A Letter Unwritten

Sep 09, 2006 00:38

Title: A Letter Unwritten
Fandom: Jane Austen, Persuasion
Character: Mr. Elliot
Rating: General audiences
Length: 125 words
Summary: I might have cared for you, you know.
Notes: Originally posted at fic_on_demand for indeliblefancy's unrequited love request.



A Letter Unwritten

{Found torn in a bureau drawer, in unruly scrawl, on the other side of what had become scrap paper. Something thought better of, the maid believed.}

Anne ~

I might have cared for you, you know. It was not all play-acting, those days in Bath. All I have said to you is has been, in its nature and fact, true. For your wit and your competence I admire you. For your beauty and cleverness I flatter you. And since that morning in Lyme, I have noticed you. But it seems you had other thoughts, of me and for my regard.

I wish you a future with Captain Wentworth, and shall remain distantly yours if for no other reason than that I am

Mr. Wm. Elliot

jane austen, persuasion, epistolary

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