Charioteer drabble
Oct. 28th, 2013 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charlie_cochraneJust posted it to Mary's Handmaidens but because it's a closed comm, here's the drabble itself. Usual "shame I don't own these chaps" stuff applies.
Ralph always appreciated the mysterious benefactor’s bequest which ensured the school had fireworks every Guy Fawkes Night. The man must have anticipated with pleasure the enraptured boyish faces, the “oohs” and “ahs” at each fresh explosion.
Would he also have anticipated the surreptitious holding of hands? The furtive looks and the standing just too close, too long?
He caught sight of Laurie’s face, lit up by the brightest of the rockets. The outward manifestation of sheer joy, a look he’d only seen matched on Hazell’s face, in far less savoury circumstances.
Would Ralph ever recreate Laurie’s expression with his own fireworks?
Ralph always appreciated the mysterious benefactor’s bequest which ensured the school had fireworks every Guy Fawkes Night. The man must have anticipated with pleasure the enraptured boyish faces, the “oohs” and “ahs” at each fresh explosion.
Would he also have anticipated the surreptitious holding of hands? The furtive looks and the standing just too close, too long?
He caught sight of Laurie’s face, lit up by the brightest of the rockets. The outward manifestation of sheer joy, a look he’d only seen matched on Hazell’s face, in far less savoury circumstances.
Would Ralph ever recreate Laurie’s expression with his own fireworks?
