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Post by wordy on May 30, 2013 15:53:26 GMT 10
Title: Truth Rating: G Word Count: 210 Pairing: Alanna/Jonathan Round/Fight: 3A Summary: Alanna knows she can’t tell him. 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.
Alanna had grown used to answering to her brother’s name; at home, only Maude and Coram had been able to tell them apart, and their father never paid them enough attention to truly learn the difference.
So it was easy enough to turn and respond when someone called her by another name. She did not twitch or scowl at the mistake, as she would have once. She had entered this charade willingly, after all: earning her shield was more than enough reward for a few years of mistaken identity.
No one called her Alanna. Not even Coram: the danger of them being overheard, or of him slipping up in company, was too great.
Sometimes she wondered if this was truly who she was—if she had been allowed to train for knighthood as herself, under her own name, would she have turned out any differently? The idea occupied her thoughts often, even when she was with Jon and the others.
Would he treat her differently if he knew she was a girl? Part of her wanted to confide in him, hear her name said aloud, but it could never come to pass. She knew that. Everything she had worked for would be taken away.
But it didn’t stop her wishing.
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Post by housewife on Jun 12, 2013 15:35:26 GMT 10
Ah, poor Alanna. This is something we don't see in the books, and I really like what she wonders here about doing things differently. It would be interesting to compare an Alanna who got to go through training as a girl compared to the Alanna who did it as Alan and the Alanna who pretended to be Thom.
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