April Showers Prompt #5: Promise
Title: Promise
Author: litlover12
Prompt: #5 (Window)
Fandom: The King's Speech
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Bertie/Elizabeth
Genre: General
Rating & Warnings: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Set just after the incident with the marbles.
Elizabeth finds Bertie standing by the window in his study, silhouetted against the rainy twilight, and struggling with an obstinate lighter. She feels the tremor in his hands as she takes it from him, speaking low and soothingly, as she would to one of her children.
“Promise . . .” he says quietly. “Promise me, no more.”
Elizabeth looks deep into his eyes, then away, feeling his humiliation and hurt as though they were her own. But she says nothing.
To make that promise would be to give up on him. And they both know she will never do that.
Author: litlover12
Prompt: #5 (Window)
Fandom: The King's Speech
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Bertie/Elizabeth
Genre: General
Rating & Warnings: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Set just after the incident with the marbles.
Elizabeth finds Bertie standing by the window in his study, silhouetted against the rainy twilight, and struggling with an obstinate lighter. She feels the tremor in his hands as she takes it from him, speaking low and soothingly, as she would to one of her children.
“Promise . . .” he says quietly. “Promise me, no more.”
Elizabeth looks deep into his eyes, then away, feeling his humiliation and hurt as though they were her own. But she says nothing.
To make that promise would be to give up on him. And they both know she will never do that.