The Hired Man, Part Eight, AU Spangel

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What do you do when you've lost your faith and your life is a painful lie?


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Previously: "...Will?"

In a tiny voice, a thin thread of sound between the two of them and the steamy water, Will begged, "Please--"

Dark eyes dilated and stared deeply into Will's as Reverend Liam rubbed the soap down, laving Will. The Reverend looked dazed, as if he was somehow under a spell. He dropped the soap a second time and it was his big, gentle hand that encircled Will so that Will bent forward, clutching Liam--

"Did I... Are you feeling better?"

betaed by kitty_poker1
incorporates the prompt "inertia" from tamingthemuse
Liam/William NC 17 eventually, maybe
Around the late 1890s, small prairie town
*quotes used for Will's reading lesson are from Ranier Maria Rilke's Letters To A Young Poet, which is more recent than the setting of this story, but I couldn't resist using it since it spoke to the theme.

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The Hired Man, Part 8