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Fic Post: Just Like Honey

Jan 22, 2012 16:22

TITLE: Just Like Honey ( Read more... )

rating: slash, character: archie kennedy, pairing: hornblower/kennedy, character: other, author: rikibeth, fanworks: fanfiction, character: horatio hornblower

Comments 9

esmerelda_t January 23 2012, 21:12:29 UTC

Very nice, pity they dont make cough mixture like the used to. :D

rikibeth January 23 2012, 21:18:36 UTC

Damn straight! Well, we can get codeine, but it's just a shadow of it. Stephen wrote the prescription for a slightly higher strength than usual because he knew Archie hadn't been long weaned off laudanum-as-painkiller so his tolerance was still somewhat raised. I am such a nerd. I specifically intended it to hit with about the strength of a Tylenol 3 codeine tablet. And all the herbs are relaxing expectorants, not stimulating ones, so they'll thin and loosen any gunk in Archie's lungs WITHOUT making him cough any extra. I wish I had Stephen making my cough mixtures.

venusinfurs90 January 24 2012, 01:58:58 UTC

Eeee Maturin! <3 He is just perfect here.

rikibeth January 24 2012, 02:08:47 UTC

Note caption on my otherwise identical icon of him.

And yes. Who else could have saved Archie's life? He was even at the right place at the right time, with only a tiny bit of squinting. (He made his first cameo, by mention, in "Fortune and Men's Eyes", which happens a week before this one.) And in 1802, he was not yet at all wary of laudanum and overprescribing. He's quite naturally concerned with his patient's continued recovery.

I need to give him more dialogue. His speech patterns are too much fun to write.

venusinfurs90 January 24 2012, 21:27:54 UTC

That is an amazing icon, I raise my glass to it. XD

That's amazing, I hadn't made that cross-fandom connection! But knowing that Maturin was around the right place at the right time LKU is suddenly about 100x more plausible...

Maturin's dialogue is always gold. I love him.

rikibeth January 24 2012, 22:02:37 UTC

Jack and Stephen were aboard the Charwell in the Channel when they got the news of the Peace of Amiens. The Charwell was returning from the West Indies. I looked up typical travel times. Clearly, O'Brian just didn't bother to mention the stop in Kingston because it wasn't material to his story!

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anteros_lmc January 24 2012, 22:03:56 UTC

Lovely and sweet and dreamy. I love the image of Archie melting like honey. Mmmmm....very mmmmmm :)

rikibeth January 24 2012, 22:10:02 UTC

As Esmeralda said, they don't make cough mixtures like they used to... I'm glad you liked it!