Ruin the Friendship

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• Ruin the Friendship by meg_ofmd

  Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  04 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Stede Bonnet
  • mary allamby
  • Evelyn Higgins
  • Fang (Our Flag Means Death)
  • Ivan (Our Flag Means Death)
  • "Calico" Jack Rackham
  • Mother Teach (Our Flag Means Death)
  • Alternate Universe - High School
  • High School AU
  • Prom
  • Graduation
  • Small Towns
  • early 2000s
  • Mutual Pining
  • Angst and Romance
  • First Love
  • Coming of Age
  • what if
  • missed kisses
  • Soulmate-Like Connections
  • Ed Teach is in love with Stede Bonnet
  • Stede Bonnet is in love with Ed Teach
  • mutual pining idiots
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • toxic parents
  • Family Issues
  • Bad Parents
  • Protective Mothers
  • DysFUNctional families
  • Found Family
  • teenage angst
  • closet gay character
  • Slow Burn
  • Unresolved Romantic Tension
  • Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • First Crush
  • Love Confessions
  • Missed Opportunities
  • time skip
  • Reunion That Never Happened
  • stuffed animals
  • Heavy Angst
  • Yearning
  • Sad Ending
  • Funeral
  • inspired by Ruin the Friendship by Taylor Swift
  • Mention of pot
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Alcohol Abuse
  • No Beta
  • Whump
  • Our Flag Means Death Whumptober
  • Songfic
  • Implied/Referenced Homophobia

  Summary

  Ed Teach spends high school wishing he was brave enough to kiss his best friend. Twenty-five years later, he still wonders what might have been.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Ruin the Friendship

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,864

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  28

  Kudos:

  49

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  382

• Ruin the Friendship: Part II by meg_ofmd

  Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  26 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
  • Israel Hands
  • Lucius Spriggs
  • Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death)
  • Buttons (Our Flag Means Death)
  • Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death)
  • Mother Teach (Our Flag Means Death)
  • Mary Allamby Bonnet
  • Modern AU
  • Restaurant owner Ed
  • Fisherman/Boat Captain Stede
  • Childhood Friends to Lovers
  • Best Friends to Lovers
  • Second Chance Romance
  • Reunion in Norway
  • long-term pining
  • Mutual Pining
  • Middle-Aged Romance
  • Slow Burn-ish But Then It Isn’t
  • Happy Ending
  • Norway Setting
  • Lofoten (Norway)
  • Road Trip / Vacation
  • Fishing Trip
  • Birdwatching
  • Cabin in the Woods (But Make It Scandinavian Coastal)
  • fake death
  • Faked Funeral
  • Financial Fraud
  • Justice for Stede Bonnet
  • Satisfying Arrest Scene
  • Family Drama
  • Protective Ed
  • Protective Stede
  • Found Family
  • New Restaurant Opening
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • First Time
  • First time having sex
  • Mutual Masturbation
  • Frottage
  • Fixation on Your Best Friend’s Legs
  • stockings kink
  • Lingerie On Men
  • silk stockings
  • Praise Kink
  • soft kink
  • Bath Intimacy
  • shower intimacy
  • Loving Sex
  • Emotional Sex
  • Post-Coital Bath
  • Aftercare
  • Panic Attacks
  • Alcohol Abuse / Self-Medicating with Alcohol
  • Past Child Abuse
  • Parental Abuse (Referenced)
  • Anxiety
  • Trauma & Healing
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Physical hurt/comfort
  • Comfort Sex
  • “I Thought You Were Dead” Reunion
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Cathartic Crying
  • We Talk About Our Feelings (Eventually)
  • slow healing
  • Ed Has Big Feelings
  • Stede Has Big Feelings
  • Hand-wavey about the details of a faked death
  • Stede Bonnet is alive
  • So let's not question it too much
  • Rated Explicit but I will mark explicit sections in case they want to be skipped

  Summary

  A cathartic trip to Norway turns into something much different when a huge revelation turns Ed's world upside down in the best possible way.

  Also: A fix-it fic to my own damn fic because I really hurt my feelings writing it. 😅

  Series

  • Part 2 of Ruin the Friendship

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  14,548

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Comments:

  59

  Kudos:

  58

  Bookmarks:

  7

  Hits:

  784