FIC: Thou Wilt Quake For This (9/9)

[tkel_paris]

Title: Thou Wilt Quake For This
Genre: Much Ado About Nothing
Rating: T (except for the DVD extra)
Author: tkel_paris
Summary: Benedick and Beatrice have found themselves forced to marry. While their family and friends are determined to make them fall in love, a chance emerges to expose the villains who trapped them. Can they succeed and protect Hero?

Comments

[inward_audacity]

*patiently (not really) waits for the DVD extra

[tkel_paris]

Tomorrow at the latest. :)

Well, get Hero mad enough and she joins the ranks. Here I think she was in too much shock.

Benedick is naturally proud of Beatrice, and honored and humbled to call her his wife. And no way Don Jon will be prepared. ;)

Why do you think Benedick has little fondness for the man? And yet he is better than his own father. (Makes you wonder how bad such a scene would've been with a father like that. *shudders*) Yeah, slightly. Maybe a bit more than in the play or in any of the other fics I've written. Why do you think Benedick had to use Leonato's honor against him in "Seals of Love" to ensure he let him defend Hero's honor?

Yeah, it would've served Claudio right if Hero choice that instead, or worse that she found someone else. Someday I might write that. And no way she'd take the Prince when he bought the lies.

Never apologize for a long comment. I love them. *hugs* They're almost like medicine since I've been unwell. :)

[inward_audacity]

I shall do everything I can to not go crazy while waiting for it (:

I agree. She's probably in too much shock to know how to react. I hope when she does recover, she'll make them quiver in fear.

Yeah. Sadly. This man, while I believe he does love his daughter very much, loves himself and his reputation more. Which is really sad when you think about it. Poor Hero. I always thought of her as a Daddy's girl and to have your father think of you like that is just horrible. At least she has Benedick and Beatrice to care for her.

Please write it. I want Hero to find someone more deserving of her. Claudio needs to be taught a lesson, even one as painful as losing her. If he truly loves her, he would have believed her. He would have stood by her and do everything in his power to prove her innocence. Like Leonato, he loves himself more.

I'm sorry you're feeling unwell. That makes the two of us. *hugs* Feel better!

[tkel_paris]

I've been trying to work on other stories today and yesterday, with varying success. So I have my own madness to contend with.

Hero was the one to denature Don John in "Glance of Love". Give her time.

Reputation. You know the irony in that? In not knowing your child enough your reputation and honor are damaged anyway. So Leonato is worse off than he would have been had he challenged the accusation from the start. Never mind Claudio.

Let me find the right setting for it. Maybe one of the next stories I have in mind.

Thanks. *hugs* You feel better soon, too. (And as always, feel free to reread and comment on anything in any chapter. I expect to be posting something else in addition to the DVD extra soon. Not MAAN. DW.)

[dm12]

Can't wait for the DVD Extra! Benedick did promise he would take care to ensure she enjoyed their wedding night. As he's a man of his word, I'm sure she will. I see he's already looking forward to descendants

[tkel_paris]

Am going to post it in a bit. Assuming I don't collapse from being tired first. This cold is knocking me for a loop, and I may have to request subs for tomorrow's classes. :(

Would you expect anything less from Benedick? I think he's really looking forward to raising his own little Beatrice. :)

Good. The contrast worked. And Beatrice carried on the charge for the women, surprisingly led by Innogen. :)

Yeah. Exactly.

Thank you. I'm honored.

[dm12]

Feel better, post it when you can.

Ooh, a little Beatrice, won't that be fun! Or lots of little Beatrices and Benedicks running around... all of that wit!

[tkel_paris]

Posted. And thank you.

*giggles* They'll have their hands full. ;D

[sykira]

I'm commenting before I've barely started this chapter, before I've got carried away as I have done, getting caught up in the romance, but I do keep meaning to say your Shakespearean dialogue is utterly SPECTACULAR. If I didn't know this play by heart I wouldn't know that you've made so much up from scratch and yet woven it seamlessly into actual lines from the play. I am so amazed by that. It's that very challenge that both stumped and spurred me me when it came to writing mine--how on earth to recreate this lyrical roundabout way of speaking that communicates while often not saying that at all. You do it not just impeccably, but poetically, and that's part of why you really REALLY could and should just re-work the Josie-specific references out of this and publish it, hon, because writing like Shakespeare is a rare skill indeed!

[sykira]

...as Beatrice joined Benedick at the altar: he offered his left hand - palm upwards - to her. She placed her right hand over his, apparently accepting his protection implicitly. Then Benedick covered her hand with his other and drew her nearer.

Is this a tradition thing? I absolutely LOVE it!

And I love Benedick making sure Hero is out of harm's way with Bea before everything goes down and I ADORE Innogen smacking Don John a good one YUSSSSSSS! Brilliant!

[sykira]

"and yet I would be cautious in accepting him again, Cousin: a man who trust'd his lady as half himself having taken the time to know her ways would have never been so deceiv'd no matter how much drink was plied into his stomach.”"

YES! SOOOOO much wiser than how it actually ended to have Claudio held to account and do penance, and work his way back to Hero's good graces (and bloody well grow up a bit while he's at it!) but I think sadly at the time people were so misogynistic it just would have translated as Hero being rejected at the altar if the marriage hadn't gone ahead there and then :(

[tkel_paris]

Hmm... I'm wanting to write one where Hero gets to make another choice. I'll have to think about the social mores that would permit that. I think it'd be up to Benedick presenting it in such a way that Leonato's own honor can be used to defend his taking Hero back. Maybe. We'll see.

I liked that line of mine. Thought it was genius. :)

[sykira]

If nothing else had proved that they entered this marriage innocent of the charges against them, the overwhelming passion unleashed right then would. Nothing done in sin could account for this enthusiasm in an embrace. This was the touch between a pair whose passions had long been suppressed.

muwhahahaahahaha

oh I am punch-drunk tired but there are so many levels I can read this on! One does not even need to be a DT/CT shipper AT ALL to acknowledge they have sexual tension in SPADES and then of course there's the carryover from Ten and Donna!

Oh and I loved his speech at the end there, interesting choice! So do they dance then??

[tkel_paris]

This is what Maria had an inkling of and snapped at Hero and Margaret for, because she knew that they'd need no help. Maria feared that any "help" would do the opposite. She is protective of her lady.

I wish I could describe my tiredness as punch-drunk. That'd be more pleasant than what I do have. Hence enjoying some good stuff like this - whether Ten/Donna or Ben/Bea. :D

Heh! Dancing, indeed! ;D