crack_van | One Knight's Stand by Heuradys (G)

Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: none, gen
Author on LJ:

heuradys
Author Website: Heuradys Collected
Why this must be read: Because it's a terrific character piece featuring Turnbull, one of the most beloved of the minor characters. Turnbull's a strange bird. He's an adult child, a dim but pleasant and thoroughly unthreatening man. Where does his desire to serve come from? And his cheefully blank demeanor? Perhaps the answer lies in his relationship with his mother. In this fic, we see a young Turnbull dealing with his mother's decline. He wants desperately to do the right thing, but he's ill-equipped for the sudden onset of adult responsibilites. What will happen to this gentle soul?

Excerpt:

Her room was the prettiest. He made sure of that. He filled it with his watercolor paintings and flowering plants he could fuss over, talents he nurtured in hope that they'd brighten her life. He brought her treats, once he'd learned to cook well enough. And when he dropped something, in his earnest attempts to please her, she didn't notice.

He read to her, when he was there, from all the books she'd loved - the thick histories, the musty tomes of law. He read until his voice was hoarse, until he'd memorized parts of the books by heart, but the intelligence never truly returned to her eyes while he did it. She was petulant, bored, frustrated...

Until he gave up on her books and started reading his childhood favorites, the books she'd read aloud to him whenever he was ill. Visiting hours flew by to tales of Gulliver and his Lilliputians, of pirates and treasure, and all the other adventure stories he loved, and her eyes would light up when he arrived.

One Knight's Stand

I also highly reccomend the sequel, Happiness Is Haunted, which is Fraser/Kowalski implied and Turnbull/OMC pre-slash.

One Knight's Stand by Heuradys (G)

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