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Rating: SAFE
Fandom: raven cycle
Relationship: gansey/ronan
Tags: power dynamics, miscommunication, dom/sub undertones
Wordcount: 100 / 100 on AO3
Notes: for the prompt, which is almost as long as the drabble itself: "you dont want to hurt me but i am asking you to hurt me. i need you to stab me. i need you to carve this out of me. i need you to cut something off of me. this will hurt both of us in incredible ways. yours are the only hands i trust enough to wield this knife. you do not want to hurt me. i am asking you to hurt me.
Summary:
Excerpt:
Gansey had held out his hand, with the intention of lifting him up in his palm, and Ronan had put a knife in it instead.
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Ronan was asking him to hurt him.
The very reason Gansey had accepted the deal was so that he could show Ronan all the good things he was worth—all the softness and the care and the light he so often ran from, ashamed, afraid.
He had held out his hand, with the intention of lifting him up in his palm, and Ronan had put a knife in it instead—by the blade, so that only his own fingers would get cut in the process.
Gansey had understood it was about trust. He accepted the knife. He didn’t like it.