Short Fic: The Governess

[erinya]

Title: The Governess
Rating: PG
Pairings: Pre-Will/Elizabeth.
Disclaimer: Use does not imply ownership.
Summary: Young Elizabeth, the terror of Port Royal, meets her match. Inspired by BPS drabble challenge "Blossom," but not a drabble by any definition, as it weighs in around 2000 words. Oops. This is what happens when one reads too much Austen

Comments

[honorat]

How absolutely lovely. Poor Governor Swann. He does seem to have found himself in the suds! Funny how a man who can run a colony is routed by one small brown replica of his wife.

I had to make Will walk the plank

Hahahahahah! I love this whole passage. This is just so her. And then papa wondering if this is quite normal. LOL.

when it came time to enact the most daring rescues, the damsel in question was more often than not the hero of the day,

Of course, she would be. Elizabeth doesn’t do “Damsel in Distress.” You’ve written a perfect picture of the engaging little tomboy she must have been. It is to her governess’s credit that she kept all that spirit, while adding social grace to her arsenal.

Elizabeth was currently indulging in the kind of angry tantrum that only thirteen and spoiled can muster

Really Miss Swann. You need a change in tactics!

his best friend was a girl, it suddenly seemed a much more important difference than it ever had been before.

Wonderful little moment of revelation for Will. Yay for differences!

And clever Miss Thorne, to find the key to a child’s heart and win her with diplomacy rather than war. I love the picture of Will and Elizabeth reading together.

After all that, Miss Thorne certainly deserves her happily-ever-after ending. I wonder what she will think of the change in her pupil’s life when she hears of it?

As always, you write beautifully my dear. Such a treat. *offers chocolate to your muse*

[erinya]

What a nice long comment! Thank you Honorat!

I really liked the image of the two "kids" reading together, too--I'd had it in my head for awhile and this story gave me a chance to explore it. And I don't think Miss Thorne will be at all surprised when Elizabeth marries her blacksmith--I see her as a Miss Taylor/Mrs. Weston type character to Elizabeth's Emma, and probably knows where Elizabeth's affections lie better than the lass does herself.

Mmm, chocolate. The muse is made happy. :-)