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#i get that hes not a cleric to her so he's not totally pious to her but like uh...
attickit · 1 year
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I wonder what Melora thinks of all of this.
She protects this child of the sea from a snea snake demigod and gains an oath from him. He also has the weapon, a vestige of divergence made under her name and Sehanine's. Which is all well and good. He's been trying to communicate with her and trying to get better at understanding deity and higher powers.
But then the bumbling fool makes another pact with a different power, a betrayer god that is at odds with her, to fight the snea snake that has been released unto the world. He's willing to keep a mark of a betrayer for help in battle.
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For Us Sinners
Soulless Sam x Reader
Word Count: ~4130
Warnings: This is 100% pure smutty religion-themed filth. Sam is dressed as a priest. There’s sex in a confessional, severe perversion of the Hail Mary prayer, and a lot of blasphemy happening. Like. A lot. Orgasm denial. Squirting. Non-explicit mentions of Winchester threesomes, gun play, and knife play. 
A/N: For @stusbunker​‘s “Jam Basket” fic exchange! This is for the lovely @rockhoochie​. I managed to squeeze a decent amount of her jams in here. Sarah, my dear, I hope this makes you even a little bit as happy as your friendship makes me. 
Thanks to @cracksinthewalls​ @fangirlxwritesx67​ and @fookinghelljensensthighs​ for lore, encouragement, and inspiration! 
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You’re frowning at the trunk arsenal, wondering if it’s possible to sharpen a machete too much, when movement catches your eye. Sam rounds the corner of the old warehouse, and you grab a knife and a whetstone just to have something to focus on that’s not him and his stupid smirky face or the way his shoulders look in that suit. 
The whole priest thing is a really good look on him. 
“Dean’s not back yet?” he asks, without preamble, sitting on the edge of the trunk next to you. You focus very intently on your knife. 
“Nice to see you too, Sam,” you snark, to cover the way you’re blushing. “Why yes, I did have a super fun afternoon of doing fucking nothing! Waiting around for you two is exactly how I wanted to spend the last three hours, thanks for asking.” 
He laughs. “Weren’t you just telling me that I should stop pretending to be normal polite Sam?” 
“Whatever,” you mutter. 
“Lemme see that,” he says abruptly, and plucks the knife from your grip before you can protest. He takes one look at it and laughs at you, twirling the blade in his fingers. “Working out some frustration, huh?” 
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” 
“What’s really going on? You’re only like this when you’re hungry or horny.” 
“Bullshit,” you snap, but he’s totally fucking right. He’s way too perceptive these days. 
You’ve been refusing to play poker with him ever since this whole soulless deal came to light. He’s like a walking polygraph test… a very attractive, muscled polygraph who’s really good in the sack. 
He’s analyzing your expression with his head cocked. “The knife thing?” 
“I don’t know what you’re — that’s not—”
He holds the tip of the blade to your throat, and you stop stammering immediately. You close your eyes and swallow hard. 
“That’s not new, though,” he says thoughtfully. 
When you open your eyes, ready to protest, he’s tucking the knife back in its sheath and twisting to set it in the trunk. 
“How’d you know about that?” you ask reluctantly. 
He just smirks, that godawful not-Sam not-smile, with his dimples popping and his eyes glittering. 
“One of these days you’re going to realize that I’ll never judge you,” he says, low and sly. “C’mon. Tell me.” He puts on a prim, sanctimonious face, pointing at the collar, and says, “Confess your sins and all will be forgiven.” 
He ruins the pious effect by licking his lips and aggressively eye-fucking you. 
You try to laugh, but it comes out all squeaky. You’ve never been good at poker, and if Sam’s smirk is anything to go by, he can see exactly what’s written all over your face. 
“Shut up,” you say preemptively. “Asshole.” 
“This is totally doing it for you, isn’t it?” Sam asks. 
“Shut up.” 
His smile is gleeful. “Oh my god, it is!” 
“That’s not — I’m not—” 
You grit your teeth and stand up abruptly, and it’s not like you can go anywhere but you need to move; it’s impossible to think straight when he’s right there and he smells so good. 
He gets up so quickly you barely have time to blink before he’s in your space. He backs you against the warm metal of the door, caging you in with one big hand planted on either side of your head, and you have to tilt your chin up to meet his wickedly sparkling eyes. 
“Don’t lie to me,” he says, soft and heated, lips curling up in a familiar dangerous smile. “Lying is a sin.” 
