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classics_lover here again, for the final time this week. Why don't we round this lovely week off with Episode Titles. The nature of your prompts should be taken from the titles of episodes (from any fandom you like).The Rules:
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+ HAVE FUN!
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+ MCU, author's choice/author's choice, I want you to want me (Suits)
+ Assassin's Creed, Leonardo Da Vinci, A Day In The Life (Xena: Warrior Princess)
+ Star Trek: Enterprise, Malcolm Reed +/ any, The One With All The Rugby (Friends)
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Date: 2014-09-12 08:21 pm (UTC)Once Upon a Time: Grace's mother + Jefferson, pre-series
Date: 2014-12-02 05:36 pm (UTC)(in this 'verse
(warnings for abortion)
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Rochelle Poplin is the youngest daughter of a youngest daughter and her only inheritance is the position of a chambermaid in a lesser nobleman’s house. She has a bit of magic that her mother warns her to keep hidden, always, when she is barely three summers old. Her mother’s face is bleeding while her father rants upstairs, and Rochelle’s older brothers are already at their apprenticeships and her older sisters already wed. Rochelle alone remains at home.
She is sent to the nobleman’s house as soon as she is old enough to follow orders and given into the housekeeper’s care.
Yana is firm and strict, and Rochelle quickly falls into line. She holds her tongue and learns.
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When she is fifteen summers, she catches the oldest son’s eye. She has thought herself plain all her life but perhaps it is simply that she is available. She tumbles with him, of course, and he gifts her with jewelry that she hides away in the pocket of air she mastered as a child, where all her treasures are kept. It is the only magic she has.
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When she is sixteen summers, she misses her monthly bleeding. For a sapphire ring, the town hedgewitch provides her with a charm so that the babe does not grow. The next month, she bleeds three times and cries herself to sleep.
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When she is seventeen summers, the oldest son leaves to make his fortune and they have one last tumble. Yana frowns at her when the son blows her a kiss.
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When she is nineteen summers, Rochelle hears whirling wind inside the manor. She follows the sound to a portal in the gallery, where the most expensive portraits are kept. There is a man tossing priceless treasures through the portal. She looks from the portal to the man and decides the worst that can happen is he kills her, so she drops the portal into her air pocket.
The man is attractive even when gaping like a fool. “Take me with you,” she orders, “or you won’t be leaving.”
He laughs. “Give me back the portal and you’re welcome to join me,” he says.
She draws the portal out of the pocket and goes through it; the man follows, closing it behind him.
His name is Jefferson. He teaches her tricks of magic that are more than she ever dreamed could be possible. He is a thief and a rogue, and he works for bad people but that doesn’t matter.
He promises, “One day, we’ll go home, you and I,” kissing her throat and jaw and lips.
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When Rochelle is twenty-two summers, she misses her monthly bleed again. She tells Jefferson and his smile is more beautiful than any she has yet seen.
Rochelle names their daughter Grace; Jefferson murmurs, “Ioana” trailing one finger along their daughter’s body from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet.
“What is that?” Rochelle asks.
Jefferson smiles and says, “Her birthright. It simply means ‘God is gracious,’ where I’m from.”
“And what’s yours?” she asks, pulling him away from the crib so that Grace can sleep.
“Iakov,” he says. “‘God protects.’”
“And we’ll go there, someday?” She pushes him onto the bed and falls next to him, tucking herself beneath his arm.
“Yes, my love,” he promises, pressing a kiss to her hair. “You’ll be treated like a princess.”
She laughs. “Oh, I don’t care about that. I just want to learn more magic.”
Jefferson chuckles. “That, I can see to.”
Re: Once Upon a Time: Grace's mother + Jefferson, pre-series
Date: 2014-12-02 07:08 pm (UTC)Re: Once Upon a Time: Grace's mother + Jefferson, pre-series
Date: 2014-12-02 07:33 pm (UTC)I'm glad you like it!
Re: Once Upon a Time: Grace's mother + Jefferson, pre-series
Date: 2014-12-03 01:13 am (UTC)Re: Once Upon a Time: Grace's mother + Jefferson, pre-series
Date: 2014-12-03 02:19 am (UTC)Thank you!