Title: Drabble #15
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meralee82 Prompt: Professor Peter proposing to Heiress Rose
Notes: During the Support Stacie auction, I promised each of the bidders would receive a drabble. It didn’t matter how many bids you made-the rule was one drabble per bid.
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I suspect that in the back of his mind, he had this formless thought of some trad proposal in a suitably dramatic setting, versus just blurting it out down the pub. At least she hadn't just taken a sip when he asked. Hee!
So has he just been carrying around the family ring with him since Meg gave it to him, or is this a longer stretch of time than that?
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He was definitely thinking in terms of drama: in addition to the idea mentioned above, of setting up an elaborate *thing* to set in motion the proposal, he no doubt considered taking her to Dunnottar, or some other lovely set of windswept, romantic, ruins.
So has he just been carrying around the family ring with him since Meg gave it to him
He and Rose get engaged *very* quickly, relatively speaking. I suspect that Meg gave him the ring within two months* of him starting to see Rose; and that he's just always carried it in his pocket since. Not in case he suddenly decides to propose, but simply as a good luck charm, or touchstone.
*I *really* need to sketch out the timeline for this one... ;)
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Nothing like a successful proposal followed up by a celebratory outdoor shag? ;D
Not in case he suddenly decides to propose, but simply as a good luck charm, or touchstone.
So long as he remembers not to keep it in a pocket where Rose might find it during laundry procedures... although that could be a humorous ficlet in and of itself, Prof!Peter realizing he's left the ring in something Rose is likely to have to go through and having to go to pains to retrieve it before she finds it.
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Especially as, at this particular time, they haven't yet got around to shagging in the ruins. *g*
keep it in a pocket where Rose might find it during laundry procedures...
Heh. My knee-jerk is to say that it's Peter that does the laundry...but I think it's more of a "Enh, whoever has free time does it". But I think Peter is very, very careful to take that ring out of his trousers every evening; he has a change dish (with a lid), and the ring goes in there every night.
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Aww, lovely x
ps, love your new icon x x
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love your new icon
Thank you--that was a Christmas gift from angelfireeast.
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So much love.
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This actually provides a nice break for writing the DI/Field Agent; I went and wrote some of their adventures the other day, and realized how much I'd missed them. So, come January, I'll go back to them...and then hit the point where I miss writing the Prof/Heiress, and switch back...
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Ah, I think I can *safely* say, I'll not be writing to either of those.
But I guess I feel like I am invested in the DI/Field Agent characters and that the Prof/Heiress while a nice diversion are still strangers to me.
That makes sense :) I'm still figuring the Professor and the Heiress out, myself.
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I had wondered, briefly, if Rose would ask Peter to marry her...but then I figured she'd not want to push him, and so she'd wait.
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