“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” you huff, but you can’t stop staring at his mouth. 
“Besides, I can always tell. Admit it.” 
“You are so fucking—”
Without warning, he’s tugging at your zipper, yanking the button open, and shoving a hand roughly down the front of your jeans as he murmurs, “You are so fucking into this.” 
Before you can protest (not that you’d really want to) he’s got two fingers sliding into you, curling sweet and easy where you’re ridiculously, undeniably, outrageously into this. 
“Maybe a little bit,” you sigh. 
He’s just smiling, watching you squirm, playing with you like a cat might play with a mouse, and as much as you’d like to be angry about it, he knows exactly how to use those clever fingers. Then — 
“Dean’s back,” he says calmly, and before you can even process that, he’s sucking his fingers clean and walking around the car to greet his brother. 
You have about three seconds to button your pants, thank your lucky stars that you were on this side of the car, and generally get your shit together before it’s back to business. 
“It’s a goddamn garden statue,” Dean is saying. “Some crazy old bat donated it to the church and then just up and left town. First person disappeared the next day.” 
“So we wait til dark, take it down, break the curse.” Sam shrugs. “Easy enough.” 
“Like a chant ‘n’ smash,” you offer. Both the boys give you blank looks, and you try to pretend like your brain isn’t totally scrambled. “You know. Like a salt and burn. A good old-fashioned chant and smash… no? Okay, whatever.” 
Sam is barely containing his laughter. Asshole. 
“I could use a nap before we do that, I’m wiped,” Dean grumbles, taking off his clerical collar as he slides into the driver’s seat. Sam keeps his on. 
As you’re all getting buckled, he says, “Why don’t you just let us handle this one, Dean? You should take the night off.” 
“If you guys want some privacy to bone, you can just say so,” Dean grouches. “But get another motel room, don’t bring Baby into it.” 
“Yeah, we know. We will,” Sam reassures him. 
Dean does not seem reassured. He looks at Sam suspiciously. “So, what, you’re just being nice?”  
“Oh, absolutely not,” Sam says bluntly. “You look like shit and I don’t want you hunting with me when you’re this sleep-deprived.” 
Dean rolls his eyes. “Yeah, okay, that I buy. Man, this whole soul-free honesty shit is gonna take some getting used to.” 
“You and me both,” you sigh, and Sam gives you a wink in the rearview mirror. 
 * * *
“That is the creepiest-looking angel I’ve ever seen,” Sam comments, striking a match. “And l’m including Zachariah in that. Okay, here we go.” 
He lights up the little bowl of herbs he’s concocted and says a few things in Latin, and then the smoke coming up from the bowl turns eerie green and seems to sink into the worn concrete. 
“Is that it?” you ask dubiously. “How do we smash it?” 
“That’s the fun part,” Sam says. He attaches a silencer and loads his gun, quick and practiced, and when you’re both out of shrapnel range he aims almost lazily while you try not to stare at his fingers. Bad enough that he’s still wearing the priest getup. Watching him shatter an angel with a few perfect shots shouldn’t be a turn-on, but…  
“Shouldn’t” is one of those words that lost most of its meaning when you and Sam started fucking. In the last two weeks, he’s managed to discover kinks you’ve never even admitted to yourself. 
Speaking of — 
“C’mon,” he says, and when the gun is deposited safely back in the arsenal, he grabs your hand without waiting for an answer, leading you around to a side door. The door isn’t even locked. Sam’s smile is gleeful in the moonlight. 
“What are we doing?” you ask, as he leads you inside. 
It’s almost completely dark, just a faint glow from the emergency exit signs to light the sanctum, until Sam takes out his matches and lights a few of the tall pillar candles that are arranged in nooks around the altar. The golden glow flickers and dances on the walls. 
Sam grabs you by the wrist, and you halfheartedly attempt to tug your hand away. He’s got that glint in his eye that can only mean trouble. 
“We really shouldn’t be here,” you hiss, as he pulls you over to the confessional. 
“What are they gonna do, condemn my soul to hell?” he says flatly, and you stifle a giggle. “We established a while ago that my immortal soul is fucked.” 
“Mine isn’t,” you mutter. 
He looks at you with another of those smirks and says, “That’s why you’re the one who needs to confess.” 
“Oh, you gotta be kidding me,” you sigh, but instead of answering, he crowds in close, pressing you up against the smooth dark wood of the confessional, and kisses you, all teeth and tongue and liquefying heat, until your lips feel bruised and your entire body is tingling. 
