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crack_van2009-12-08 03:19 pm
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10 x 100 by rabidsamfan (G)
Fandom: LORD PETER WIMSEY
Pairing: Peter/Harriet, Charles/Mary
Length: 1,000
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rabidsamfan
Author Website: rabidsamfan at ff.net
Why this must be read:
Having dipped our toes in the dangerous waters of "more than" fanfiction – and don't worry, thrill-seekers, we will wade in more deeply on future occasions – I now return you to the safer shores of "more of", specifically more of Charles Parker. Charles gets a bit of a rough deal in canon, developing from confidante of his lordship, a good foil and a good friend - if a bit of a plodder - to largely off-stage brother-in-law. The reason is presumably Harriet – it is, after all, hard to over-estimate the social awkwardness of having tried to hang one's best friend's wife for a crime she didn't commit – but Sayers never discusses the issue explicitly, she simply allows poor Charles to fade away. This series of ten drabbles restores Charles Parker to centre stage, charting with humour and sensitivity the progression of his relationship with Peter, from their first meeting to the birth of Peter's first son, and filling in the gaps in their friendship that Sayers leaves in canon.
The first time that Charles Parker ever saw Lord Peter Wimsey, he admitted much later, he thought the man was an idiot. An interfering, overbred, impossibly privileged idiot, to be sure, but an idiot. This impression was not dispelled by the plaintive way in which the amateur insisted upon being provided with a glass of water in the middle of the investigation, but it did rather suffer when the amateur used the water to find the outline of the trapdoor laid into the elaborate parquet floor. Never let it be said that Scotland Yard had learned nothing since Sherlock Holmes.
10 x 100
Pairing: Peter/Harriet, Charles/Mary
Length: 1,000
Author:
rabidsamfan Author Website: rabidsamfan at ff.net
Why this must be read:
Having dipped our toes in the dangerous waters of "more than" fanfiction – and don't worry, thrill-seekers, we will wade in more deeply on future occasions – I now return you to the safer shores of "more of", specifically more of Charles Parker. Charles gets a bit of a rough deal in canon, developing from confidante of his lordship, a good foil and a good friend - if a bit of a plodder - to largely off-stage brother-in-law. The reason is presumably Harriet – it is, after all, hard to over-estimate the social awkwardness of having tried to hang one's best friend's wife for a crime she didn't commit – but Sayers never discusses the issue explicitly, she simply allows poor Charles to fade away. This series of ten drabbles restores Charles Parker to centre stage, charting with humour and sensitivity the progression of his relationship with Peter, from their first meeting to the birth of Peter's first son, and filling in the gaps in their friendship that Sayers leaves in canon.
The first time that Charles Parker ever saw Lord Peter Wimsey, he admitted much later, he thought the man was an idiot. An interfering, overbred, impossibly privileged idiot, to be sure, but an idiot. This impression was not dispelled by the plaintive way in which the amateur insisted upon being provided with a glass of water in the middle of the investigation, but it did rather suffer when the amateur used the water to find the outline of the trapdoor laid into the elaborate parquet floor. Never let it be said that Scotland Yard had learned nothing since Sherlock Holmes.
10 x 100