The Silver Razor: Spithead

[anteros_lmc]

Title: The Silver Razor: Spithead
Author: Anteros
Characters: Archie Kennedy
Rating: R
Notes: Continuing the story of Archie's silver razor.

Comments

[rikibeth]

Oh, oh, oh.

He has it. Most of what was in his sea-chest had to go, to preserve the illusion, but Horatio took that, and his volume of the sonnets, when he thought it was to remember him by.

So he has it. And still shaves himself with it, rather than leave the job to his valet.

He doesn't shave Horatio any more, not the way Mr. Bush saw. It doesn't seem so easy to get away with in a London town house as it was belowdecks. Horatio has his own, and the handle is ivory.

But Archie still has his silver razor.

[anteros_lmc]

I am very glad to hear that Archie still has his razor and is still making good use of it. I see he has followed his father's habit of dispensing with the services of a valet :)

This particular razor had a rather different fate...

[rikibeth]

Oh, he HAS a valet, or, rather, he has a manservant, who combines the functions of valet and butler, as Archie keeps a modest establishment: one valet/butler, one cook/housekeeper, two general-purpose housemaids (cleaning, cooking, washing-up, laundry, etc. -- that's why there are two) and a coachman. Harding's valeting duties as opposed to butlering duties mostly consist of brushing dog hair off coats and breeches, and making sure Horatio has new stockings before they get entirely threadbare and full of holes (they are quite naturally a disgrace whenever he comes home from sea).

You don't do Live Kennedy, I know. You tell your story, I'll tell mine. :-(

[bauhiniakapok]

Oddly enough, I like both Live Kennedy (because I just want to be happy, all right?) and Dead Kennedy (because his death is just so noble and heartbreaking and traaaagic, and it makes me weep floods of cathartic tears, and anyway I read the books so I can't quite reconcile Barbara with Bartholomew, because that's not WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, and Horatio cheated on Barbara anyway which I never really forgave him for, as much as I liked him otherwise, so maybe he wouldn't have lived happily ever after with Archie either...) So I'm glad there are so many wonderful writers with different takes on the same story.