“Confess,” he whispers, and with one last grin, he points you toward one curtain and slips behind the other. 
If you’ve learned anything about Sam over the years, soul or no, it’s that there’s no point arguing when he’s made up his mind about something. 
Sam seems to have made up his mind. 
You pull the curtain closed behind you and sit on the little bench, and you have to breathe through some long-buried memories before the words come to your lips. 
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,” you whisper.  “It has been… a long time since my last confession.” 
The flickering candlelight cuts through small gaps around the curtain, casting dancing shadows through the cramped space. Your cheeks are burning. 
“Sam?” you ask tentatively. “This feels stupid.” 
He lets out a low, cocky chuckle, and his voice is all sorts of promising when he replies, “Trust me, I’ll make it worth your while. Play along for me.” 
Fine. 
“Where do I start?” you mumble. “I drink, frequently. I have been dishonest. I gamble, and I do not dress modestly, and — I don’t know. What else?” 
“Do you have impure thoughts?” You can hear the smile in Sam’s voice. 
“Yes.”
“About what?” 
You swallow hard, closing your eyes, thinking about the way he looks right now. No preacher has ever looked so good in that black suit. “About… about you.” 
“Go on.” 
“About the way you feel inside me. About the way you fuck me.” 
“What did you think about last time you touched yourself?” 
Your breath hitches. “I thought… I imagined that you —” 
“Lying is a sin.” 
Fuck. 
That’s the thing about Sam; he won’t let you get away with politeness, or with half-truths, or with telling him what most guys would want to hear. 
Fuck him and his creepy polygraph spidey senses. 
“I imagined that it was Dean,” you whisper, cheeks burning. 
“And how did that go, in your fantasy?” There’s no trace of surprise or hesitation in his voice. 
“I was — he bent me over the hood of the car.” 
“That’s not the first time you’ve thought about him, is it?” 
“Sam, I don’t — this is weird,” you say, squirming slightly. 
“Why?” he says, and you keep waiting for the jealousy or the disgust to color his words, but all you can hear is curiosity. “Do you think about him while I’m fucking you?” 
You let out a long, measured exhale. “Yes.” 
“Have you thought about him walking in? Listening to us?”
“Yes. Sam, I don’t—” 
“Were you thinking about him a couple days ago, in the middle of the night? When you couldn’t seem to keep quiet?”
You shudder, pressing your thighs together. “Yes.” 
“Tell me.” When you hesitate, he continues, “I wondered… felt the way you were squeezing around my cock every time it got too loud. You wanted him to hear.” 
“I wanted him to — to imagine. I hoped he was awake, and that he was turned on, and—” 
“You wanted him to join in,” Sam supplies, when you falter. His voice sounds husky, now. “You were imagining both of us, huh? What else?” 
“Sitting in your lap, in the backseat, while he watches in the rearview,” you mumble, and now that you’ve started talking, it’s hard to stop: “I think about getting on my knees for both of you. Letting him have my mouth while you fuck me, or… one of you holding me down.” 
“Have you imagined us handcuffing you? Taking turns with you?” he asks calmly. 
“Well now I’m imagining it,” you huff, and your nervous giggle breaks the tension for a moment. 
“I know you’re holding out on me,” Sam purrs, when the silence starts to stretch. “Leave my brother out of it, if you’re getting all hung up on that. What else?” 
“I don’t know,” you mumble. 
“Trust me. God isn’t judging you and neither am I. Tell me what you want me to do to you.” 
You can’t bring yourself to spit it out, even like this. “That’s it.” 
“Don’t lie to me.” His voice is silk and steel now. “Why don’t I take a guess?” 
“Fine.”  
“Knives,” he says bluntly, and your inhale is too sharp to be innocent. “You like the way a knife looks in my hands, the way it’d be dangerous if I didn’t know what I was doing.” 
“Yes.” 
“You want to know what it’d be like: cold metal on your skin. A knife at your throat, or... a gun to your temple.” 
You’re shaking. 
“How’d you know?” you whisper. 
“I pay attention,” he says simply, voice ragged, and then there’s a long pause before he asks, “Is that the end of your confession?” 
You’d almost forgotten where you are. You’re grateful the screen is still between you and Sam. 
“Yes,” you say, and because old habits die hard, you add, “I am sorry for these and all the sins of my past lives.” 
“As for penance…” You can hear the teasing note in it, and some of your self-consciousness dissipates. “You can begin by taking off your clothes.” 
