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The "Look" Meme
Current WIP, hmmm... I dunno how 'current' this piece is; I more or less abandoned it about a year ago, but I have been thinking about resuming it.
This is a section surrounding the first ocurrence of 'look' in a sequel I'm writing to astolat's "The World Turned Upside Down".
Fandom: Master and Commander
Pairing: Jack/Stephen
“Ah, Stephen, there you are!” cried Jack at second breakfast, with a gleam in his eye that the doctor had not observed for some weeks. Since the discovery of his condition, in truth. “Did you see this?” Jack pointed to the article in the Transactions he had been reading. “A fellow in the Royal Society says he may have found a cure! A way to turn people like me back to our original form!”
“Yes, my dear, I did indeed look over that most interesting report.” Stephen did not mention that he had been in correspondence with the gentleman himself for some months about the possible treatment. “Would there be coffee, at all?” Drinking a cup of the invigorating brew, and enjoying a slice of toast generously slathered with jam, Stephen watched as Jack eagerly pored over the journal. “I beg you will not refine too much upon this hope, upon this slim meagre grasping chance of a so-called 'cure',” he said.
Jack looked up, a little surprised. “According to this report, his initial results have been promising.”
“By 'promising' he means that his patients have not died. Or have not died yet, I should say.”
“Oh. I thought it said here that they were even changing back.”
“Yes, yes,” continued Stephen impatiently. “In some cases the individuals treated lost those anatomical attributes, those indicators of sex, that they were not born with, but there has been no evidence of their regaining their original characteristics. To be rendered neither male nor female, not a man nor a woman, but some androgynous ambivalent halfway creature of no defined form does not strike me as a tolerable outcome.”
This is a section surrounding the first ocurrence of 'look' in a sequel I'm writing to astolat's "The World Turned Upside Down".
Fandom: Master and Commander
Pairing: Jack/Stephen
“Ah, Stephen, there you are!” cried Jack at second breakfast, with a gleam in his eye that the doctor had not observed for some weeks. Since the discovery of his condition, in truth. “Did you see this?” Jack pointed to the article in the Transactions he had been reading. “A fellow in the Royal Society says he may have found a cure! A way to turn people like me back to our original form!”
“Yes, my dear, I did indeed look over that most interesting report.” Stephen did not mention that he had been in correspondence with the gentleman himself for some months about the possible treatment. “Would there be coffee, at all?” Drinking a cup of the invigorating brew, and enjoying a slice of toast generously slathered with jam, Stephen watched as Jack eagerly pored over the journal. “I beg you will not refine too much upon this hope, upon this slim meagre grasping chance of a so-called 'cure',” he said.
Jack looked up, a little surprised. “According to this report, his initial results have been promising.”
“By 'promising' he means that his patients have not died. Or have not died yet, I should say.”
“Oh. I thought it said here that they were even changing back.”
“Yes, yes,” continued Stephen impatiently. “In some cases the individuals treated lost those anatomical attributes, those indicators of sex, that they were not born with, but there has been no evidence of their regaining their original characteristics. To be rendered neither male nor female, not a man nor a woman, but some androgynous ambivalent halfway creature of no defined form does not strike me as a tolerable outcome.”
no subject
no subject
*is positive*
*nods*