A very sensitively written story.
Unfortunately much too short. I enjoyed it, but I would have liked to know so much more about everything ... Well, you have to make do with the crumbs.

“I thought…” Augustus squeezed at his elbow again. He remembered the constant teasing, others being hostile to him, simply because of the way he was born. “I thought, that there was something wrong with me.”
Damien kissed him in turn. “No. Of course, not,” he whispered. “Nothing was ever wrong with you, Augustus. You are fine as you are, my darling.” He slid an arm around Augustus’s waist, then pressed his mouth to his apprentice’s forehead. His free hand lingered against Augustus’s shoulder. “The people who treated you in such ways—they merely did not know better. But you are a wonderful man, a gentle soul, and a fine lover, at that, too.”