(Written for Comorbidities' prompt on Tumblr and Stars' "Take Me To The Riot": saturday nights in neon lights, sunday in the cell.)

Finny and Gene after VE Day.

(People wouldn't do it if it didn't feel good.)

Iris only sees him once after that.

There's a kind of unlucky energy in him when he's at rest, something at work inside of John of which he's only the feverish engine; the heat in him stirs when they are as close as this and she doesn't know what to do with it.

Anne has got some stuff to work through about becoming queen, and Richard is an obliging audience.

Faustus has a number of persistent questions, chiefly concerning sex in Heaven.

An alleyway encounter between long-lost lovers on opposite sides of the war.

(For the Star Wars Rare Ships Challenge over on Pillowfort!)

Or, some meta in which many words are spent on Early Victorian bathing, shaving, skincare, and lube.

Baldwin is ill, but this is nothing new.