ext_91415 ([identity profile] laurens-bonanza.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] rec502005-12-31 04:02 pm

"Watching You" and "Nature and Degree"

My Table of Prompts

Claim: Horatio Hornblower, general series
Title: Watching You
Author: Crystalwren
Characters: Archie/Pellew, Horatio
Prompt: 19, Dark
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: Archie thinks Captain Pellew is wants Horatio and does what he must to protect his best friend. Unfortunately, he mistook the real object of the Captain's affection.

Please believe me, I fought it for the longest time- oh, how I fought. I fought the almost overwhelming urge to follow him, undress him with my eyes, to take him into my cabin and make him mine. I did try. But in the end I’m only a man, Mr Hornblower, a frail, weak mortal man. And faced with such temptation, my weaknesses have overwhelmed me and I have been lost. I have sold my soul for the possession of another, but I cannot regret. God forgive me, I cannot.

Link to the story: Watching You: Archie, Part I
Watching You: Pellew, Part II
Watching You: Horatio, Part III


Claim: Horatio Hornblower, general series
Title: Nature and Degree
Author: [livejournal.com profile] damned_colonial
Characters: Bush/Edrington, mentions Horatio/Archie/Edrington
Prompt: 6, Anger
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: When Bush tries to 'protect' Horatio and Archie from Edrington, he gets a bit carried away. Edrington helps him to understand Archie and Horatio's relationship and how to reconcile his own past.

"I want a word with you," Bush snarled.

"Really?" The lazy, careless drawl was infuriating but his eyes, flickering quickly around the alley and across Bush's face and uniform were satisfyingly puzzled.

Bush shoved him harder against the rough brick, holding him with the full weight of his body, tightening his grip on his wrists and breathing hard through clenched teeth. They glared at each other a moment, then suddenly the major dropped his resistance, settling against the wall so that Bush found himself pressed against a relaxed, pliant body. He flinched, and stiffened.

A faint smirk crossed the major's features. "Do you make a habit of accosting officers in alleyways, Lieutenant -- Bush, isn't it?"

"Shut your damned mouth." Bush tightened his grip, digging in his fingernails and deliberately ignoring the fact that this soldier, this flaunting, trouble-making bastard, knew his name. "And listen."


Link to the story: Nature and Degree