The King. The Courtesan. The Physician. Everyone is using someone.
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Minor spoilers for Valiant.  The players are Uther/OFC and Gaius set around five years before the series starts. It's not a romance.  Warning for enforced termination.  PG-13 for non-explicit sex and adult themes. 3,200 words.

( You are not the first and you will not be the last. )

I’m writing a rather cold and pragmatic Gaius atm, perhaps in reaction to the kindly mentor Gaius fics I’ve read recently. I’m sure I’m being a bit unfair, but really there’s a decades and decades of murky undisclosed past going on with Gaius.

I do like the character and firmly believe that his role as dedicated healer to Camelot is a very real one ( Read more... )