Possibilities: An Alternate Universe Drabble Series
I'm at it again. Didn't take me too long -editing drabbles is so easy. ^^
All said before stands but I'm too lazy to write out all that credit stuff.
Breach - 1585 AD, G \ Slash & Het (this is the sequel to Ice)
Coureur de Bois - 1608 AD, G \ GenFic
Duty & Law - 1755 AD, G \ Slash & GenFic (which Word reads as 101, because of the tilde [~])
War - 1812 AD, G \ Het & implied slash (if you squint and really want it to be)
The drabbles follow.
1585 AD - Breach (sequel to Ice)
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Will is busy scribbling in his journal, noting the amazing sight of the giant glaciers for his sweetheart back home to read. The words are cramped and awkward with cold, clinging close on the page. He almost misses the breaching whales with their breathtaking sprays of icy seawater. Sitting and staring, his lungs forget the necessity of air.
James chuckles, slapping Will on the shoulder, and teases him with friendly jibes about his writing and his naivete. Privately, he thinks it isn't a bad idea. He too has someone who would like to again hear of the far, white north.
1608 AD - Coureur de Bois
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As the only girl-child in the settlement, she lacks for proper playmates. Bold and audacious, she follows after Etienne whenever he is town, begging for stories. Someday, she dreams, she too will canoe river rapids and trade for furs with the wild savages of the woodlands.
Etienne finds her dreams amusing, and he warns her that the Church won't like her for it. She replies that she has never cared for the Church and her rules all that much anyhow. So for now, she runs around and plays coureur de bois, fierce with a long stick and crude slingshot.
1755 AD - Duty & Law
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He's an officer of the Navy. It's his duty to insure all of the Acadians board the ships. But there is one man he won't let.
He is a half-breed. Trapped between two worlds, he thinks he's chosen wrong, until a pair of familiar hands pulls him aside. Now, he chooses the other half.
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The English girl, Elizabeth, found him in his hiding place. He quails before her father, praying that he can stay in the only place that is home. She pleads for him and gets her way. He stays in the shed, and they have a free hired hand.
1812 AD - War
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Elizabeth and Will take in the two injured sailors who wash up on their beach. At first, they regret it. The British captain and American privateer are constantly at each other's throats, arguing. When they both join forces with Will and fight off the pirates who land in hopes of looting the small coastal village on the south shore, there are no more regrets.
Will tells her that the American saved the Brit's life, and Elizabeth believes him. There is no more bickering that night, or for many nights after. Two months later, the twins are named Jack and James.
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A/N: The settlement mentioned in "Coureur de Bois" is the beginnings of Quebec, and Etienne Brulè is the young man who is widely regarded as the first coureur de bois (fur trader-adventure-ers of the French in the New World, literally, courier of the woods). The French Catholic church excommunicated Etienne (or at the least, greatly disagreed with him), and mostly because he slept with Native women and lived a way of life very similar to that of the Natives. (Whereas, the Church was perfectly fine with 40-year-old Samuel de Champlain marrying a 14-year-old girl... *eyeroll*, and I'm Catholic myself, so I figure I'm allowed to complain. ^^). Just a historical tidbit I thought you lot might find interesting, it being a bit obscure and all. ^^ Thank God for backwater libraries with lovely old books.
All said before stands but I'm too lazy to write out all that credit stuff.
Breach - 1585 AD, G \ Slash & Het (this is the sequel to Ice)
Coureur de Bois - 1608 AD, G \ GenFic
Duty & Law - 1755 AD, G \ Slash & GenFic (which Word reads as 101, because of the tilde [~])
War - 1812 AD, G \ Het & implied slash (if you squint and really want it to be)
The drabbles follow.
1585 AD - Breach (sequel to Ice)
_______
Will is busy scribbling in his journal, noting the amazing sight of the giant glaciers for his sweetheart back home to read. The words are cramped and awkward with cold, clinging close on the page. He almost misses the breaching whales with their breathtaking sprays of icy seawater. Sitting and staring, his lungs forget the necessity of air.
James chuckles, slapping Will on the shoulder, and teases him with friendly jibes about his writing and his naivete. Privately, he thinks it isn't a bad idea. He too has someone who would like to again hear of the far, white north.
1608 AD - Coureur de Bois
_______
As the only girl-child in the settlement, she lacks for proper playmates. Bold and audacious, she follows after Etienne whenever he is town, begging for stories. Someday, she dreams, she too will canoe river rapids and trade for furs with the wild savages of the woodlands.
Etienne finds her dreams amusing, and he warns her that the Church won't like her for it. She replies that she has never cared for the Church and her rules all that much anyhow. So for now, she runs around and plays coureur de bois, fierce with a long stick and crude slingshot.
1755 AD - Duty & Law
_______
He's an officer of the Navy. It's his duty to insure all of the Acadians board the ships. But there is one man he won't let.
He is a half-breed. Trapped between two worlds, he thinks he's chosen wrong, until a pair of familiar hands pulls him aside. Now, he chooses the other half.
~
The English girl, Elizabeth, found him in his hiding place. He quails before her father, praying that he can stay in the only place that is home. She pleads for him and gets her way. He stays in the shed, and they have a free hired hand.
1812 AD - War
_______
Elizabeth and Will take in the two injured sailors who wash up on their beach. At first, they regret it. The British captain and American privateer are constantly at each other's throats, arguing. When they both join forces with Will and fight off the pirates who land in hopes of looting the small coastal village on the south shore, there are no more regrets.
Will tells her that the American saved the Brit's life, and Elizabeth believes him. There is no more bickering that night, or for many nights after. Two months later, the twins are named Jack and James.
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A/N: The settlement mentioned in "Coureur de Bois" is the beginnings of Quebec, and Etienne Brulè is the young man who is widely regarded as the first coureur de bois (fur trader-adventure-ers of the French in the New World, literally, courier of the woods). The French Catholic church excommunicated Etienne (or at the least, greatly disagreed with him), and mostly because he slept with Native women and lived a way of life very similar to that of the Natives. (Whereas, the Church was perfectly fine with 40-year-old Samuel de Champlain marrying a 14-year-old girl... *eyeroll*, and I'm Catholic myself, so I figure I'm allowed to complain. ^^). Just a historical tidbit I thought you lot might find interesting, it being a bit obscure and all. ^^ Thank God for backwater libraries with lovely old books.