Comment fic meme #2
After the first round of got_exchange we had a surprisingly successful comment fic meme going for a while (here's a list of all the fics that were written last time), so I thought it might be fun to do this again. (Like last time, it's posted on the mod account journal because I don't want to enable anonymous comments on the exchange community.)
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The first time Davos had said it, it had been a word breathed against Stannis' neck which he hoped would go unheard. He whispered it, like a secret he'd sworn never to repeat; there's guilt in it and desperation and need. He'd been younger then, more arrogant, caught up in his own victory, and when the Lord of Storm's End had asked him what he'd wanted he'd told him, bolder than anything, (insolent, he thinks now) "you, my lord".
Even then, he hadn't know what had provoked him to be so foolish. Maybe it was the looks Stannis Baratheon had been giving him, appraising and not well hidden, blue eyes fixed on him with something like intent. He would never say it now, given a second chance, not "you, my lord", but he'd been buoyed up by his own victory and thought he could do anything so why not that, why not ask Stannis Baratheon for a thing he seemed himself only too willing to give?
He'd been granted his request; and, with it, the closest thing to a smile he'd yet seen on Stannis Baratheon, a slight upward curve of the lip which he might not have noticed in another man.
It had been that night that he'd said it, for the first time, Stannis' name; breathed it against his skin whilst Stannis' hands bruised his hips. He wasn't sure then, and isn't now, if Stannis had heard it but he supposes that it doesn't matter.
Stannis had said, the following day, that what had passed could not be his prize, that he would give him a knighthood and a name, as his good services demanded. Davos had not argued. He had not asked again though, not for Stannis, even in spite of the looks that passed between them sometimes, catching them both unawares. And he had not addressed Stannis by name again, as if afraid that Stannis might remember that first time, as he so often did himself, speaking it as a whisper in the dark.
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Anyway: how are you, dear? It feels like aaaages since we spoke.
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I'm alright, though kind of madly busy since it's the end of term. And, yess, it does feel like a long time since we last spoke - probably not helped by my lack of LJ updates. Oops. How're you doing? Not completely drowning in work, I hope.
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Fitting title, considering that I was thinking of that exact poem. (Insert mad squeeing about Richard Siken here.)
So I love this, unsurprisingly. I find bold, cocky young Davos utterly intriguing. I had never thought of that before, but it makes sense and I love it. And younger Stannis smiling just a little bit ... and being all serious again the next day and insisting that Davos get a proper reward, and MOST OF ALL DAVOS NOT SAYING STANNIS' NAME AGAIN BECAUSE IT MIGHT REMEMBER HIM OF THAT ONE TIME OH MY GOD YES. I'd love to see a longer version of this because i really love the idea. And as rachel2205 said, Stannis' perspective would also be intriguing.
Also, you and your beautiful ideas need to post some prompts. ;)
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(Mad Richard Siken squeeing right back at you.)
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I definitely think Davos must have been a bit cocky to have even attempted to break the siege of Storm's End. But, yes, there so has to be a reason Davos never breaks the boundary of propriety regarding titles. I have no idea whether I'll ever get around to writing more of it or tackling Stannis' POV but you can always bug me about it. ;D
I really should post some prompts but I want them to be good ones. Hmm.
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Cocky Davos definitely makes sense. And he must have been a bit high on the success of breaking that siege, and Stannis -does- look so young that he might just dare to say something like that. I just have a weird obsession with names, especially when it comes to people whose names rarely used.
I will definitely bug you about a longer version because I want to know everything about this night. ;)
I just spam away with whatever I can think of. I always admire people who post such beautiful, concise, neat little prompts while I ramble on.
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At first I didn't believe that Davos would ever have the gall to make such a request of Stannis, but then again, he's the only one in the series who is ever able to "defy" (though with good reason) Stannis without getting himself killed--like the whole scene where Davos spirits away Edric Storm.
I second a request from many comments above to see this scene from Stannis' POV. Though, knowing him, he wouldn't be able to properly talk about in his own head.
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