Routine Testing

Fantasy short. An anxious angel reluctantly gets an STI test.

Johannes T. Evans

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8.7k, rated M. The angel Beau reluctantly gets an STI test; Aoife and Colleen go to a local brothel to do tests. Beauregard Horvasse, Aoife Harkin, and Colleen Pike in this one.

References to sexual violence and trauma throughout.

The Caer Afon Magical Hospital was somewhat better laid out than the London Royal — it hadn’t been built on and built on and expanded and expanded, not to the same extent that the Royal had. Beau was disappointed when first he stepped into its corridors and began making his way up and down them, finding that they weren’t as twisting or labyrinthine as either those in the London Royal or those in the Bayett Inn hotel’s cellar corridors.

He had been warned by Mr Franke, who had processed his application and brought him onto the staff, of the challenging nature of the corridors, but there was no such challenge here. He had never worked in another hospital but this one, Beau didn’t think. He had no basis of comparison.

The cellar corridors of the hospital, which ran primarily between the mortuary, the incinerator, and the laundry, were cooler and darker than those above ground, and Beau appreciated that, even if they weren’t as twisting and arcane as he might like. It was more comfortable in…

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Johannes T. Evans

Gay trans man writing fantasy fiction, romance, and erotica. Big on LGBTQ and disability themes, plus occasional essays and analysis. He/him.