Flinthamilton

Flinthamilton is the slash ship between James Flint and Thomas Hamilton from the Black Sails fandom.

Season 2
IX

James exits and walks up to the steps of Parliment, asking for Thomas Hamilton. Thomas asks if he's the liasion from the admirilty, and James confirms that he is. The two walk and Thomas explains how the pirate problem on Nassau started. Finding a way to end it is why the two of them are there. Thomas asks why the Navy sent James give the importance of the situation. James is offended, but Thomas explains that he means that James is likely to rise in rank, which would cause concern. James doesn't understand why, although that might be his lack of education. Thomas explains that he wants to save Nassau, but can't do it with someone who is more concerned with their career than their goal. James says that if Thomas wants to save Nassau, then his job will be to make sure Thomas knows what he's getting into.

James and Thomas go down to the docks, and Thomas asks why they're there. James explains that he wants to show Thomas was why piracy continues, and asks if he's ever seen a hanging. Thomas says he hasn't and asks who the man being hung is. James doesn't know, just that he was arrested for piracy and will be hung. Thomas assumes that the reason piracy continues is due to chaos, but James didn't bring Thomas for the hanging, but the masses cheering on the hanging. James explains that civilizations needs monsters. Thomas asks if Whitehall wants Piracy, but James doesn't think so, just that they know the consequences of fighting it. James see's that it's a good idea to remind him that the only thing that stops the world from changing, is everyone else.

As James waits for Thomas to finish talking with some civilians, he is called over by Thomas' wife, Miranda. She says that she envy's James, and remembers what it felt like meeting him for the first time. She called it an indescribable feeling one gets when in the presence of truly great men, a feeling that she suspects James is feeling right now. James would use indescribable, and Miranda asks if he questions Thomas' motives. James doesn't, but he does question the most likely outcome and knows that politics is an unforgiving game.

X

Thomas tells James the story of "Adam and Eve", and says that the lesson of it was that everyone needs a partner. James had been assigned to be his, but even Thomas knows that he thinks the plan is doomed. James said that he didn't mean that, just that they should lower their expectations on what they can achieve. Thomas asks what James thinks they can achieve and James starts to speculate on ways to handle the pirates, but Thomas meant on things other than the pirates. James is confused and Thomas explains that the pirates aren't the problem with Nassau, but a symptom. The true cause is the corrupt governors and lords, which draws the pirate's there. He asks what James thinks would return the island to stability, aside from the pirates. James thinks for a moment before listing it all. Believing that they'd be making a colony somewhere that hasn't taken to it for fifty years. Then they'd have to take care of the pirates they agreed not to discuss. James decides to be honest and says that he has high doubts about the plan, and can asks for a different liaison who is more sympathetic to Thomas' views. Thomas just tells him that the new world is a gift, and doesn't want his family to be the reason for it to fail. He's not looking for someone to hold his hand through it all, but for someone who will help make sure Nassau survives. James is confused as to why Thomas would think he's that person, given their different views. Thomas believes those views are the reason he is the correct person. Strange pairs can make wonderful things.

XI

Thomas tells James that the biggest problem with Nassau is Robert Thompson collecting bribes from pirates, while gaining sympathy from the lords in London, and fueling the problem. James doesn't know what they can do about it, and Thomas asks if they can get an honest governor appointed in the Bahamas. James says that it can happen, but they don't seem to stay honest. Thomas asks why that is, and James blames being alone on an island can make someone realize that there are no limits to their power. There's a knock on the door and Miranda walks in, checking to make sure they're alive given they'd been in the office for hours. Thomas recounts to her James ideas on Nassau being likely to fail, and Miranda asks James if Thomas has been like this all day. James says pretty much and Miranda gives him a copy of Don Quixote. Telling him it will help him to deal with Thomas going forward.

XII

James arrives at the Hamilton household at the request of Thomas. Thomas tells him that "he'll" be arriving soon, and James asks for him to clarify. Thomas tells him that he means his father, Lord Alfred Hamilton, who expects full reports on their plans for Nassau. James asks if he's worried how Alfred will receive it, and Thomas is worried about one particular part, one he and James haven't discussed. James thought that there wasn't anything they hadn't discussed. Thomas admits that he's come to trust James a lot, which is why he feels he can asks for his help. When Alfred arrives, he intends to propose something politically dangerous, and James asks what he wants his help with. Thomas says that he wants him to talk him out of it.

Thomas explains what they'll go over to his father, and that the way they approach the pirates will be how the whole plan is judged. James thinks that's where the plan is strongest, but Thomas tells him that's not the proposal he wants to make, even if it is the safest. Thomas instead wants the pirate's to be pardoned instead of hanged. James is confused and asks how many. Thomas says all of them, believing that they would be a benefit to the island, part of the solution. James reminds him that they're traitors to England, and Thomas just wants to know if it would work. James tells him that if he proposes the plan, Alfred won't approve and will distance himself from Thomas. If half of what he heard of Alfred is true, then he's not a man Thomas would want as an enemy. As his liaison, James tells him to approach with caution. As his friend, he wants him to forget he ever thought about it.

