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All There Is To Tell (1/2)

Oct 03, 2011 13:14

Title: All There Is To Tell (1/2)
Author: Anteros
Characters: Kennedy / Hornblower
Rating: PG-13
Notes: POW fic. Set after and before Hornblower and Kennedy return to Ferrol. Long, grim and really not very cheerful.

( Kennedy had returned to El Ferrol with understandably mixed feelings )

hornblower, character: horatio hornblower, character: archie kennedy, prisoners of war, fanworks: fanfiction

Comments 18

anacoretta October 4 2011, 15:00:03 UTC

Waiting inpatiently! and sorry for intrusion ;)

anteros_lmc October 4 2011, 21:45:13 UTC

Hello anacoretta and sorry to keep you waiting :} Part 2 is now up. And please feel free to intrude any time. Intruders are always welcome round here!

anacoretta October 5 2011, 14:36:13 UTC

Grabbing it with a bow. Delighted to see it's rather a big part to induldge in:) Sure enough i'll show up again, enjoy your strong writing!

anteros_lmc October 5 2011, 20:15:04 UTC

Thankyou! And erm yes part 2 is rather long and rather grim, but I really wanted to tell the whole of Archie's story from the Gironde to his arrival at Ferrol.

And if you haven't had quite enough of depressing prison fic by then, the story of what happened to Kennedy at Ferrol is told in Flotsam, All Our Sons and After The Storm.

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anacoretta October 7 2011, 07:46:43 UTC

Ooh.. nice. I'll take a break AFTER those three heart-breakers. Won't spoil the angsty moment i'm already in :)

Thanks for the Trousers.

And, great second part! Poignant to no end. Horatio would be surely much better off as he did. No words would work, but a protective defensive embrace if anything at all. And years of repairing of guilt and "betrayal" ;)

anteros_lmc October 7 2011, 23:53:03 UTC

Glad you liked the second part. Have you not expired of teh angst yet?! ;)

No words would work, but a protective defensive embrace if anything at all.
Yes. Definitely. When I wrote this, Archie's dialogue seemed to follow it's own arc until it stopped quite suddenly. Almost as if he had got tired of talking. And for Horatio, there really was nothing he could put into words at that point. Sometimes a quiet embrace speaks volumes though.

years of repairing of guilt and "betrayal" ;)
Yeah, I'm not sure Horatio ever really forgives himself. I don't think he really knows how to.