Belle-Île, One Night Before

A story about Aramis and Porthos · 2 chapters · Read the novel this is based on

This is fan fiction. An original, unofficial story written by a contributor to this site, not by Alexandre Dumas. It is not part of the actual novel and should not be mistaken for Dumas's own writing.

Before the royal fleet arrives at Belle-Île and the conspiracy Aramis has spent years building finally collapses, this two-chapter story imagines the last quiet night the two old friends spend together, still uncertain how the coming days will end. It is a conversation about ambition, friendship, and the particular loneliness of being the one person in a partnership who always sees furthest ahead — and the cost of never quite explaining that distance to the friend who has trusted you completely for forty years.

What Aramis Never Said

II.

What Porthos Already Knew