Unsent Letters Reveal (plus a bonus!)
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unsent_letters_exchange I was assigned to luzula again, presumably on the strength of our sharing so many very rare fandoms. However, I thought Luzula might be entertained by receiving not-the-usual from me, so I decided to branch out into a new-to-me fandom, albeit one I was very familiar with via osmosis: Pride and Prejudice.
Luzula's request was for Elizabeth/Darcy/Colonel Fitzwilliam, inspired in part by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
AMarguerite's Soulmark AU An Ever-Fixed Mark, an excellent series that I've read and enjoyed. However, I wasn't about to review a half-million words of fic for this assignment, and the request was officially for the novel anyway, so I figured I was in the clear to start fresh.
So I picked up the novel, read through the bit at Rosings Park (which contains all the Colonel Fitzwilliam material that exists in the novel), had a nifty little idea for a fic, and sat down to write it...
...and remembered halfway through thatunsent_letters_exchange is an epistolary exchange. (*looks askance at my story of Darcy and Fitzwilliam sitting around in their shirtsleeves without a pen in sight*) Whoops. Never mind, Luzula would enjoy it as a bonus story after reveals.
As it turned out, that false start ended up being a prequel of the (epistolary!) story I did gift her, which was a little bit awkward, because that required finagling my official fill so it could be enjoyed as a stand-alone, but I'm reasonably pleased with how it all came out.
Together, the series is called A Message Will Bring Me and features Fitzwilliam and Darcy in an established relationship, trying to navigate whether/how/on-what-terms Darcy proposes marriage to Miss Bennet. I may or may not add to the series someday; as it is, I have another partial story in draft and books on the shelf to research it.*
Major props tophoenixfalls, who insisted I go back and make both stories better (she was right, they are better), and to grrlpup, for her willing ear and speedy copyedits.
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* I asked the library for books on the Peninsular War. It tried to sell me on a bunch of Sharpe novels. Thank you but no. I need another long-eighteenth-century military fandom like I need another hole in my head.
unsent_letters_exchange I was assigned to luzula again, presumably on the strength of our sharing so many very rare fandoms. However, I thought Luzula might be entertained by receiving not-the-usual from me, so I decided to branch out into a new-to-me fandom, albeit one I was very familiar with via osmosis: Pride and Prejudice.Luzula's request was for Elizabeth/Darcy/Colonel Fitzwilliam, inspired in part by
So I picked up the novel, read through the bit at Rosings Park (which contains all the Colonel Fitzwilliam material that exists in the novel), had a nifty little idea for a fic, and sat down to write it...
...and remembered halfway through that
unsent_letters_exchange is an epistolary exchange. (*looks askance at my story of Darcy and Fitzwilliam sitting around in their shirtsleeves without a pen in sight*) Whoops. Never mind, Luzula would enjoy it as a bonus story after reveals.As it turned out, that false start ended up being a prequel of the (epistolary!) story I did gift her, which was a little bit awkward, because that required finagling my official fill so it could be enjoyed as a stand-alone, but I'm reasonably pleased with how it all came out.
Together, the series is called A Message Will Bring Me and features Fitzwilliam and Darcy in an established relationship, trying to navigate whether/how/on-what-terms Darcy proposes marriage to Miss Bennet. I may or may not add to the series someday; as it is, I have another partial story in draft and books on the shelf to research it.*
An Evening at Rosings
Pride and Prejudice
Darcy/Fitzwilliam, Darcy/Lizzy
Missing Scene, Polyamory, The Poignancy of Not Calling the Shots
He was not so attached to Miss Bennet as to feel a pang at yielding preference to his cousin, but to see Darcy so much in love… Well, it had always been a day that was coming: they would each find a wife, Darcy for an heir and Richard for a fortune, and that would be all.
Fitzwilliam and Darcy discuss Miss Elizabeth Bennet.
Another Opinion to Set Beside One's Own
Pride and Prejudice
Darcy/Fitzwilliam, Darcy/Lizzy
Missing Scenes, Polyamory, Metamours, Epistolary
If there is one comfort in all this, it is that you never had the opportunity to propose your arrangement to her. What a disaster it would have been if you could have had her but for your attachment to me…
Colonel Fitzwilliam's correspondence with Miss Bennet and his cousin Darcy.
Major props to
phoenixfalls, who insisted I go back and make both stories better (she was right, they are better), and to grrlpup, for her willing ear and speedy copyedits.----
* I asked the library for books on the Peninsular War. It tried to sell me on a bunch of Sharpe novels. Thank you but no. I need another long-eighteenth-century military fandom like I need another hole in my head.
