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When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.
Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.
Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.
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16 Feb 2026
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Rightly do I love you by IrisCleverole
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
23 Nov 2025
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Thomas had been mesmerized by that gaze since the very start, when the Holy Father, then Cardinal Vincent Benítez, had looked up at him in that small room in the Santa Marta, hands clasped gently in his lap, with nothing to his name but a few official documents. Thomas had felt his heart skip a beat when those kind yet strong, unyielding eyes had settled into his own, Vincent’s lips quirking upwards just so.
At the end of the Conclave, Thomas Lawrence had thought the worst to be behind him. But, apparently, God wasn't entirely done with him yet. First, he'd had to deal with the late Holy Father denying his resignation. Then with Adeyemi and Tremblay nearly toppling the Church over. And now...now Thomas had fallen in love with the Pope.
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04 Feb 2026
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“I wouldn’t call it a crush,” he begins, bracing himself for the storm. Be calm, he tells himself. God is with you.
“You wouldn’t?” Lawrence squeaks. His eyes are wide, searching. Vincent would spare a thought for his beauty, if he had any to spare in the first place.
“No.” Vincent shakes his head and sets his teacup down. “I would say that I am in love with you.”
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Or, a companion fic to the love I’m given, from Vincent’s POV.
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- Part 2 of the only way to heal now
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31 Jan 2026
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Cardinal Lawrence faces the aftermath of the conclave.
It goes like this: he understands his duties, and understands his new position in the Vatican. He unable to understand what he is feeling.
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28 Aug 2025
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A Lesson in Dari by bennyboyTallmadge
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
07 Dec 2025
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During his first summer in Rome, Vincent Benítez works himself to the brink of exhaustion trying to fill his new role as Pope. Only reluctantly, he agrees to spend ten days at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. There are two problems, however: Vincent is terrible at being alone, and he's terrible at having nothing to do. Luckily, Thomas is in dire need of a holiday, too, and more than willing to keep him company.
Or: The summer get-away fic in which Vincent teaches Thomas to speak Dari and opens his heart to him along the way.
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17 Aug 2025