venice

don't take this as canon - i don't know what happens with them, if aurelian turns sam or not. consider this an au, if anything.

"Where have you been?" Aurelian demanded when Sam got back.

"The piazza's flooded again," Sam said. He grinned and stuck out a foot. His boots and the bottoms of his pants were wet. "I splashed around. And I gave a couple directions! They were looking for the ghetto and I knew how to get them there!" He thought about the directions he'd given them. "At least I think I did. Shit, I hope I didn't get them more lost.... I told them to take one of those moonlight gondola rides, I said they're really romantic."

"As I recall," Aurelian mused, "when we tried to do that, it rained."

( for length but no smut )