P&P fic!

[anghraine]

This is a drabble I originally wrote for an AU story, but actually, I think it works just as well, if not better, as canon-compliant.  So, yes, here.


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Title:  Happily Ever After

Fandom: Austen (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE)

Fanverse: N/A (sequel)

Blurb:  At their wedding, the vicar told Elizabeth and Darcy to live in perfect love and peace together.  It didn't quite turn out that way.

Major Characters:  Elizabeth Darcy (née Bennet); Fitzwilliam Darcy

Pairings/Warnings:  Fitzwilliam Darcy/Elizabeth Bennet; fluff and . . . not-fluff, sorta

Length: One-shot

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The Darcys are not, by nature, quarrelsome. They are, however, arrogant, recalcitrant, and too clever by half, and as far as they are concerned, compromises are things which happen to other people. Their disagreements can last for days, the rancour festering until Elizabeth flies into a fury.

It is always Elizabeth.

Sometimes, Darcy loses his temper first, but he is not like her; or, at least, his anger is not like hers. It is hard and sharp and cruel, and when it overwhelms his better, warmer feelings, he lashes out with that icy contempt he is so uniquely capable of.

Yet it is a rare occurrence when they quarrel at all, let alone when he turns on her. She may be blinded by what she wishes to see, he may be haughty and scheming, but in the end, they are also brilliant, principled, charismatic, and in love, delighted with each other and with a world which seems created expressly for their amusement.

In the end, they are happy.

Comments

[hl]

Aw, happy!character.analysis!fic. :D

I love:

(...) as far as they are concerned, compromises are things which happen to other people.

[anghraine]

*beams* Thank you! Yes, it's - well, part analysis of them as characters, and as a couple - e.g., I've seen their lives as boringly perfect, which isn't how I see them, and I've also seen them as terribly dysfunctional, which is contradicted by the text itself. I think they are so similar in so many ways that they'll usually agree about anything significant - but when they don't, it'll be EPIC WARFARE, pretty much. In their different ways, of course (oh, and it was definitely fun to track down and consider how they lose their tempers - Elizabeth's explosions and rants against Darcy's chilly rage.)

And partly, of course, just making them happy. ;)

Hee! I've rewritten that line w/ every posting, but that's the one I'm happiest with, I think. Esp because, yes, they're completely uncompromising. (Frankly, wonderful as they are, it'd be unnecessary cruelty to inflict them on most other people.)

[sixbeforelunch]

as far as they are concerned, compromises are things which happen to other people

That is so them.

Great drabble.

[anghraine]

Thanks! I, uh - for me, that's D&E in a nutshell, really. Never give up and never give in!