingdom—and then Phineas had gone and killed on the premises of his castle.

Had it been his fault? He’d argue “no”. He’d say that the fact that someone allowed a kitten within a ten metre radius of where Phineas had been walking was outside of his control. He’d say that had the kitten not been bleeding, not been trailing red over the impeccable floors of the grand hallway, then none of this would have happened. It wasn’t his fault. He couldn’t help his nature.

But it was his nature that had Phillip seeing through him like glass in a shop window.

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Why did Napolean march on Russia? Napoleon was defeated. Napoleon didn’t have a 60-piece orchestra.