“Here?” you laugh. “Sam…” 
“Here. Now.” 
You let out a tiny, nervous whine of protest, but you’re too turned on to care, not when you’ve already crossed so many lines tonight. 
Then you strip, taking off your clothes with shaking hands and setting them in a neat-ish pile in one corner of the tiny booth. It’s chilly, and you wrap your arms around yourself, feeling goosebumps run down your bare skin. 
“Okay,” you say softly. 
“Now... you can say ten Hail Marys,” Sam says, with that smirk in his voice again. 
“I — really?” you ask. 
Just as you’re thinking that’s all?, Sam is ducking through the curtain of the confessional, crowding you in and pushing on your shoulder until you sit back down on the narrow bench. Even in the barely-there flickers of light you can see the wicked smile on his face as he drops to his knees in front of you.  
“And you may not come until you’re finished,” he orders coolly. 
Then he’s hooking his arms under your knees, grabbing you by the hips and pulling you forward so that he can get that filthy smirking mouth on you. He licks a hot slick stripe up your center, swirling his tongue over your throbbing clit, and —
“Holy fucking shit,” you gasp, letting your head fall back against the wood with an echoing thunk, because whatever Sam’s doing with his lips is sending sweet fluttering waves of heat through your belly. “Oh my God, Sam, that’s—” 
“If you keep taking the Lord’s name in vain,” he growls, nipping at your inner thigh, “I’ll double it.” 
“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,” you start, and it’s been a while; Sam’s not the only reason you have to pause. “Fuck. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the — the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now—” Your voice breaks as you whimper, and you finish in one long rushed breath: “— and at the hour of our death, amen.”
“There you go,” Sam says, practically moaning the words against slick skin. You’re already having trouble thinking straight. 
You start all over again, trying to rush through it as quickly as possible, but you stutter as Sam fucks you shallowly with his tongue.  
“That wasn’t so bad, was it?” Sam says, curling two long fingers into you.
Except it’s bad. In the short time you’ve been doing this, Sam has learned your sweet spots like nobody’s ever learned them before, and he’s not touching them now. This is barely a tease, compared to what you know he can do to you. It’s bad, and it’s going to get so much worse. 
You start to stammer through the third prayer. You’re so wet — from the thrill of the setting, as much as what he’s doing with his tongue — you can hear the slick thrust of his fingers inside you, dirty and distracting. 
When you pause for breath between “Mary” and “mother of God,” Sam hums low against your cunt, and you know he enjoys this, you know he gets off on it, but he lets out these noises that never fail to make you feel feverish, and now is no exception. It doesn’t feel chilly any more. By “amen,” you’re burning up. 
“Three down,” Sam murmurs. 
On the fourth “grace,” he closes his lips around your clit and sucks gently, and you make a high, squeaky, mortifyingly desperate sound. Your voice keeps breaking as you stumble through the next lines, until you end on a long, relieved groan. 
“Good girl,” he croons. “Six more.” 
“I can’t,” you hiss. 
“You can. And you will.” 
On “full,” Sam twists his knuckles, and you gasp, arching your back, squirming. He fucks you in the same rhythm as your words, dragging friction across your g-spot with every syllable, and when you try to speed up, rushing through it, you can’t even get to “sinners” without breaking off in a moan. He stops completely as you pant for breath, and as you mumble through the last lines, painfully slow, you’re rolling your hips, trying to fuck yourself on his fingers, desperate for more. 
“That’s five,” Sam says. “I’ll give you a second to catch your breath.” 
With his free hand, he grabs one of your wrists, guiding your hand to the back of his head. His eyes flick up to you, watching hungrily, until you slide your fingers through the silky strands and tug lightly. 
You sigh. “You’re gonna kill me.” 
“Hope not,” he says, smirking against the crease of your thigh. “I’m into some weird shit, but I like ‘em warm and breathing.” 
“Ha fucking ha, Sam, that’s — fuck,” you choke, as he fits his mouth to your clit again, and this time he sucks lightly in time with the slow thrusts of his fingers.  You forget what you’re saying, somewhere around “God,” and stumble to the end in bits and incoherent pieces. 
“Six.” You realize you’ve got a death grip on his hair, all your muscles tensed-up and rigid with electricity that’s got nowhere else to go, but when you ease up, he pumps his fingers in deep and growls, “Harder.” 
