Post by rainstormamaya on Mar 11, 2011 9:41:30 GMT 10
Title: Childhood Sweetheart
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 316
Pairing: Team Girl Power (Buri/Thayet)
Round: 1/B
Summary: Liam feels quite sorry for Buri, really.
Liam worked it out early on. It was obvious to him, so obvious that he couldn’t believe that Alanna and Coram never saw it; but then, Alanna was almost wholly engrossed in him and her search for the Dominion Jewel (and Liam counted it a serious achievement that he ever persuaded her to think about anything else; the woman was absurdly single-minded.) Coram had been a soldier, and should have known better what the exhaustion of fear and adversity could drive young folk to, but then he was also Tortallan and Tortallans could be a little provincial about these things. He would probably have caught the princess and her bodyguard in hours if they had been men, or even if Buri had been slightly older, but as it was he wrote them off as friends as close as sisters.
Liam was not without sympathy for Buri or Thayet. The older girl clearly looked to the younger for comfort and a tenuous link to home, and was so young herself that she hadn’t recognised any deeper feeling than protectiveness and loyalty in Buri’s behaviour. The younger girl was head over heels for her, retaining just enough self-control to understand that Thayet didn’t quite feel the same way and control her awkward displays of affection accordingly, but still burning like a banked fire.
He was kind to her, insofar as that was possible when they were both on the march and on high alert for danger, and as much as he could considering that if Buri caught him at it she would string him up without thinking twice. He was even kinder after they reached Corus, and Thayet captured Jonathan’s heart with polite reserve and a thin muslin nightgown. After all, he knew what it was like to have Jonathan of Conté come between you and someone you loved; Alanna’s bed had always been tainted with Jonathan’s ghost.
QC: by Cassandra
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 316
Pairing: Team Girl Power (Buri/Thayet)
Round: 1/B
Summary: Liam feels quite sorry for Buri, really.
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Liam worked it out early on. It was obvious to him, so obvious that he couldn’t believe that Alanna and Coram never saw it; but then, Alanna was almost wholly engrossed in him and her search for the Dominion Jewel (and Liam counted it a serious achievement that he ever persuaded her to think about anything else; the woman was absurdly single-minded.) Coram had been a soldier, and should have known better what the exhaustion of fear and adversity could drive young folk to, but then he was also Tortallan and Tortallans could be a little provincial about these things. He would probably have caught the princess and her bodyguard in hours if they had been men, or even if Buri had been slightly older, but as it was he wrote them off as friends as close as sisters.
Liam was not without sympathy for Buri or Thayet. The older girl clearly looked to the younger for comfort and a tenuous link to home, and was so young herself that she hadn’t recognised any deeper feeling than protectiveness and loyalty in Buri’s behaviour. The younger girl was head over heels for her, retaining just enough self-control to understand that Thayet didn’t quite feel the same way and control her awkward displays of affection accordingly, but still burning like a banked fire.
He was kind to her, insofar as that was possible when they were both on the march and on high alert for danger, and as much as he could considering that if Buri caught him at it she would string him up without thinking twice. He was even kinder after they reached Corus, and Thayet captured Jonathan’s heart with polite reserve and a thin muslin nightgown. After all, he knew what it was like to have Jonathan of Conté come between you and someone you loved; Alanna’s bed had always been tainted with Jonathan’s ghost.
QC: by Cassandra