Fic: reason free from passion
Here is the Vorhalas fic! It's for the wild card of my h/c bingo, because when I looked down the list of prompts, 'forced to rely on an enemy' leaped out at me waving its arms and shrieking like an overexcited toddler. I didn't get it on my card, but I had a plot bunny for it anyway, involving Aral and Vorhalas because what else would I do?
Working title for this was 'keeping watch in the night'. Oh, and 'none dare call it treason', this one has got through a lot of titles, but Aristotle outlasted them all. It also grew to about five times what I expected its original length to be, somehow stuff just kept on happening and the end turned out to be much further away than I'd expected. And because I'm me, what was meant to be some fairly straightforward darkish h/c sprouted Barrayaran legal and feudal complications in all sorts of unexpected directions. And while this is for h/c bingo and is more or less h/c, there's a lot more h than c in this one.
I am not as a rule one for playlists for stories, but I wrote this one with Ye Jacobites By Name (what is right and what is wrong by the law ... and haunt a parent's life wi' bloody war), The Witch of the Westmorland (pale was the wounded knight... also I think that's where the black mare came from), and MacDonnell on the Heights repeating an awful lot.
Many thanks to raspberryhunter for beta-reading.
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Title: reason free from passion
Tags: forced to rely on an enemy, hurt/comfort, loyalty, gen, 14490 words
Summary: On the second day of Vordarian's Pretendership, Count Vorhalas has an unwelcome visitor.
reason free from passion (link to AO3 as it's too big for a post here)
Working title for this was 'keeping watch in the night'. Oh, and 'none dare call it treason', this one has got through a lot of titles, but Aristotle outlasted them all. It also grew to about five times what I expected its original length to be, somehow stuff just kept on happening and the end turned out to be much further away than I'd expected. And because I'm me, what was meant to be some fairly straightforward darkish h/c sprouted Barrayaran legal and feudal complications in all sorts of unexpected directions. And while this is for h/c bingo and is more or less h/c, there's a lot more h than c in this one.
I am not as a rule one for playlists for stories, but I wrote this one with Ye Jacobites By Name (what is right and what is wrong by the law ... and haunt a parent's life wi' bloody war), The Witch of the Westmorland (pale was the wounded knight... also I think that's where the black mare came from), and MacDonnell on the Heights repeating an awful lot.
Many thanks to raspberryhunter for beta-reading.
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Title: reason free from passion
Tags: forced to rely on an enemy, hurt/comfort, loyalty, gen, 14490 words
Summary: On the second day of Vordarian's Pretendership, Count Vorhalas has an unwelcome visitor.
reason free from passion (link to AO3 as it's too big for a post here)