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Sister Rosario thought she knew Pope Innocent rather well, until the impossible happens.
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10 Jan 2026
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If I ever married by JustPaulInHere for Atheneeerva
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
28 Dec 2025
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Thomas gaze turns suspicious. "How much do you know?"
"That depends. What do you think you know?" answers Aldo.Or : Vincent has more than one lover and it creates mischief and Chaos.
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30 Dec 2025
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In Dei Nomine by coulometric_titration
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
07 Jan 2026
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As the Thirty Years' war inches closer to an end, a group of influential people gathers at a monastery deep in the Bavarian forest: The future of Europe will be shaped by them.
Father Vincent Benítez finds himself embroiled in politics and scheming against his own will. Navigating a war-torn Europe is hard enough; navigating his own heart is even harder as he gets to know these people - especially an exiled English priest.
A lifetime at war and an impending peace: it's 1648, Vincent has a secret and a papal mandate. His heart ignores both of those facts.
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20 Dec 2025
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Love is a fire that consumes all that is not God.
- St. Catherine of Siena
They say Pope John XXIV loved a man so deeply he made him a saint.
They say that in doing so, he ruined them both.
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13 Dec 2025
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“Aldo. What happened?” He said into the speaker, fog abandoning his mind only to be replaced by a quickly-developing anxiety.
“May the Lord help us, Thomas,” Aldo replied. His voice was shaking. There were other agitated voices in the background he couldn’t make out.
His friend’s next words made the world stop turning.“There has been an attack on the Pope.”
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Following Vincent's assassination attempt, Thomas decides to aid him during his recovery. Time may heal more than simple physical wounds.
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- Part 1 of The day disaster struck
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13 Dec 2025
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From the moment he first stepped out onto the balcony in St. Peter’s Square as Innocent XIV, Vincent Benítez knew that the days of his papacy were numbered. And yet, when a costly mistake forces him to resign, he doesn’t come prepared for the grief the loss of his office causes him.
Thomas Lawrence naively liked to think that he wouldn’t live to see the end of Innocent’s papacy. He never could have imagined that he, of all people, would be the one responsible for it.
Lost and with their hearts filled with both guilt and unexplored desires, they struggle to navigate the shambles of the life they knew. They find refuge in a place where they least expect it – an old, ramshackle farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, that’s just as desperate for love and forgiveness as them.
Or: The one where Vincent and Thomas get the retirement they both deserve and finally allow themselves to love each other.
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12 Dec 2025
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“You haven’t seen all of the Basilica yet, have you?” He asked the Pope.
“No, not besides where we celebrate and get ready for mass,” Vincent explained. “Especially not while all of the tourists are around.”
Tonight, though, the Basilica was near empty, besides the rehearsing choir and a handful of priests, nuns, and coordinators flitting around the space to prepare. It was a rare peaceful evening in the grand cathedral.
Thomas looked around for a second, then back at Vincent, a mischievous glint in his eye.
“Follow me,” he said.
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11 Dec 2025
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Be Strong and Of Good Courage by WaitingCliffside
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
12 Jun 2025
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Janusz keeps pacing in front of Vincent's door late at night as he grapples with his grief for the late Holy Father. An unlikely friendship-turned-romance ensues.
Or: Janusz needs help, and Vincent refuses to give up on him.
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18 Nov 2025
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I just wanna be with you by BellaTriesToWrite
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
07 Nov 2025
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It’s all about you and the lust of your flesh and the lure of your mind.
Or the AU where Thomas gets in a few (lot of) problems because he falls in love with Vincent, who is 30 years younger than him and his student. Vincent it’s more than happy with all of this.
Or Thomas is on a night out with Ray, Goffredo and Aldo celebrating Bellitesco’s engagement and they meet Vincent and everything that happens after that.
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09 Nov 2025
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29 Oct 2025
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A month after the Conclave, Vincent Benítez, now Pope Innocent XIV, gets stuck in an elevator. It's not the kind of event that should have the potential to derail his entire pontificate, but it has. When the demons from his past come bursting into the Apostolic Palace and shake up a lot of well-established routines and certainties, it falls to a very unlikely alliance of friends, both old and new, to mount the defence and drive them back out. In the process, Thomas Lawrence learns things about their new Pope that he would not have imagined in his wildest dreams, and he finally finds the courage to be more to him than just another faithful servant.
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26 Sep 2025
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“You’d like him, you know,” Thomas said.
“I do like him,” Aldo said automatically, twirling the stem of his wine glass, looking into its deep red like it was a scrying mirror.
