Erostober 2025: Day Eighteen

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A school age and almost-entirely-gen-unless-you-really-squint-very-hard Gimlet & Bertie oddment today - a bit of a cheat for the prompt, as it's not S&M in a sexual sense at all, it's more about pain and how the characters evaluate it in different contexts; it sort of looks ahead to some of the stuff I muck about with in my later Bertie/Gimlet fics, but it's not in a sexual context. A fairly direct sequel to Burning Bridges, a few months down the line.

Erostober, Day 18: Safeword - Impact play - Sensation play - Sado-masochism (only not really)
Title: Means to an End.
Rating: T.
Pairing: Lorrington "Gimlet" King & Bertie Lissie.
Words: 5.5k.
Additional tags: Basically gen, school age, revenge, bullying, beating.
Summary: Sadly, beating up your school bully doesn't necessarily make the problem go away.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/72711041