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Written for the very special Birthday Edition of The Dear Surprise fanzine! HUZZAH!
Rated PG. Quotations are from Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Also available at AO3
Warnings: crushing heartbreak...followed by crack!
Eight ways Jack and Stephen never got together (and one way they did)
They were seated apart
And on the little gilt chairs at least some of the audience were following the rise with an equal intensity: there were two in the third row, on the left-hand side; and they happened to be sitting next to one another.
On his way to the Governor's House for the concert, Stephen was distracted when he thought he saw a hoopoe in the deepening twilight. It took no more than five minutes of pursuit to realize that he had been mistaken; surely no more than ten minutes at the very most. But it meant that he was, in the event, seated in the fourth row, on the right-hand side.
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Rated PG. Quotations are from Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Also available at AO3
Warnings: crushing heartbreak...followed by crack!
Eight ways Jack and Stephen never got together (and one way they did)
They were seated apart
And on the little gilt chairs at least some of the audience were following the rise with an equal intensity: there were two in the third row, on the left-hand side; and they happened to be sitting next to one another.
On his way to the Governor's House for the concert, Stephen was distracted when he thought he saw a hoopoe in the deepening twilight. It took no more than five minutes of pursuit to realize that he had been mistaken; surely no more than ten minutes at the very most. But it meant that he was, in the event, seated in the fourth row, on the right-hand side.
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