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1. and an acre before us by pintpotjudas

   Fandoms: Conclave (2024)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Aldo Bellini/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini (Conclave)
   • Secret Relationship
   • Internalised Homophobia
   • Catholic Guilt
   • Thomas Lawrence's awful childhood
   • Thomas Lawrence's wonderful sister
   • English Catholicism is a different breed
   • catholic aristocrats
   • Friends with Consequences
   • every OC in this story has the wildest name possible and i will not apologise
   • headcanons
   • Angst
   • Oblivious Thomas Lawrence
   • sweeping gothic landscapes
   • Disappointing sex
   • non graphic descriptions of child neglect/abuse
   • homophobic parent
   • Homophobic Language
   • Domestic Violence
   • ghosts??
   • Feelings Realisation
   • Life Affirming Sex
   • Using your words

   Summary

   it is the mid nineties and thomas's horrible father is dead. he and his sister are emptying their ancestral home in remote northumberland, and not for the first time, a roman invades.

   (or thomas and aldo's situationship comes to a head)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   35,495

   Chapters:

   4/5

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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