Title: Delirien
Author:
lareinenoireFandom: Shakespeare - 1 Henry VI (roughly), with flashbacks to Henry V
Characters / Pairings: The York family, the Lancaster family, the Neville family, Richard/Cecily, Humphrey/Eleanor, eventual Margaret/Suffolk, Margaret/Henry.
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 21,332
Warnings: More disputed wills than strictly necessary, Epic Legal Fail (Chancery), violence, gratuitous Shakespeare references, and an excess of Strauss. Also WWI-era trench warfare, childbirth, and some profanity.
Summary: In the giddy years of the early twentieth century, the families of York and Lancaster seem to have come to an uneasy truce when Humphrey Lancaster befriends young Richard York and offers him a chance to mend his wrecked fortunes. What neither of them anticipates is the war that will destroy everything they know.
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Part III ~
Epilogue Fanmix by
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