Prologue
Part I
Part II
Part III

Epilogue: Et in Arcadia, ego

( For the first time in what seemed like decades, Anne Perrivale's once-famed roses bloomed, transforming the arbour at Carnarvon into a riot of white and yellow, framed by the red blooms Eleanor had ordered the gardeners to plant when the others refused to grow. )

Prologue
Part I
Part II

iii. Posterity, await for wretched years
When at their mothers' moistened eyes babes shall suck,
Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,
And none but women left to wail the dead.
--Henry VI, Part I (I.i.48-51)

( Just a few words, love. The stories we've heard have been the stuff of nightmares. )

Prologue
Part I

ii. 'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division--
There comes the ruin, there breeds confusion.
--Henry VI, Part I (IV.i.192-4)

( Humphrey Lancaster hadn't intended to argue with his brother on his wedding day. )

Prologue

i. This quarrel will drink blood another day
--Henry VI, Part I (II.iv.133)

( Richard York had spent much of the journey to the Savoy trying to formulate the best way to introduce himself to Henry Lancaster. )

Title: Delirien
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom: Shakespeare - 1 Henry VI (roughly), with flashbacks to Henry V
Characters / Pairings: The York family, the Lancaster family, the Neville family, Richard/Cecily, Humphrey/Eleanor, eventual Margaret/Suffolk, Margaret/Henry.
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 21,332
Warnings: More disputed wills than strictly necessary, Epic ( Read more... )