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Title: Exercise Is Good For The Soul
Fandom: Dragon Age
Pairing(s): Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford, background Evelyn Trevelyan/Blackwall
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some mentions of nudity
Summary: A modern AU based on the following prompt: “I see you jogging around my block every morning so I guess it’s my fault I accidentally left my curtains open when changing while you passed by” au. Cullen jogs, Dorian watches, Dorian is naked, Cullen notices. Shenanigans ensue.

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Dorian hated everything about his new home and yet he also didn’t. He’d chosen to run away from home. He’d known the consequences he would face both if he did and if he didn’t and he didn’t regret his choice but it was something of a come down. His family were practically nobility at home and he’d never really wanted for anything (except love… his father being proud of him… his mother not spending her life at the bottom of a bottle… and love… did he mention love… he’s always wanted that) and having to rely on just his salary now was a bit of a letdown.

He had a job though and he knew he should be thankful for that. Not many places in Fereldan would take a chance on a Tevinter mage but Skyhold had. He had a good job with a decent wage and he’d even been able to afford to rent a house and not a pokey little apartment.

But he still hated it.

The house was (lovely) small and beige and being pre-furnished, it was full of (decent) boring furniture that made him shudder when he wondered what might have happened on it or to it with past tenants. The view was (pleasant) dull and utterly suburbia and he would have (smiled) screamed if he had the energy.

Then he saw him.

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Title: Mistaken Identity - Part 2
Fandom: Dragon Age
Pairing(s): Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford
Rating: PG
Warnings: N/A
Summary: The Empress has been saved and the night is won. Cullen now waits for the axe to fall. Read Part 1 here.

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It was done. Empress Celene had been saved, Gaspard was awaiting the headman’s axe, Florianne was awaiting judgement and Briala and Celene had been reconciled. The ball had taken on a distinctly party air in relief and celebration at all that had been accomplished and more food and wine had been brought out to help with that.

Cullen slipped away from the growing party and walked out onto one of the balconies, closing the doors behind him. He’d seen Bull heading for the balcony the Inquisitor had claimed and knew that there would be no need for him to keep up appearances in the ballroom any longer. He leaned against the balustrade and looked down into the palace gardens, his shoulders slumping as he finally relaxed.

Physically at least. The muscles along his shoulders and back might be finally unknotting themselves now that he was away from the pressure of the court but his mind was in turmoil over what had happened earlier with Dorian. He didn’t know what had possessed him to play along with Lady DeVere’s mistaken assumption that Dorian was his husband. Sheer desperation maybe, mixed in with a lot of wishful thinking seemed the most likely reason. And then Dorian had played along!

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Title: The Letters
Fandom: Dragon Age
Pairing(s): Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford
Rating: PG
Warnings: N/A
Summary: I got the prompt for Cullrian prompt Saturday of: How about Cullen's sister Mia comes to Skyhold and he introduces Dorian to her? Mia seems to know everything about Dorian because he's the only thing Cullen ever writes to her about. Much denial or embarrassment abounds. Fic ensued. Fluff ahoy!

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Dorian lounged in the chair behind Cullen’s desk, his feet resting on the surface of the desk, and watched with appreciation as the Commander paced back and forth across the office. In this state, Cullen truly lived up to his moniker of the ‘Lion of Skyhold’, though his obvious nervousness did detract from the image just a touch.

“You weren’t this nervous before the Inquisitor dragged us all off to face Corypheus, Amatus,” he observed. “And we were facing almost certain death back then. Your sister can’t possibly be worse than that.”

“You were off facing Corypheus,” Cullen said sourly. “I was stuck back here and yes, I was this nervous.”

“So your sister is as bad as Corypheus,” Dorian said, looking amused.

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