Your Cruise Director (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cruisedirector) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} mandc100,@ 2004-03-20 10:51:00 |
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Kindred
Title: Kindred
Author:cruisedirector
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Characters: Stephen, Dil
Notes: Spoilers for H.M.S. Surprise.
Rum to: Stephen would probably rather have laudanum, so give it to Jack.
When he saw the body lying on the ground, killed by kindness (his own kindness) and the poverty around her, Stephen thought of Ireland. He had known wretched children there who had no one to feed or teach them; children for whom he had once thought he could fight, bastards like himself, whose fate he might have shared save for his own luck in youth.
He looked at this girl whom he might have saved, had he known more, had he been able to see more clearly. "I am of her caste," he said. "I will attend to the fire."
Title: Kindred
Author:
cruisedirectorRating: PG
Word count: 100
Characters: Stephen, Dil
Notes: Spoilers for H.M.S. Surprise.
Rum to: Stephen would probably rather have laudanum, so give it to Jack.
When he saw the body lying on the ground, killed by kindness (his own kindness) and the poverty around her, Stephen thought of Ireland. He had known wretched children there who had no one to feed or teach them; children for whom he had once thought he could fight, bastards like himself, whose fate he might have shared save for his own luck in youth.
He looked at this girl whom he might have saved, had he known more, had he been able to see more clearly. "I am of her caste," he said. "I will attend to the fire."
