ext_7640 ([identity profile] sine-que-non767.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-05-06 10:17 pm

Jeeves and the Blessed Indiscretion by shalott (PG)

Fandom: JEEVES & WOOSTER
Pairing: Jeeves/Bertie Wooster
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] astolat
Author Website: Intimations
Why this must be read:

Jeeves is perturbed to such an extreme that Bertie's morning libations are disturbed. A blackmailer, missing pearls and indecent proposals are the order of the day - but Bertie rises to the occasion in Sherlockian fashion. Touching and hilarious.



Ordinarily Jeeves manages to divine when I have awoken by some arcane method, likely of a kind man was Not Meant To Know. It is a settled thing that within two minutes of the resurrection I can anticipate my tea coming into the room, ready to do its part in the getting of one Bertram Wooster from the horizontal to the vertical state. On particular occasions, perhaps the period may stretch to five of the big hand.

At that moment I glanced again at the clock, and it dawned upon me that no less than fifteen minutes of awareness had been engaged in reaching this conclusion.

Having dragged the corpus out of bed and tottered downstairs in something just short of a panic, I consider I was justified in being cross when I found Jeeves quite composedly sweeping the hearth in the sitting room, with no signs of the heart-attack or the impending-stroke to mar his appearance.

'Well, really!' I said.

'I beg your pardon, sir,' Jeeves said, straightening up with dustbin in hand. 'I did not expect you to wake for another fifteen minutes. Will you have your breakfast now?'

Now, when presented with an apology alongside a plate of baked eggs and ham, it would take a harder man than B. Wooster to ring a peal, but I don't mind saying I was taken aback. I mean, even supposing I was to linger in the land of Nod a while, what on earth did the fellow mean, sweeping the hearth at this hour of the morn instead of attending for the waking cry of the young master, etc.?

Jeeves and the Blessed Indiscretion

[identity profile] juniper200.livejournal.com 2006-05-06 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
This is, bar none, the finest Jooster story on the Web, and I'm glad you included it in your set. Everyone! Go read!

[identity profile] laughingacademy.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
I ran across this story earlier today while poking around [livejournal.com profile] astolat’s site, and oh, it’s wonderful! An excellent rec!