New Fic: Watching (OFMD)
Another OFMD fic I posted recently on AO3
Title: Watching
Summary: during season one, Ed develops a habit of sneaking in to watch Stede sleep. It scratches an itch he didn't know he had. Unfortunately, a lifetime of being bullied has provided Stede with an infallible sense of when someone is watching him.
Read it on AO3
Excerpt:
Stede’s acting skills kicked in full force—feeling instinctively that to lay completely silent and still was a dead giveaway, he instead rolled over slightly and threw an arm up over his head, conveniently close to the handle of the dagger, before snoring again.
The presence across the room froze for so long that Stede began to think he’d imagined it, but finally he heard a quiet step coming towards him. Then another. Whoever it was hadn’t even taken off their boots. They sounded too light on their feet to be Ed or Fang. Definitely Izzy, Stede thought.
He waited until the person was very close, took a long slow breath, and then in an instant grabbed his dagger and lunged.
“Avast ye!” he cried, the point of the dagger digging into someone’s flesh. “What say you, you brigand?”
Watching - megzseattle - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
