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Post by wordy on May 30, 2013 15:47:24 GMT 10
Title: First/Second Chance Rating: PG Word Count: 219 Pairing: Alanna/Jonathan Round/Fight: 3A Summary: The Sweating Fever. A/N: AU. Part of my Duplicity series: Alanna goes to the convent…until Thom begs her to swap places with him. Pretending to be a boy is difficult enough, but pretending to be her brother? A whole ‘nother story.
Within days of each other, Gary, Francis, and Alex got the fever. Francis had the worst of it: the one time Alanna went to visit him, she was turned away, his delirious ramblings loud enough to hear through the walls.
“The healers can’t do anything for him,” she told Jonathan, quietly. Her eyes felt hot; she did not want to cry in front of him. She did not want to talk of such things with him at all, except the dying boy was his friend, and he had not had time to visit Francis himself since the queen fell ill.
“There must be something,” Jon said. His face looked unusually pale; Alanna wondered how much sleep he had had lately. She nibbled on her thumbnail as he fell silent, watching him from the corner of her eye.
She had the ability to save Francis, maybe. If she lost control…but he was dying already. The thought of wielding such power scared her, made her skin break out in gooseflesh even now. Francis was worth the risk, though. Jonathan would save him if he could. The real Thom wouldn’t be afraid.
She wasn’t Thom. But, just this once—for Francis—she could be.
“He could be too far gone,” she told Jon, covering his hand with hers, “but…there might be something.”
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Post by housewife on Jun 12, 2013 15:31:04 GMT 10
This scene. I love it. My favourite thing is the way that she uses her charade of Thom to do something she wouldn't have done alone. (But now I have many questions. Does she do it with Jon's help or without it? Does she fall asleep for three days and does she have enough strength to help Jon? Does Jon even get the Sweating Sickness?)
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