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Honorverse: Colours: New World
Title: New World
Fandom: Honor Harrington Series - David Weber
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~ 200 words
Content notes: Spoilers through "Flag of Exile". Pre-Honor/Miranda. Prompt #023: Jade - List. femslash100 Prompt #315: Dress. Honorverse Femslash
Summary: Honor retreats to Grayson and gives up her uniform.
She's swapped her uniform (the one she built her identity on it) for the impractical gowns in ivory and jade (Harrington green as it's now to be known - all her guardsmen wear it as well - if she's ever allowed back to Manticore it's the colour her court dress would be trimmed in). She can't run in the dresses - can't fight - is still working out how to command in them (they took away the stars, but her Harringtons still look to her, listen to her, even though she wonders why).
The gowns come with a need for a maid. With a new way of life that's not the one she wanted, but she's passed the point where she could have pulled the trigger herself, so she'll make this life her own.
Andrew offers her Miranda, and Honor finds another anchor to life. Miranda and Andrew and Nimitz are the only ones who touch her now Paul's gone. Andrew is the one who keeps her whole physically; Nimitz is holding her mind together ... and as Miranda touches her, dresses her, she slides beneath her skin, and brings Honor to life again briefly (she's not ready to ask for anything more - she doesn't deserve anything more - anything more would still be a betrayal - the memory of Paul is still too raw).
Fandom: Honor Harrington Series - David Weber
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~ 200 words
Content notes: Spoilers through "Flag of Exile". Pre-Honor/Miranda. Prompt #023: Jade - List. femslash100 Prompt #315: Dress. Honorverse Femslash
Summary: Honor retreats to Grayson and gives up her uniform.
She's swapped her uniform (the one she built her identity on it) for the impractical gowns in ivory and jade (Harrington green as it's now to be known - all her guardsmen wear it as well - if she's ever allowed back to Manticore it's the colour her court dress would be trimmed in). She can't run in the dresses - can't fight - is still working out how to command in them (they took away the stars, but her Harringtons still look to her, listen to her, even though she wonders why).
The gowns come with a need for a maid. With a new way of life that's not the one she wanted, but she's passed the point where she could have pulled the trigger herself, so she'll make this life her own.
Andrew offers her Miranda, and Honor finds another anchor to life. Miranda and Andrew and Nimitz are the only ones who touch her now Paul's gone. Andrew is the one who keeps her whole physically; Nimitz is holding her mind together ... and as Miranda touches her, dresses her, she slides beneath her skin, and brings Honor to life again briefly (she's not ready to ask for anything more - she doesn't deserve anything more - anything more would still be a betrayal - the memory of Paul is still too raw).