Austen drabbles: Right and Responsibility AND Abide with Me [Darcy/Elizabeth, Anne Elliot, general]
Title: Right and Responsibility Author: celandineb Fandom: Jane Austen Characters: Darcy/Elizabeth Rating: general Note: Written by request for the holiday season in 2004, for evieballerina who wanted my take on Darcy and Elizabeth when Elizabeth was staying near Pemberley.
Elizabeth blamed herself for her sister's folly; but I knew that if anyone bore the responsibility for Wickham's character being not well enough known to prevent such a circumstance, it was I. Compassion and self-accusation battled within my heart as I watched her weep silently into her handkerchief, and I considered what likelihood there was that her father or her uncle – good man though Mr. Gardiner was – could ever find the reprobate pair in the teeming streets of London. Very little, I judged. No, if Wickham were to be brought to account, I must be the one to do it.
Title: Abide with Me Author: celandineb Fandom: Jane Austen Characters: Anne Elliot Wentworth Rating: general Note: Written at the request of espresso_addict, who asked for "some Austen with the theme of home."
In comparison to the sailors' quarters, or even the lesser officers', the cabin was large, but it was tiny by the standards of Kellynch Hall. The dark polished wood of walls and ceiling seemed to press inward against the furniture that crowded the small space. Lady Russell, Elizabeth, Mary – even Henrietta and Louisa Musgrove – would have been quite appalled by it. But for the new Mrs. Wentworth, lately Anne Elliot, it was simply her home, where her husband and she lived, and she would not have exchanged it for the largest, lightest, most consequential dwelling in Bath, London, or England altogether.