Drabble #15

Dec 18, 2008 08:54

Title: Drabble #15
Written for: 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.

Drabble Number Fifteen )

heiress rose, what if, support stacie drabble, professor peter

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principia December 18 2008, 15:44:29 UTC
He’d been wanting to say the words for days; had been working out how to ask-where to ask-and when.

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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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 16:03:01 UTC
he had this formless thought of some trad proposal in a suitably dramatic setting,

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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principia December 18 2008, 16:21:42 UTC
...he no doubt considered taking her to Dunnottar...

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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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 16:28:45 UTC
Nothing like a successful proposal followed up by a celebratory outdoor shag?

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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liber_noctuae December 18 2008, 16:57:43 UTC
awwww. Hopeful prof peter is giving DI peter a run for his money in the cuteness department. Glad I read this before I go to do vacuuming, as the fuzzy feeling will make it go faster :)

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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 17:01:42 UTC
...vacuuming? Ugh, good luck with that. Although...I do reckon Rose has come home to find Peter vacuuming in the altogether (as part of a massive seduction scheme on his part, of course).

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liber_noctuae December 18 2008, 17:06:39 UTC
mmm now I know vacuuming will be nicer. If I was Rose I couldn't resist a naked, vacuuming Peter ;)

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salimali December 18 2008, 17:02:49 UTC
Ok, she did say yes didn't she? (I know she did marry him, but she agreed right away...yes?)

Aww, lovely x

ps, love your new icon x x

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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 17:04:21 UTC
Rose doesn't keep Peter on tenterhooks, no. :)

love your new icon

Thank you--that was a Christmas gift from angelfireeast.

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aibhinn December 18 2008, 17:29:36 UTC
Awww! *sniffle* I love these two so, so much. I'd almost be willing for you to stop writing DI/field agent and just concentrate on these two for, like, EVER. (Almost.)

So much love.

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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 17:45:12 UTC
I'd almost be willing for you to stop writing DI/field agent and just concentrate on these two

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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justlook3 December 18 2008, 18:10:59 UTC
I hope you continue switching back and forth. I think I'm in the minority because I've been itching for the month to be over and be back to DI/Field Agent. These are lovely, really they are and I don't hate them, I couldn't hate anything you wrote (unless you went all crazy and started writing my squicks which are currently fics turning Duplicate Ten into someone evil and Doctor/Donna (cuz eeeww)). 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. I suppose this makes no sense. ;-)

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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 18:36:01 UTC
you went all crazy and started writing my squicks which are currently fics turning Duplicate Ten into someone evil and Doctor/Donna

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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justlook3 December 18 2008, 18:12:51 UTC
Awww. :-) That sounds familiar, a blurted proposal. Chuckle, at least it wasn't in a parking lot!

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jlrpuck_fic December 18 2008, 18:36:54 UTC
Hee!

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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justlook3 December 18 2008, 18:52:41 UTC
Well I do have to give my man credit, technically the blurted proposal in the parking lot was the one with the ring and he'd asked me to "consider marrying him someday" in a much more romantic fashion, but then when it actually came to the real proposal, it was like "Here's the ring." And I said, "Um and?" LOL.

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