“I mean as a friend. If you spent more time with him. You have a lot in common.”
“Do we use the same shampoo?” asked Aldo, raising an eyebrow. Thomas gave him a warning look but his mouth was tugging up.
“You’re both stubborn,” he said bluntly.
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Cardinals like Thomas Lawrence and Aldo Bellini know all too well how slowly things move within the walls of the Vatican. But with Vincent Benítez's election cracking their world open, and the new Pope cutting away the old branches to make room for the new, both find that change is flooding in everywhere, mostly within themselves.
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23 Sep 2025
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Finally, they arrive at the homily. Benítez is much briefer than his predecessor. And yet, his speech feels fuller, somehow. He pins them all under the darkness of his gaze. When his eyes land on Aldo, he feels as if Benítez has stripped him bare, that he can see the horrible, green monster that writhes beneath his breast. He speaks of love and light, a desire to move them forward into the future while paying homage to the past. Aldo feels trapped in that damned vote, watching the world crumble under his feet.
The morning after Vincent Benítez is elected Pope Innocent XIV, Aldo Bellini attends morning mass. He tries to grapple with the scale of everything he's lost to Benítez: his role as Secretary of State, the Papacy, and Thomas Lawrence.
Or, the one where Aldo is still sore about the conclave, and he has to navigate his new place in the Curia while trying to sort out his feelings for Thomas and Vincent. They all have feelings about this, separately, and then together.
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- Part 1 of Salva Me
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20 Sep 2025
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Thomas woke up in a hospital room, confused and disoriented. For some reason he can't seem to stop upsetting Vincent.
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20 Sep 2025
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Faithful to the end by Artiesile for Juniperly, strangepremonition
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
10 Sep 2025
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Aldo realizes after the conclave that he has lost much more than the position of Pope, someone has taken Thomas's heart and it is not him.
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16 Sep 2025
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My Sense of Wonder's Just a Little Tired by Internerdionality
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
09 Sep 2025
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“May I ask you a personal question? You do not have to answer, of course.”
Lawrence's eyebrows rose. Given some of the subjects they’d already discussed, he scarcely dared wonder what the Holy Father might consider overly personal. “My dear Vincent, of course. Whatever you wish to ask me, please go ahead.”
Benítez smiled. “I was simply wondering. Are you and Cardinal Bellini... intimate friends?”
“Of—of course not!” Lawrence stuttered, knowing his face and chest had to be breaking out in splotches of bright red color, and hating it. “What an absurd thing to say! I—I haven't... I would not—”
Benítez just raised his own eyebrows, seemingly unmoved by Lawrence’s outburst. “Why not?”
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- Part 1 of Inty's Conclave Works
- Part 1 of Are We Destined to Burn or Will We Last the Night?
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14 Sep 2025
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In the week leading up to Easter, the Vatican's most carefully guarded routines begin to crack under the weight of an unspoken revelation. A Swiss Guard watches as something sacred begins to unravel.
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- Part 1 of La Folia
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07 Sep 2025
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Lamb of God, have mercy on us. by VincentScott
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
02 Sep 2025
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His eyes were -in an exaggerated shot- about to pop out. His mouth was trembling, embarrassedly he covers it with his hand to keep his teeth from biting his tongue.
"You can drink from me if that bothers you, it doesn't have to be in the neck, I wouldn't let my Dean starve to death."
But what a silly proposal, he means. Surrendering like a lamb to be slaughtered.
"No, I wouldn't do that to you."
He touches the silver cross to burn away the growing desire that floods in. Need is a nasty thing.
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04 Sep 2025
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A few months into Innocent's papacy, an incident arises where not enough beds are provided for the Pope's traveling companions. Rather than force Thomas to sleep on a couch or go to a hotel, Vincent insists they share the large bed provided to them.
What they don't expect, however, is to find out how touch-starved they both are and how wonderful it feels to fall asleep in each other's arms.
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04 Sep 2025
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De profundis by coulometric_titration
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
18 Jul 2025
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Thomas is interrupted from his work - the first somewhat free Saturday since the Conclave and even if he's done a lot, there's still work to be caught up on. Then the pope calls and Thomas goes to him as he always does, leaving plans for seating arrangements and a lonely evening behind.
The Papal Apartement contains one (1) emotional pope and a cardboard box it does not usually contain... that sets off a series of events - some unexpected, some expected, some good, some bad.Bookmarked by TheGD
21 Aug 2025