Love Nor Money

[mrstater]

Title: Love Nor Money
Author: mrstater
Characters & Pairing: Mary Crawley/Richard Carlisle
Rating & Warnings: PG for innuendo
Word Count: 300
Summary: Mary and Richard are introduced at Cliveden for an obvious reason.

Comments

[bsg_aussiegirl]

"That leaves only one reason why two people might marry," Hee.

I wonder if we'll ever get to see Richard again?

[mrstater]

Goodness, I wish! Iain Glen has said there was a possible cameo in the works but I haven't seen anything official. :\

Oh, and could I get an author tag, please?

[bsg_aussiegirl]

Well it would make sense for him to reappear. His character didn't seem the type to just be thrown over by ol' Matty and cheerfully take it without some sort of... Maybe not completely vindictive revenge, but... I don't know, I think he would want the last word anyway.

Will create. :)

[epea_pteroenta]

Snarky, sexy and a missing scene we really need. Love it and more please? :)

[mrstater]

Yeah, I may just have to expand this. Thanks very much! :D

[gilpin25]

First meetings rank highly on my list of favourite reads, and this one seems full of (flirty!) potential seeing how Richard piques Mary's interest both for how he looks and then for what he says. At least until that sombre mention of Matthew gives a real sense of foreboding; the subject of war and death sitting uneasily alongside a dinner for the rich and notorious. I might guess that there are complicated times ahead! ;)

[mrstater]

I wanted to expand more on the contrast of the war with this party, but the challenge was fewer than 300 words. ;) I may go back and expand it into a proper first meeting fic, though! I have a hankering to do some playing around with canon-based missing scenes. Although I'm not sure I could bear to keep the unhappy ending. ;)

Thanks for reading!

[northeto]

I like this quite a bit. I am swept along by it. It also feels very much in character for them-they clearly are well-matched intellectually and in the way they think. There is also that sense of a bit of competition between the two of them, and a certain danger from their willingness to bend the rules of society to some degree.

[mrstater]

Thanks so much! I really wish we'd seen more of Richard and Mary bantering, because they are a good match intellectually and I think that must have been a great deal of their initial attraction. I pretty much ship them for all the reasons you mentioned, LOL.