Vasty Heights (10305 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom:
Henry IV Part 1 - Shakespeare,
Sir Gawain and the Green KnightRating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bertilak de Hautdesert / Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), Hotspur/Kate Percy, Lady Bertilak / Hotspur, Hotspur / Douglas (implied)
Characters: Henry "Hotspur" Percy, Bertilak de Hautdesert, Lady Bertilak, Earl of Douglas (Henry IV), Kate Percy, Henry IV of England, Bardolph, Henry V of England, Morgan le Fay, Thomas Percy Earl of Worcester, Duke of Aumerle (Richard II)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Implied Bardolph, Uncertain Dialect Usage, Fantasy, Various Objectionable Attitudes, Bisexuality, Good mouth-filling oaths, Coming when you do call for them, Alternate History, No rocks fall no-one dies, Decapitation, Tilting at lips, Punning on arms
Summary:
It wasn’t that he didn’t notice that there was something odd from the start... It was just that it was Christmas night, everyone was half-drunk and bored daft and Sir Henry Percy was a knight of the Garter, Warden of the east marches, Royal Lieutenant in Wales, not a peasant to be affrighted by bogles, wodwos and salvage men nor a florid Celt to speak credulously of trepidations, portents and freaks.
(The dreams were another thing, another thing entirely, only a fool could fail to see the difference.)
Of course it was a pleasantry. There was nothing else on earth it could have been.