Title: Close to Home
Fandoms: Star Trek Enteprise, Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: PG
Length: 148
Pairings: Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed, Dorian/male Inquisitor
Content notes: post Season 4 (Enterprise), metafiction
Author notes: This takes place sometime post Season 4. It is metafiction with respect to Dragon Age: Inquisition. Jonathan and Malcolm have a long-established relationship. It is Jonathan's voice. The lyrics quoted are from the Irish song Carrighfergus which has become associated with Dorian in my mind and inspired this story.
Summary: What might have been.

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I'm drunk today. But I'm seldom sober.
A handsome rover from town to town...
"Another vintage game, Malcolm?"

He nods toward the screen in front of him. "Travis has quite the collection of them... he's such an enabler. This one is supposedly more of a fantasy setting. I didn't think I'd care for it much."

"But there's something you find compelling enough to spend a few nights playing it?"

Malcolm points at a character drinking in a medieval style pub. "This is Dorian. I think we had the same father."

I wrap my arms around my lover and drop a kiss into his hair.

"My male Inquisitor character is developing a romantic interest in him, but Dorian has trouble accepting that any man would want more than a furtive fling with him."

He turns in my arms, resting his head against my chest for a moment before lifting his head to kiss me.

"I could have been Dorian... but I met you."

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