Rare Male Slash Exchange reveals

[regshoe]

I requested all obscure Victorian novel ships for RMSE, and have received this very nice story for Armadale. I've quietly shipped this since I first read the novel some years ago, and it's lovely to see some fic for it!

Not Yet (1525 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Allan Armadale/Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Characters: Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale, Allan Armadale
Additional Tags: 19th Century, Pining, Friendship/Love, Shipwrecks, Boats and Ships, Late at Night, Attraction, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary:

I did not care for what others might have thought of me, and I could not spare the presence of mind to reflect on it myself: all of me was ever focussed on the moment, and now, the moment was this: La Grâce de Dieu, the limpid, honeyed glow of the moon, the two of us on a strange ship, her timber trade secrets long laid to rest and hardly more exciting than the fact that he had just been clutching fast at my shoulder with his steady hand.

Unbeknownst to Ozias Midwinter, Allan Armadale, too, has a lot of complicated feelings about their relationship.