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crack_van2009-12-19 06:14 pm
azdak.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2009-12-19 06:14 pm
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The First Year After by Nineveh_UK
Fandom: LORD PETER WIMSEY
Pairing: Peter/Harriet
Length: 5,000
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nineveh_uk
Author Website: See the wimseyfic tag on her LJ
Why this must be read:
This is another look at Charles Parker after the events of Strong Poison, but this time examining not his relationship with Peter but his relationship with Harriet. How did Peter's friend and Peter's wife manage to find a modus operandi, when Harriet had so much to forgive and Charles so much to be forgiven for? The story is interspersed with hilarious excerpts from the Dowager Duchess's diary, and moves from stiff dislike and awkwardness to a lovely – and appropriately seasonal – conciliation, arising from the mutual respect each of them has discovered for the other.
`Miss Vane, please don't misunderstand me. I am not here in any professional capacity.'
`Of course not,' she had the upper hand now, and the smile came more naturally. `Else you'd already have spoken to Mr Croft. But I don't think it will do my reputation any good to be seen talking to a policeman in the hall, and naturally I have no intention of inviting you in.'
`Perhaps I ought to have written.' He did have a nice voice. She heard, beneath the grammar school surface, a faint breath of the North.
`Perhaps you ought. Alternatively, I should be quite happy, Mr Parker, never to have sight or sound of you again. Excuse me.'
The First Year After
Pairing: Peter/Harriet
Length: 5,000
Author on LJ:
nineveh_ukAuthor Website: See the wimseyfic tag on her LJ
Why this must be read:
This is another look at Charles Parker after the events of Strong Poison, but this time examining not his relationship with Peter but his relationship with Harriet. How did Peter's friend and Peter's wife manage to find a modus operandi, when Harriet had so much to forgive and Charles so much to be forgiven for? The story is interspersed with hilarious excerpts from the Dowager Duchess's diary, and moves from stiff dislike and awkwardness to a lovely – and appropriately seasonal – conciliation, arising from the mutual respect each of them has discovered for the other.
`Miss Vane, please don't misunderstand me. I am not here in any professional capacity.'
`Of course not,' she had the upper hand now, and the smile came more naturally. `Else you'd already have spoken to Mr Croft. But I don't think it will do my reputation any good to be seen talking to a policeman in the hall, and naturally I have no intention of inviting you in.'
`Perhaps I ought to have written.' He did have a nice voice. She heard, beneath the grammar school surface, a faint breath of the North.
`Perhaps you ought. Alternatively, I should be quite happy, Mr Parker, never to have sight or sound of you again. Excuse me.'
The First Year After