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It’s all started from one of Lucius’s videos on TikTok. It’s just a simple ‘a day in my life’ video when the Revenge (The group’s main YouTube Channel) went to Cuba to celebrate New Year's Eve. In that one particular video, in the background, the fans recognized Stede Bonnet with a figure with long black-salt pepper curly hair kissing, the fans also recognized that figure as the frontman of The Queen Anne, Blackbeard a.k.a. Edward Teach.
The thing is, all the fans know Ed is in a relationship with the pianist of the Queen Anne, Izzy Hands. But they didn't know that Ed and Izzy are also in a relationship with Stede.
The fallout from Lucius’s video is… bad, a major disaster, really. People judging and trash-talking all over Ed, calling Stede names and sending him threats on their social media accounts. Izzy is the only one out of the three of them who doesn’t get all of that. And he feels so angry with the fans. He wants to tell them to fuck off and just lock the three of them far far away from civilization. He tried, so he posted a reel with their friend that shows that he and Stede are also close. But it only makes things worse on his lovers’ ends.
And fuck it, he posted a story on Instagram, it was a short video of himself saying, “Fuck off all of you, I’m fine!”
And the fans’ responses are very annoying, “Of course you are, you are literally an angel.” he is not, “Izzy, baby girl, you are so strong, fuck them playing behind your back!” he is fine for fuck’s sake, “I hope they burn in hell.” then he is going to join them in hell! “I really like Ed, but fuck that guy, cheating is disgusting.” with that attitude then you don’t get to like him anymore, “[dick pic] if you need a distraction.” and he gaged.
Izzy throws his phone to the couch and screams at the poor innocent phone, “FUCK OFF YOU BRAINLESS SNAKE!” his face red with anger on his lovers’ behalf. He can see it in their eyes, all of this started to affect their mental states, Stede’s especially. And he hates seeing Stede zoned out of worry, feeling unworthy of him and Ed. He feels like to stab something.
“Izzy?” Izzy stops his pacing, Ed and Stede eye him with concern from their backyard, hands full of soil from their shared hobby of gardening. The sight of them calms his anger.
He fists his hands on his sides, they tremble with overwhelming emotions, “I hate them. I try to fix it, but—” and he loses his words.
“I’m done,” Ed pulls out his gardening gloves and gives them to Stede, “I’m going to the gym upstairs, yeah? Izzy got a lot of energy to waste,” Ed pulls Stede for a kiss before he steers Izzy to the gym at their home.
“Yeah, have fun you two,” Stede waves his gloved hand at them before he pulls them off as well, “I’m going to make some snacks.”
How could Ed stay being his anchor who can always ground him and Stede who is always being a ray of sunshine to him after so much hate they received; he had no idea. Because he is losing his mind right now.
They change their clothes before going upstairs, he takes the treadmills while his mind keeps thinking of a solution. Ed left him alone with his thoughts and he was thankful for that, Izzy's too angry for a heart-to-heart conversation. Izzy once again lost in his thoughts, ponders about what makes them think Ed is having an affair with Stede. He thought the fans knew that he and Ed have an open relationship, and it’s not like they are trying to hide their relationship with Stede. That one time they are fucking with Jack fucking Rackham and the fans are fine. What the fuck is wrong with them.
Does he need to kiss Stede on screen so they can just fuck the hell off? No, they probably will call his sunshine a whore or something. No. Does he need to declare his love for Stede and Ed to the world? Probably. But it’s just not him. It’s too ewrrlh!
But again, what else he could do to shut them off?
Fuck it.
He jumps from the treadmill before turning it off and takes a drink from the dispenser in the corner. His eyes found Ed with the punching bag. He can see it from Ed’s moves, he is frustrated. Izzy needs to fix this. And fix it fast.
Izzy drags Stede’s tripod beside the dispenser and takes his phone out. He positioned his phone not far from Ed. He opens his Instagram and started a live. Ed only raised his eyebrow at him because it’s not so him, being very active on social media. Only a few seconds later he already got over one thousand viewers.
“is that Ed?”
“you two still together?”
Izzy rolled his eyes, annoyed, “Of course, we are still together, you stupid ass.”
“what about that slut Bonnet?”
Angrily, Izzy decides to invite Stede to his live. Which gets accepted immediately.
“Wait a second darling, I’m almost done,” Stede is not looking at his phone, too busy with the fruits for their snacks. And when he looks at the screen he shrieks and flips the phone, “Izzy, is this live? You don’t do live, Izzy.”
Izzy chuckles, “Yeah, I’m about to do something I wouldn’t normally do anyway,” he said softly, “It’s alright, Stede. Just ignore them.”
And then Stede’s face appears on the screen again, “Hi,” he said shyly.
“Hi, Stede,” Izzy said, he noticed Ed moving out from the frame. And that Stede is blushing so hard it makes Izzy smile without him realizing it, “I’m sure you know who I am by now,” and Izzy is grinning, a glee clear dancing in his eyes, “I’m your boyfriend’s boyfriend,” and it makes Ed chokes on his drink, “I just wanted let you know, he’s mine.” Ed still keeps coughing in the background, and he can tell Stede is about to faint from the shock, “But, I will make an exception for you because you are my boyfriend’s boyfriend who is also my boyfriend, and I love you so much.”
“Fuck you Izzy, I’m going to get a heart attack!” Stede ended his live at the same time he heard Stede's footsteps running from downstairs. Ed is laughing at their blond boyfriend’s antic when he appears at the top of the stairs and immediately throws himself into Izzy’s arms despite their height difference, and then they kiss.
They still are live to the world when they are pulled apart giggling. They are still live to the world when Izzy rests his head on Stede’s shoulder and whispers, “my love, my sunshine,” which makes Stede blush and answers, “my darling, my unicorn”. They are still live to the world when Ed joins them on the screen and embraces them both from their sides. They are still live to the world when Ed kisses them both on the foreheads and whispers “my hearts, my everything”. They said them softly, and the fans could only hear them later with some sound editing.