During dinner, Alfred approves of the plan but questions what they're to do about he pirates. Thomas looks to James before telling his father his plan to pardon the pirates. Alfred disagrees entirely and starts to ask James for his opinion, before Thomas tells him to stop. Alfred ignores him and starts to argue with Thomas again. He asks James again for his opinion, and James says that he supports it. He stands up and tells Alfred that he finds Thomas correct and true and Alfred's arguments lesser. He thinks it's time the lord left and Alfred angrily leaves. Once gone, Thomas asks if James really just asked Alfred to leave his own house. They're silent for a moment, before Thomas tells him that Alfred is now doing everything he can to make sure the plan never see's the light of day, and that James is now in the crossfire. James says that people can say what they like about Thomas, but he's a good man and more people should say that. Someone should be willing to defend it.

XIII

After three months at sea, James returns to the London where he meats with the Hamiltons and Lord Ashe. Thomas tells him that if James was able to get support from the Nassau governor, it would help their campaign, but James tells him that there is no governor in Nassau. Several pirates had killed Thompsons wife and son, but allowed him to live so that it would be known who was running Nassau now. Thomas sits, down completely distraught, as James relays that he barely made it and that there is no law in Nassau. Ashe says that the plan is dead, but James says that if they can convince the sea lords, they might still have a case. Thomas asks how he would do it, and James says that they would have to make a case directly to the sea lords. Thomas asks if they'd hear him, and James believes that they would.

James arrives back at the Hamiltons and demands to know where Thomas is, and Ashe informs him that Alfred's men took him. James asks where and Miranda tells him that he was taken to Bethlem hospital, over grief from finding out about the affair between him and Miranda. That's what the story will be at least. They have to leave London, but James insists that they have to get Thomas out. Miranda says they can't, but James says that he will. Miranda asks if she thinks he's angry, and James says that he's beyond that, but Miranda is enraged. Before he was taken Thomas made her promise that the two of them would take care of each other. Their in danger, Thomas is gone, and they must leave.

In the present, Miranda tells Flint that he's never been clear with his intentions. He keeps saying what he fights for, including Thomas' name, but she doesn't believe it. She believes that he's fighting for the sake of fighting, to drown out the voice in his head. Flint asks what voice she means, and she means the voice that tells him to be ashamed, for ever having loved Thomas.

In the past, after the dinner with Alfred, Thomas walks over to James and places his hand on his shoulder. He leans towards James, and James backs away before giving into Thomas and the two kiss.

In the present, Miranda tells Flint that when he was told that loving Thomas was shameful, part of him believed it. Thomas was her husband, and although they loved each other, what he shared with Flint was entirely something else. It's time he accepted that. Flint says that the only thing he's ashamed of is listening to Miranda, instead of finding a way to save Thomas. Miranda starts to leave but places Meditations in front of Flint before doing so. Once she is gone, Flint opens the book and thinks about his time with Thomas and leaving London. The inside cover reads:

Season 1
III
 * Flint listends to Miranda read Marcus Aurelious

IV
 * Flint is angry with Miranda for reading
 * Flint looks to the painting of Thomas.

VII
 * Flint asks if Miranda remembers that England took Thomas from them.
 * Miranda yells at Flint that if Thomas were there, he'd agree with her.

Season 2
IX
 * James smiles and Thomas' comment.

X
 * James tell Hennessey about Thomas' ideas.
 * James punches Pickram for insulting the Hamiltons.
 * James assures Hennessey that he's can still be objective about Thomas.

XI
 * James smiles at Thomas recounting their day.
 * Thomas tells Miranda that James doesn't know spanish.
 * James assumes that he would be a guest of Miranda and Thomas.

XII
 * Thomas chuckles at James' remark.
 * James looks between Alfred and Thomas as they fight.
 * Thomas watches James argue with his father.
 * James stands by Thomas' side as he addresses the other lords.
 * Thomas introduces James to Lord Ashe.

XIII
 * Miranda tells Thomas that James had arrived back from the Bahamas.
 * James tells Miranda that Thomas is right about Nassau.
 * James believes that Thomas should be governor of Nassau.
 * James tells Hennessey that they were wrong about Thomas, and he's someone to look out for.
 * Miranda tries to remind James that he was still the man changed by Thomas.

XVII
 * James admits that receiving news of Thomas' death drove him and Miranda to a dark place.
 * James tells Ashe that they can still use the same plan Thomas proposed years ago.
 * Ashe tells James to admit to the affair with Thomas.

Season 3
XXI
 * James tells the image of Miranda how distraught he was over Thomas' death.

XXII
 * James tells Silver that he worked with Ashe, Miranda and Thomas to plan the universal pardons.

XXV
 * Rogers brings up to Flint his original plans with Thomas.
 * Flint tells Rogers that Thomas made the plan, and was killed for it.

XXVIII
 * Flint tells Silver about his relationship with Thomas.

Quotes
"Men like Thomas, need men like you."

- Miranda to James; XIII.

"Three months. Feels like twice as long."

- Thomas to James; XIII.

Fanon
On AO3, Flinthamilton is the most written ship for Thomas and the second most written for Flint. It is also the second most written ship in the Black Sails tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * T. Hamilton/Captain Flint on FanFiction.Net

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Variations

 * Flinthamiltons refers to the ship between Miranda Barlow, Flint and Thomas
 * Flint x Thomas x Silver refers to the ship between John Silver, Flint and Thomas