ring the bells that still can ring ([info]linaerys) wrote in [info]hh100,
2003-12-01 21:41:00

Loyalty Drabble #1

Title: Comfort
Words: 100
Character(s): Hornblower, Bush
Rum to: Bush
Spoilers: Book A Ship of the Line
Notes: Book Fic
Summary: 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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[info]rainbowjehan

December 1 2003, 19:59:22 UTC 8 years ago

*squees softly*

[info]pamdram

December 1 2003, 23:03:16 UTC 8 years ago

awww *snuggles William*
This is so lovely, and just like Horatio to be like that when it really matters

[info]linaerys

December 2 2003, 06:07:30 UTC 8 years ago

Thanks! This is from that scene in Flying Colours where Horatio is in fact "stroking Bush's hand like a woman's". I loved that image (of course) and had to do something with it.

[info]venefica32

December 2 2003, 07:42:36 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I'm so happy that someone did something with that scene because it is definitely one of my favourite lines on that book. *grins*

[info]pamdram

December 2 2003, 08:39:19 UTC 8 years ago

yeah, that was always one of my favourite bits too!

[info]phantomsangel

December 1 2003, 23:06:57 UTC 8 years ago

Awww...I love them so very much.

[info]rach74

December 2 2003, 02:19:57 UTC 8 years ago

*sniff*
That's lovely.
*snuggles them both*
Liked this.

[info]nindulgence

December 2 2003, 07:24:14 UTC 8 years ago

a pain beyond pain gnawing where his foot had been

Very nice--and I like Bush's understanding of H's "looks and flinches" as well. (How ironic that Hornblower's constant determination not to open up too much to his officers just inspires Bush to watch his body language even more closely.)

Thanks for writing!

~~

[info]linaerys

December 2 2003, 09:56:57 UTC 8 years ago

You are quite welcome.

I just love those bits in the book that reveal how closely Bush observes Hornblower. And the moments when Hornblower actually shows affection--all the more precious because it happens so infrequently.

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March 15 2011, 21:11:52 UTC 1 year ago

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