"A Different Hornbook" - Hornblower Fic

[lokei]

A Different Hornbook

By Lokei

Rating: PG-13
Universe: Hornblower, Maria/Horatio
Summary: She teaches a different lesson in the moonlight.

Disclaimer: CSF wrote them, I just try to make up for the way he treated them!
Author’s Note: for the Kink/Cliché challenge, prompt: writing.  Many thanks go to the brilliant beta skills of

Comments

[nolivingman]

Oh, this is beautiful and heartbreaking. The Lieutenant was so much better for her than the Captain.

And this slayed me:

we would come to bed, and you would hold me, not yourself

Perfectly painful.

[lokei]

The Lieutenant was a far gentler person, I think, before he decided command needed him to buckle all his softer instincts away.

Thank you!

[romanticalgirl]

You know I love this. So evocative and heartbreaking. Oh, Maria.

[lokei]

Thank you! Those two do break my heart.

[black_hound]

The Captain does not see me so well as the Lieutenant did.

*whistles* Talk about the great awful truth.

Me likes it lots. :D

[lokei]

Thank you! I have developed a great affection for Maria, even if it's rather painful.

[black_hound]

I gotta tell ya, the first time I read through that line I read it as "The Captain does not see me so well as the Lieutenant does", and I thought we were off to the races with a Bush/Maria fic. XD

Which is not a bad thing AT ALL. :D

[lokei]

*chuckle* Maybe next time.