The reason I post this drawing is that recently I have reread
idler_1814's fanfiction "
Run Aground"
for ...I don't know how many times, and was so impressed with its climax - the reunion of Bush and Hornblower, supposed to happen just before the beginning of "Commodore Hornblower" - as usual.
I thank
idler_1814 for the inspiration.
"I mean NO, sir. I cannot accept it."
"But... there must be fifty captains ahead of you who would leap at this opportunity."
"Perhaps you might ask one of them, sir."
"Damn it, Bush, I do not want one of them. I want you, and I will have none other."
idler_1814"
Run Aground"