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🪐 — EDWARD TEACH  for  stede !

if only he weren’t so ridiculously spellbound,   then yes,  he would manage to free himself rather quick.  a well placed kick,  or maybe just a knee,  and stede would probably go down  —  but this is hardly him sparring,  is it?  the real thing has never been this meek.  edward teach doesn’t just give up without fighting until the end,  and yet he is rendered harmless without even a blade against his throat.  stede is not helping matters,  on his part,  keeping up that talk.  he clearly doesn’t know what mess he is making of edward’s brain.  and it’s bloody unfair of him.  absolutely maddening.   ‘  yeah,  that’s right  —  you won,  stede.  why don’t you just kiss me and be done with it?  ’   damn his tongue,  too loose and disconnected from his brain to function as it should.  he will claim to have taken a nonexistent blow to the head,  if this goes south.  because surely that’s going to work. 

   IT MUST BE A TRAP.  that’s the first thing he thinks  — that this will be just like back in his boarding school days, when nigel had tricked him into french-kissing one of the stable horses in front of everyone.   &  the long-ago quieted laughter of his classmates echoes in his ears as stede recoils back a step, forcing some distance between them as his face flushes hot with embarrassment.  ❝ what ?  but i wasn’t  —  i didn’t mean — ❞  his blade drops at his side, the duel entirely forgotten,  &  stede’s eyes follows it to the finely lacquered deck, suddenly unable to look ed in the face.  in the past, denial has always suited him best, but his sudden nerves make the words overflow disconnectedly from his lips.  ❝ i’ve never  —  well, it’s not that i’ve  never.  but mary  &  i,  we didn’t often  —  she didn’t seem to  —  ❞  &  even stede can tell he’s babbling now, cutting himself off mid-sentence with a dry laugh.  ❝ that is to say, i didn’t expect that  kissing  would be part of our captaining lessons.  i thought that pirates were usually so busy raiding  &  dueling each other that they had little time left over for such... activities ? ❞