Interstitial drabble - Lambton

[anghraine]

Well, I desperately wanted post-Lydiagate Darcy/Elizabeth fluff, but sadly, there isn't an abundance in fandom. So I decided to write drabbles at all the Significant Shipping Moments from 'eep! Lydia ran off with Wickham!' onwards.




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Title: An Assurance of Disgrace

Fandom: Austen (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE)

Fanverse: N/A (interstitial)

Blurb: Everything must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace.

Major Characters: Elizabeth Bennet; Fitzwilliam Darcy

Pairings/Warnings: Fitzwilliam Darcy/Elizabeth Bennet; canonical angst

Length: drabble

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“Wretched, wretched mistake!”

Elizabeth scarcely knew what she said; to all appearances, neither did Darcy. He was fully occupied by his own thoughts, walking back and forth with an air of restless intensity as uncharacteristic as the embarrassed discomposure of two days ago.

The sun was shining.

She looked at Darcy, his gaze distant, even abstracted beneath contracted brows, and understood him perfectly. How shocked he must be! how horrified! yet relieved, also, to finally be free of his unreasonable attachment to her. Elizabeth's eyes burned.

She still could not determine the exact nature of her feelings - but in that moment, it struck her with a cold, heavy certainty, that she could have loved him.

Comments

[hl]

You know, you said fluff. Then, you said, 'not quite fluff'. But this is angst, I'll have you know. Angst. :(

I love the last phrase, particularly the last bit of it.

[tree]

what she said!

i think your "E to everyone else" translator is borked if you think this is fluff, m'lady.

[anghraine]

*shakes translator* Oh, well, a minor malfunction. I'll see what I can do about it. ;)

[anghraine]

Okay, I may have slightly misrepresented this one. I wanted shippiness more than fluff, really. Canon-compliant shippiness! At the canonical shippy moments! so... yeah, probably most of these won't be fluff. *grovels*

I did put angst in the warnings, though!

[sixbeforelunch]

Oh nice drabble! You captured her well.

[anghraine]

Thank you! She's one of the more difficult characters to catch - bizarrely - so... yeah, thanks.

[tulina]

But it all ends well! ♥ interstitial fic.

[anghraine]

Yes. Eventually. ;)

That'll have to be our motto. We heart canon-compliance!