This is of course true. And this may of course lead to more kissing because oh dear, there's nowhere for the first lieutenant to go do his paperwork, save the captain's cabin, and alas, that gunroom table is getting rather full, I suppose he might have to go eat dinner elsewhere. (I can guarantee you they are going to be finding every excuse in the book to spend time together over the next little while.)
I... still haven't read Crisis (or Atropos or Commodore or Lord or Admiral because the latter two have minimal/no Bush and altogether too much Barbara.) But I do know the 'perfect officer' quote. And I do know at some point they go their separate ways because Bush has to go off to Trafalgar with the Saucy Temeraire (is he still onboard when Hotspur sinks?) and Hornblower has to go off to do... stuff. And fight pirates or something and nearly sink Nelson. But they do part and it will be emotional even if they refuse to admit to it, but at the same time this relationship is very fluid -- they know from the get-go they won't always be together, so they take what they can get when the getting is good. It *is* a HEA, it's just a complicated HEA.
And shh, let me write Kingston first :-)
Lydia is always going to be a vale of tears. But I've written a short bit about the end there that makes it less vale of tears-y so maybe it isn't SO bad.
Oooh good one. I can see it now: "Maria's opinions on having the press skewer her as being another Lady Hamilton when in fact she's Lord Hamilton*."
(*who, from what I can tell, was either the most oblivious man in history or knew exactly what was going on with his wife and Nelson, given how fondly he wrote to Nelson, and that apparently he died holding Nelson's hand. They apparently called themselves the 'three in one' which I, with my modern sensibilities, side-eye hard, but that's speculation for another time.)
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Date: 2019-09-14 04:43 am (UTC)This is of course true. And this may of course lead to more kissing because oh dear, there's nowhere for the first lieutenant to go do his paperwork, save the captain's cabin, and alas, that gunroom table is getting rather full, I suppose he might have to go eat dinner elsewhere. (I can guarantee you they are going to be finding every excuse in the book to spend time together over the next little while.)
I... still haven't read Crisis (or Atropos or Commodore or Lord or Admiral because the latter two have minimal/no Bush and altogether too much Barbara.) But I do know the 'perfect officer' quote. And I do know at some point they go their separate ways because Bush has to go off to Trafalgar with the Saucy Temeraire (is he still onboard when Hotspur sinks?) and Hornblower has to go off to do... stuff. And fight pirates or something and nearly sink Nelson. But they do part and it will be emotional even if they refuse to admit to it, but at the same time this relationship is very fluid -- they know from the get-go they won't always be together, so they take what they can get when the getting is good. It *is* a HEA, it's just a complicated HEA.
And shh, let me write Kingston first :-)
Lydia is always going to be a vale of tears. But I've written a short bit about the end there that makes it less vale of tears-y so maybe it isn't SO bad.
Oooh good one. I can see it now: "Maria's opinions on having the press skewer her as being another Lady Hamilton when in fact she's Lord Hamilton*."
(*who, from what I can tell, was either the most oblivious man in history or knew exactly what was going on with his wife and Nelson, given how fondly he wrote to Nelson, and that apparently he died holding Nelson's hand. They apparently called themselves the 'three in one' which I, with my modern sensibilities, side-eye hard, but that's speculation for another time.)