He adds a third finger, and it’s so fucking good, so fucking much, filling you with fizzing pressure, and it takes most of your willpower to stop yourself from going under. 
You grit out, “HailMaryfullofgrace.” Lightning lances up your belly, and you squirm— “TheLordiswiththee.” — twist your fingers in Sam’s hair— “Blessedartthouamongwomen.” — muscles quaking, cunt clenching around perfectly curled fingers— “Blessedisthe. Fuck. Fruitofthywomb. Fuck — Jesus!” — tension surging and swelling  — “Holy Mary, mother of God, prayforussinnersnow, fuck, Sam!” — you’re almost there, almost, and he stops, refusing to give you what you want as you gasp out, “And —at the— the hour of our death, amen.” 
“Seven,” he says harshly, and you can feel him breathing hard, damp hot air teasing your slick swollen skin, and his mouth is so close to where you want it. He gives you a second and then: “Keep going.” 
You babble out a few words at a time, and your voice is ragged and broken, but it must sound close enough to what he wants; he’s winding you up again, fingers crooking expertly against that sweet spot. The heel of his other hand digs into your lower belly, right over that point of white heat, and it’s so intense, suddenly, that everything goes sparkly and distant.  
“Pray for us,” you groan, and he sucks, fast and hard. “Pray for us — us sinners —” 
There’s this pressure, right there, right where his fingers are stoking a fire, and it’s blazing, and —
“Sam, I can’t. I can’t, I’m gonna—” 
He’s not holding back, and you can’t either. You buck helplessly against the incredible suction of his mouth, holding him with both hands fisted in his hair as you bow up and cry out. All that pressure peaks, crashing down in wave after wave of relief, pulling you under like a rip tide as you come dripping-wet and messy. 
It blinds you, for a moment. You’re out of your body for who knows how long, lit-up and paralyzed by the high-voltage shock of it. 
When you come back to yourself, Sam is scooping you up and swapping places with you in one smooth movement, manhandling you so that you’re straddling him; he’s got his pants open just enough, can’t seem to wait any longer, and the breathless urgency is so unusual for him that your head spins. 
You’re still clenching through the lingering quakes of your orgasm, trembling, boneless like a rag doll, and it’s not you sinking down on his cock so much as him pulling you, filling you up inch by inch as you squeeze and quiver around the thick length of him. 
When he’s as deep as he can be, his arms wrapped around you and practically crushing you to his chest, you both pause and take a ragged gulp of air. 
“What even was that?” you slur, bracing yourself with a hand against the wall and trying to adjust. He lets out a rough groan through gritted teeth. 
“That is what I’ll be seeing every time I look at a confessional now,” he pants, starting to rock up into you. “Never gonna be able to walk into a church without getting hard.” 
He wraps an arm around your ribs, and the heat of his splayed hand on your shoulder feels like it spans half your back. Your naked skin seems even more obscene as it brushes the stiff cloth of his suit, and you can feel your own wetness soaking the fabric in places. You shiver, roll your hips, and you can feel the way he reacts, shuddering under you. 
“Seems like I’m not the only one who likes this a little too much,” you say, breathless. 
“Who said anything about too much? No such thing.” He barks out a laugh, bucking up in a way that makes you moan. “I’ve been to heaven, and trust me when I say, this right here—” He twists his hips viciously to emphasize the word. “— this is so much better.”
“God, this is so —” you whimper. He fists a hand in your hair and bites your neck, and you jerk helplessly against him. 
“God doesn’t care,” he growls. “God wasn’t listening to you just now.” 
“That’s not —” You’re pretty sure he’s missing the point, but with the way your cunt is throbbing at every perfect thrust, you can’t remember what that point is; you can’t remember anything. 
“God’s not going to answer those prayers,” he says hoarsely. “I’m the one who’s going to handcuff you and bend you over the hood of the car and fuck you until your legs give out.” 
“Holy shit, Sam.” Your brain is shorting out. 
“I’m going to make sure Dean sees you when you’re all strung-out and begging for it,” he promises. He jerks up with a vicious twist of his hips, and you grind down to meet him, every inch of your skin singing. “I’m going to hold a gun to your head while you ride me. I’m going to give you anything you want.” 
“Please.” Your moan sounds more like a sob, and you can’t see straight anymore; it’s all going distant, until the only thing that feels real is the aching, pulsing heat of him inside you. 
Sam claws at your back, dragging his open mouth up the side of your neck until he can snarl against your ear: “God doesn’t answer prayers, but I do.” 
