Fic: The Broken Lock

[unsentimentalf]

Title: The Broken Lock
Author: Unsentimental Fool
Fandom: Master and Commander
Characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4,200
Summary: Stephen is caught in flagrante delicto, and faces the most serious of consequences
Notes: Set early in The Mauritius Command, with a few minor changes. Thanks to alltoseek for the invaluable beta

Comments

[alltoseek]

Still just as fun to read the, uh, sixth, seventh? time :D :D :D

We haven't had such a great quarrel between the two men since the Weir's film :-)

Bird-watching!Stephen and oblivious!Jack: May they never change <3 <3 <3

[esteven]

Give me a heart-attack, why don't you?! What an argument between them. That does not happen often, maybe once in PC and once at the Cape.
*sighs*

...but Stephen knew green-eyed jealousy when he saw it.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
*ponders*
*g*

[derien]

And at least he can honestly tell Jack that it WAS in the line of his work, even if not his medical work. :)

[rifleman_s]

"There was time enough to consider everything, time to act, if he chose to act, slowly and with enormous caution. Jack was still no-one but Jack Aubrey and he was always and most definitely still Stephen Maturin, and not inclined in the slightest to sentiment or wishful thinking."

Arguments (and more) between them are never nice to read, but at least they know each other well enough to resolve things in the end.

[josbanks]

Very nicely done!