O.RE.SA-MIAN

Title: A Tale Of Malta
Author: sevenswells
Beta: breathtaken
Rating: Mature
Fandom/Pairing: The Musketeers (2014), Athos/Aramis
Warnings/Tropes: Fake Relationship, sex in a hammam, erotic asphyxiation, mild Stockholm Syndrome
Summary: Athos and Aramis are sent to Malta on a delicate mission where the odds are decidedly stacked against them, involving a French aristocrat made hostage, pirates of the Mediterranean Sea, and Turkish baths.
Notes: Credits for the cover picture go to sweetrupturedlight on tumblr (original post here : http://sweetrupturedlight.tumblr.com/post/81175880240 ) who kindly gave me their permission to use it and associate it with this fic.
This fic is for the lovely evildrem who asked for Athos/Aramis porn and I had this nagging idea about Turkish baths, so I asked the marvellous and precious berylia for help and on the spot she whipped up super awesome ideas with Malta and pirates and Turks, so you have her to thank for the fact that there’s an actual plot in this fic – of course it is also dedicated to her.
As always, all my thanks to my beta breathtaken/crabsandlobsters, I consider myself extremely lucky to have her support.
I loved writing this, to me it’s the perfect summer fic: travel and exoticism and sunny places and pirates and political intrigue! Huzzah!
Word count: 7 635

Also available on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1924989

( Génétique en bandoulière / Des chromosomes dans l'atmosphère / Des taxis pour les galaxies / Et mon tapis volant dit / Le vent nous portera )

Title: The Cupbearer
Author: sevenswells
Beta: the amazing breathtaken/crabsandlobsters on tumblr, she did the best possible job on this
Rating: Mature (PG-15)
Fandom/Pairing: BBC The Musketeers (2014)/d'Artagnan Romances (Three Musketeers series), Olivier de la Fère (Athos)/a statue
Warnings: Agalmatophilia (sexual desire for statues), masturbation
Summary: A 15-year-old Athos (known then as Olivier de la Fère) explores his sexuality, at a time when magazines with photos of naked men didn't exist.
Comments: This may look a lot like crack, but it's actual canon from Dumas' Twenty Years After, where Athos admits to d'Artagnan that he fell in love with a Greek statue when he was 15: "I remember that at the age of Raoul I had become amorous of a Greek statue that the good King Henry IV had given to my father, and that I thought I should become insane with grief when they told me that the story of Pygmalion was only a fable.".

What I found interesting in that story is that neither the subject nor even the gender of the statue was defined, so I made the statue male, and I wanted to explore this idea of Athos discovering his sexual preferences with that statue. I chose Ganymede as the subject because Zeus/Ganymede is the epitome of the homosexual relationship in ancient times, and also because Ganymede's function as a cupbearer to me is sort of a foreshadowing of Athos' problems with alcohol (and in the end, it all has to do with love, it's very symbolical).

Word count: 2 398 w.

Also available on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1485589

( A heart of stone, a smoking gun / I can give you life, I can take it away )