Fic: A Letter
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lallis_follyFic: A Letter
Fandom: Highlander
Prompt: Seemed perfectly to understand each other.
My dear Duncan,
I realize that I have not expressed my thanks to you and your charming friend Mr. Fitzcairn for effecting my rescue from that horrid creature that abducted me from the picnic in August. I know from your many letters and the cards left for me that you have been concerned about my health -- and possibly even my reason after so horrifying an experience. I confess that I shall never forget the awful sight of that man's face -- his burning eyes and leering mouth.
You thought me fainting, but I saw you meet this terrible man. I saw how you seemed to perfectly understand each other. I saw you draw your swords. I saw the entirety of your battle, and even as Mr. Fitzcairn tried to bear me away to safety, I saw your triumph and the terrible lightnings which followed.
You will think that I have read too much of Mrs. Radcliffe's works and that my imagination was thus inflamed, but I have a clear memory of the events as they happened. I learned that night that I do not know who you are, Duncan, nor what you are.
This is as difficult for me to write as it is for you to read, but I do not wish to see you, Duncan. Nor Mr. Fitzcairn, as I deduce from your close friendship that he is like you and that other creature whose name, if he had one, I never learned. It is that perfect understanding of which I wrote above that frightens me, Duncan. You seem a gentle and kind man, but in you there lurks a killer. I cannot bear the thought of seeing your face as twisted as his, and yet it will not leave me.
I am eternally grateful to you for what you did, but please make no more attempts to visit nor to correspond. I will not see you and your letters will be returned unopened.
With thanks,
Miss Parker
Comment: The prompt was actually drawn from one of Ann Radcliffe's novels (a random phrase), which I did not know when I wrote the above; the phrasing just struck me as suitable to a Regency setting.
Fandom: Highlander
Prompt: Seemed perfectly to understand each other.
My dear Duncan,
I realize that I have not expressed my thanks to you and your charming friend Mr. Fitzcairn for effecting my rescue from that horrid creature that abducted me from the picnic in August. I know from your many letters and the cards left for me that you have been concerned about my health -- and possibly even my reason after so horrifying an experience. I confess that I shall never forget the awful sight of that man's face -- his burning eyes and leering mouth.
You thought me fainting, but I saw you meet this terrible man. I saw how you seemed to perfectly understand each other. I saw you draw your swords. I saw the entirety of your battle, and even as Mr. Fitzcairn tried to bear me away to safety, I saw your triumph and the terrible lightnings which followed.
You will think that I have read too much of Mrs. Radcliffe's works and that my imagination was thus inflamed, but I have a clear memory of the events as they happened. I learned that night that I do not know who you are, Duncan, nor what you are.
This is as difficult for me to write as it is for you to read, but I do not wish to see you, Duncan. Nor Mr. Fitzcairn, as I deduce from your close friendship that he is like you and that other creature whose name, if he had one, I never learned. It is that perfect understanding of which I wrote above that frightens me, Duncan. You seem a gentle and kind man, but in you there lurks a killer. I cannot bear the thought of seeing your face as twisted as his, and yet it will not leave me.
I am eternally grateful to you for what you did, but please make no more attempts to visit nor to correspond. I will not see you and your letters will be returned unopened.
With thanks,
Miss Parker
Comment: The prompt was actually drawn from one of Ann Radcliffe's novels (a random phrase), which I did not know when I wrote the above; the phrasing just struck me as suitable to a Regency setting.