He surges up to meet you one last time. Your vision flashes bright white as you come, one exquisite pulse after another rolling through you, and it feels like a purer sort of ecstasy than any religious experience you’ve had in a church.
This is worth a little hellfire. 
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The Decameron Diaries, Day 3
In the face of COVID-19, it seems apt to spend time with Boccaccio’s naughty, scandalous stories.  The frame premise is that 10 noblewomen and me escape plague ridden Florence to be out of harm’s way.It is merely a lark, but reading one a day will put on mark on the wall of our jail cell and let us know how long our sentence is.Here is the latest installment.
DAY 3
The retinue moves to an idyllic estate and garden before settling in the for their stories.
1-4/7–One of the stories from “The Little Hours.”  It fits the theme of hard work rewarded very loosely as it is about a ribald deceit.  A handsome young man portrays himself as a deaf-mute to work as a gardener in a convent.  One by one all the nuns, including the abbot, are having sex with him on the premise that he can never tell anyone of their “sin.”  They are tiring him out, so he miraculously regains his speech so that they can work out a schedule that lasts until the Abbess dies.  They cover up the stream of “little monklets and nunlets” that he sires, so that his reward for his hard work is all those children whom he didn’t have to raise or pay for.  Er, okay.  Fun maybe because the moral seems so ludicrous.
2–4/8–A groom sneaks into the queen’s bed and she, somehow, thinks he’s the king.  When the king comes in later that same night, she is impressed with his ardor.  Knowing someone has been sleeping in his bed, he goes to the servant’s quarters and identifies the one with the tell tale accelerated heartbeat. The groom feigns sleep to avoid discovery.  The king cuts his hair at his temple to identify him in the morning, so the groom cuts everyone’s hair.  They are at a stalemate and the king decides to say nothing to save his wife and himself from scandal.
3-4-/9–A fair lady courts a gentleman by going to confession to “complain” to a stupid friar who is the gentleman’s friend.  Each time, she conveys information to her gentleman informing him how he should proceed ultimately to come to her when her husband is away in business. This is prototypical Boccaccio—ribald and anti-clerical.
4–4/10–A young friar persuades a pious lay churchman to do a special penance so that he can sleep with his wife who is altogether fed up with her husband’s piety.  All three find “paradise.”
5–4/10–A rich vain man thinks he has tricked a rival for his palfrey in exchange for the mere chance to talk to the man’s wife.  She is instructed not to speak and she doesn’t’.  But the palfrey owner gives her side of the conversation which he then acts on.  As in 3.3 the stated dialogue predicts the action.
6-4/11–A totally despicable story.  A rake deceives a virtuous woman (a “prude”) into thinking her husband is a philanderer and to go catch him out by going to “his” rendezvous.  Instead the rake is there and sleeps with her by deception.  He answers her outrage by saying no one will believe her.  Even when she sees his logic, she says she hates him and will seek vengeance.  Somehow he mollifies here and that starts a casual dalliance.  Not proto-feminist at all.
7–4/11–A man spurned by his mistress goes away for many years, but returns to find her husband is accused of murdering him.  It was not him but someone else.  The returnee is reunited with the mistress after saving her husband and reconciling his brothers with the husband as he had been accused by them. Long long diatribe against friars in the middle of the story.
8–4/12–A womanizing abbot drugs a woman’s doltish husband so that he thinks he has died and gone to Purgatory.  There he “learns” not to be jealous of his wife and that he will have a child.  But it’s the abbot’s.  Nonetheless, both he and the abbot gain reputations for saintliness.
9–4/12–Shakespeare based “All’s Well That Ends Well” on this story.  Clever but low birthed young woman cures a king and takes as her reward a courtier with whom she grew up as her husband.  He refuses and later sets that he will return only if she bears him a child and gets a ring.  She does so by substituting herself for a young woman he covets.  But she succeeds and, yep, all’s well that ends well.
10–4/12–A “holy” man convinces an innocent young woman that she can serve god by putting his “devil” back in her “hell” which both find quite agreeable, indeed she becomes even more “pious” than he is.  One of Dineo’s more ribald stories to end the day.
This day was nominally about people returning to fortune through effort or virtue.  In fact, the effort is primarily clever manipulation and the ends are not traditionally virtuous.  There is a frank sexuality and vows, matrimonial and holy alike, are optional. But they are mostly amusingly naughty.  But III, 6 is unpleasant.  Still this is the Boccaccio I expected to find.
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