Drabbles
Comfort PG Bush learns he is loved
Many Thanks G Wellard
Sweet Dreams are Made of This PG-13 Horatio dreams of Archie
Enough G Pellew wants to help, but he can't -- Written while drunk!
A Lesson in Strength G Archie learns courage from Horatio
The Better Part PG-13 Horatio learns about the better part of valor
A Small Lesson G This is my funniest drabble ever
A Birthday Present for Wellard G
The Present R Archie is slutty
Comfort
Words: 100
Character(s): Hornblower, Bush
Spoilers: Book A Ship of the Line
Notes: Book Fic
Summary: For the Loyalty Challenge. Bush learns he is loved
Although Hornblower never spoke of it, Bush knew of his captain's horror of dismemberment-- in the way he recoiled slightly from maimed sailors, or felt at his limbs whenever the cannons' percussion took him from his feet. No other would have noticed, but Bush read those looks and flinches for the language they were.
Now, in the darkness, a pain beyond pain gnawing where his foot had been, he felt something else. Hornblower's hand rubbed Bush's gently, and he whispered words too low to hear, but Bush heard their sense. The love and loyalty he had always given were returned.
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Many Thanks
Words: 100
Character(s): Horatio, Wellard
Rating: G
Notes: not sure about this, but posting it anyway
"Th-thank you, sir, for interrupting when you did," said Wellard.
Horatio, uncomfortable, ducked his head, and said, "Think not on it." His conscience pained him, and he looked straight at Wellard. "It is really Arch—Mr. Kennedy whom you should thank."
Wellard blushed crimson. "Yes, sir," he said, "well, I tried, sir, but I think he didn't take it right. He said he didn't do enough. He favors you so; I'm sure if you tell him, he'll believe."
Wellard looked earnestly at Horatio, and Horatio thanked Providence Wellard's clear eyes, which saw so much, were matched with loyalty and discretion.
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Sweet dreams are made of this
Words: 100
Characters: Horatio/Archie
Rating: PG-13
Horatio woke with the unaccustomed smell of a rush-filled mattress in his nose, and someone else's hair on his face. The room was still dark, and he realized the motion of the room was in his head, that he was still drunk, still in a Plymouth inn.
He felt oddly heavy and tried not to move. Snatches of a familiar dream filled his head, more immediate than usual: Archie's golden skin, his golden hair, his soft lips insistent on Horatio's own. Then those same lips kissed his shoulder in the dark.
"It wasn't a dream this time, was it?"
"No."
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Enough
Prompt: Dream
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Characters involved: Pellew, Bracegirdle, Hornblower
Notes: drabble some time during The Wrong War/Frogs and Lobsters, drabble written while drunk (yay sales meeting and free alcohol, please forgive probable grammar errors)
There are dreams and dreams. Pellew tosses and turns, and sleep comes hard. Bracegirdle says "We will find him again," but it is not enough.
Horblower dying on the guillotine, Hornblower killed by musket fire, Hornblower lifted into the air when the bridge explodes and dashed to death on the slimy rocks below. Pellew paces his cabin as the dreams pace his head. It is not enough.
Pellew's muscles strain hard against the water; there have been a hundred strokes before this, and will be a hundred after, but he knows, it is not enough. It will never be enough.
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A Lesson In Strength
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Characters/Setting: Archie, Horatio in the Ferrol
"For God's sake, Horatio, tell him," Archie urged, and then Maseredo put Horatio in the oubliette.
In his cell, Archie suffered with his friend, knowing the horrors of sun and rain and rats that bit worse than a bosun's rattan, which awaited Horatio within that hole. Worst of all, Archie knew he had misjudged Horatio's honor, yet again, when he gave such cowardly advice.
Horatio would never fail his men; he would bear them up on his slender back, no matter what the cost. Listening to the rain pour down over the dirty stones, Archie resolved to do the same.
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The Better Part
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Word: 100
Warning: bookfic, STRONG spoilers for the book Ship of the Line
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, thought Captain Hornblower, sitting dazed on the ruined deck of the Sutherland as the French captain had a jolly boat sent over to accept his sword and his surrender. It was an adage he thought he had learned before, many times, but in his blindness, and his fear of looking a coward, he wrought this destruction.
Such a cost: Young Longley blown apart, Bush's foot and chances of advancement blown away, and so many dead, so that Hornblower might sit, numb with fear and grief, and learn his lesson one more time.
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A Small Lesson
Rating: G (except I have a very dirty mind, so, you be the judge)
Words: 100
"Now, Mr. Hornblower, put your lips like so, place it in your mouth, moisten the end, and, gently, mind you, inhale," said Captain Pellew. Horatio took the cigar and did as bidden.
"Hold the smoke in your mouth, but do not let it into your lungs or--" Horatio, who had inhaled too deeply, coughed and sputtered, and Pellew grabbed the cigar from him before embers fell and set the ship aflame.
"Mr. Hornblower, this is a gentleman's pleasure, and you will learn to enjoy it. I can't comprehend why you find it so difficult. Mr. Kennedy had no trouble."
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Another Present
Rating: G
Word count: 100 words
Characters involved: Archie, Wellard
Notes: linaerys, silly silly
"Wellard, I have a birthday present for you," said Archie.
Wellard wore his habitual hangdog expression, and, eyes darting like a scared rabbit, asked, "What is it?" Archie pulled a bundle from behind his back and gave it to Wellard, who, now seeing that the item wouldn't bite, unwrapped it.
"It's a hat, sir," Wellard observed.
"Not just any hat," returned Archie, "this is finest wool felt, and brand new, too."
Wellard put it on, gingerly, and it slid down to cover his eyes.
Archie frowned, "Horatio had it sized for himself. I didn't know his head was that big."
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The Present
Rating: R
Words: 100
Characters: Archie/Horatio with some help from Bush
Category: Humor
It seemed a wonderful dream, that got more and more wonderful and then Horatio awoke at the apex of the dream, to see a grinning face topped by golden hair emerge from the sheet covering Horatio's waist.
"What are you doing? Here? In the officers' quarters?" Archie's face fell.
"I just wanted to wish you Happy Birthday, Horatio," he said, then smiled again, mischievous, and said, "Bush stood guard so I could give you your present."
Now Horatio fought to hide his own grin and said, "I shall thank him later. ‘Twas a perfectly lovely present, from both of you."
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