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[esmerelda_t]

Hornblower, Rated R. Warning for...het. :P Title take from An Arudnel Tomb

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[nodbear]

I am so pleased you have this finished and am looking forward to it - though I suspect I am going to be sad - but nearly asleep on feet here so proper read and comment in due course

[nodbear]

and ps - have you seen the actual Arundal tomb ever? That could be a different kind of fangirl outing one day -when you are a fledged driver maybe !

the poem's justly famous last line is one thing but using this one was a nice touch...

[esmerelda_t]

I haven't and yes one day we shall go on an outing! Look forward to reading your thoughts.

[anteros_lmc]

Dammit you are an evil, evil woman!! That was so frighteningly plausible that I was actually scared to read on down the page. Seriously! Somehow you've managed to keep everyone perfectly in character while twisting all their relationships into a completely different version of the tale. Archie and Barbara are just brilliant, his anger and resentment in particular are horribly real. Well done! I think :}

Now if you'll excuse me I think I need to go and look at pictures of fluffy bunnies or something to recover ;)

[esmerelda_t]

One day I'll have Bartholomew stumble into all these verses putting them right, like Back to the Future! :P

[anteros_lmc]

I would advise Bartholomew to stay put! If he stumbled into this particular universe the elephant would probably sit on him!

[eglantine_br]

Well. You have broken my heart, I think. I feel so sorry for all of them. Anteros is right. Fully, terrifyingly plausible. And everyone doing their best, which is most horrible. (Not you, you are of course not horrible! But the story aches...)

[esmerelda_t]

I think Archie and Barbara would have been quite content, they have David to dote on and each other to be sarcastic with.

And as for Horatio, well he has his glorious career. Bet it doesnt keep him warm at night though.

[anteros_lmc]

Bet it doesnt keep him warm at night though.
Bet Mariette doesn't either. She's a bit skinny ;)

Actually that's completely unfair I hope she finds someone a bit more human to warm her nights when Horatio is off being glorious.

[eglantine_br]

Maybe they will all love each other, into doddering old age. Stranger things have surely happened. But-- it is still sad.

[esmerelda_t]

Who knows what a sequel might bring!

[vsee]

That was horrid, and I mean that in the best possible way. Ouch. :D An awful, very plausible scenario and very well told.

[esmerelda_t]

Thanks. :D It's always in the back of your mind when you write an AU if people will find it plausible so it's nice when they do!

[nodbear]

What is so plausible is that it starts as reaction to jealousy and hurt and it ends up spiralling into destruction that reaches ever wider...

I wonder how often betrayal is just that- part intention and more often than not also a byproduct of pain and justified by what seems like the high ground but in fact is anything but

it is perhaps a commonplace that you cannot be betrayed except by someone you love = to wax biblial for a momnent (it was not a stranger who betrayed me, it was you, my own particular friend, which is a sort of paraphrase of the psalms) but I think that is what feels like it is the strength of the reality of this .

So, yes you are a terrible woman :) but only in the sense that to the poet Rilke angels are terrible- and magnificent,- and also as in the sense that the truth is sometimes terrible- well done.

* however, wimps out now and goes in search of bunnies and spring lambs and things *