What the log doesn’t tell the Admiralty cannot censure...

[nodbear]

Title: What the log doesn’t tell the Admiralty cannot censure...
Authors: Alex Broughton (aka Nodbear) and Anteros
Characters: Sir Edward Pellew and the historical crew of HMS Indefatigable
Rating: R
Notes: This original story is the second half of a piece written jointly by Alex and Anteros for the Speak Its Name Advent Calendar called An Age of

Comments

[eglantine_br]

Oh, that was so worth the wait! Such a feeling of kindness, and joy, as well as tired and cold.

I can just see Cadogan hopping from one foot to the other. And the pleasure the older men took in surprising the younger ones with special food and drink.

Really evocative. And the knowledge that they were all real, this time... Big goosebumps here in Brooklyn!

Thank you, thank you both.

[nodbear]

Thank you so much Eglantine for troubling to comment on here and on speakitsname also - you are a dear ( but then we knew that )
we are so glas you enjoyed this
and for causing bug goosebumps in Brooklyn - that is greaat to know
HAPpy Christmas
and talking of goose bumps - yesterday one of the sets of documents we reently ordered came through the fog of the delayled Christmas mail and has given me the goosebumps - it is the real view of a midshipman who joiend Pellew's ship the Tonnant in 1804 by which time Pellew was captain of that veryt smart ship of the line and his first lieutenant was none than George Bell- who by this time had like John thomson before him, made the leap from Sailing master to commissioned rank..
I am going to post some of it on FS and LJ today as a Christmas addendum
and I am going to start doing justice to all your lovely H And A fic I have been missing- hooray ( for your fic that is .its more like boo for me for dawdling as the CAptain might say