Gerald Poole & the Pirates: Part III
Amongst pirates, Wicks and Poole discover more about one another.
A little bit of adventure, romance, and queerness in the 18th century Mediterranean!
An adaptation of my TweetFic, Gerald Poole & the Pirates. This part is 9k in length.
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV
Content warnings: consent issues throughout for sexual threats, violence, period-typical racism and homophobia, self-esteem and identity issues.
In this chapter, in-depth discussion of institutionalized racism typical of the period, discussions of homophobia, and ableism`- specifically in this chapter there’s a scene where one NT guy roughly explains ADHD to another, and his explanation is accepting, but extremely blunt and couched in language that’s not especially kind.
That night, Gerald slept against the barrel chest of Second Lieutenant Jack Wicks, and found that he let out such stupendous heat he might as well have been a furnace.
It was divine.
He was frustrated, somewhat — since he went to sea he’d scarcely had a moment truly alone to comb his hair, let alone bring himself off, and it seemed as though Thwaites got a good deal of pleasure from winding him up, only to delight in watching…
