Two Ficlets: Sky High and Poldark
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shallownessMaking a Statement. Sky High. Universal. Layla Williams/Warren Peace. 160 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any/any, what is the color of love?’ at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
comment_fic.
Summary: Warren starts wearing a dark green bracelet.
Making a Statement: shallowness
One day, Warren starts wearing a bracelet. It's made of rope and stainless steel, and the rope is a dark green. Layla notices, of course, but holds back on commenting for a couple of days.
Then, "I like the bracelet," she says, daring to trace it around his wrist. The weave is warm, as if it's absorbed Warren's phenomenal body heat.
He watches her with that way he has. She's starting to learn the quality of it as she gets more deliberate about invading his personal space.
"I didn't know you liked green," she adds. Warren in anything but his trademark black and red is a shock. Green is far more her color.
Making the connection, Layla looks up into his eyes for confirmation.
"I'm getting to like green more and more," he says.
And he’s happy to show it to the world, she realizes.
Layla’s fingertips rest on the bracelet as she rises on her toes to kiss him.
The Enys Taxi Service. Poldark. Universal. Caroline Enys, background canon pairings. 256 words.
Modern day AU. Inspired by episode 4.8.
Summary: Some of the musings of Caroline Enys, née Caroline Penvenan, taxi driver.
The Enys Taxi Service: shallowness
Caroline has just dropped Ross off at Nampara, refusing a cuppa because she’s on the clock, and she’s not idiot enough to be in the way on Ross’s first night back at home.
She jokes that the Poldarks are their best customers. Ross won’t drive to or from Parliament. He claims it’s because there’s no need for a car in Westminster and he wants to read papers about in-work poverty and real living wages on the train. Thanks to said train breaking down, Caroline has had to drive him to London more than once. She knows that he spent most of the time staring through the window, brooding.
Demelza still hasn’t learned to drive, although Caroline is sure she’d be brilliant at it. She’s even offered to teach her herself, because she thinks their friendship would withstand it. But Demelza mutters about ‘tourists’ whenever Caroline broaches the subject and there do seem to be more of them about since that TV show reminded everyone of how beautiful Cornwall is.
More customers for the Enys taxi service, Caroline thinks, looking up at Horace the pug, her lucky charm and best listener. Her Uncle Ray gave him to her when she passed her driving test.
She’s on duty tonight, while Dwight is doing his St John’s Ambulance work. What would Uncle Ray think of all this? It wasn’t what he expected her to end up doing. Caroline hopes he’d see her smile as she drives along Cornwall’s highways and byways and that he’d approve of that, at least.
comment_fic. Summary: Warren starts wearing a dark green bracelet.
One day, Warren starts wearing a bracelet. It's made of rope and stainless steel, and the rope is a dark green. Layla notices, of course, but holds back on commenting for a couple of days.
Then, "I like the bracelet," she says, daring to trace it around his wrist. The weave is warm, as if it's absorbed Warren's phenomenal body heat.
He watches her with that way he has. She's starting to learn the quality of it as she gets more deliberate about invading his personal space.
"I didn't know you liked green," she adds. Warren in anything but his trademark black and red is a shock. Green is far more her color.
Making the connection, Layla looks up into his eyes for confirmation.
"I'm getting to like green more and more," he says.
And he’s happy to show it to the world, she realizes.
Layla’s fingertips rest on the bracelet as she rises on her toes to kiss him.
The Enys Taxi Service. Poldark. Universal. Caroline Enys, background canon pairings. 256 words.
Modern day AU. Inspired by episode 4.8.
Summary: Some of the musings of Caroline Enys, née Caroline Penvenan, taxi driver.
Caroline has just dropped Ross off at Nampara, refusing a cuppa because she’s on the clock, and she’s not idiot enough to be in the way on Ross’s first night back at home.
She jokes that the Poldarks are their best customers. Ross won’t drive to or from Parliament. He claims it’s because there’s no need for a car in Westminster and he wants to read papers about in-work poverty and real living wages on the train. Thanks to said train breaking down, Caroline has had to drive him to London more than once. She knows that he spent most of the time staring through the window, brooding.
Demelza still hasn’t learned to drive, although Caroline is sure she’d be brilliant at it. She’s even offered to teach her herself, because she thinks their friendship would withstand it. But Demelza mutters about ‘tourists’ whenever Caroline broaches the subject and there do seem to be more of them about since that TV show reminded everyone of how beautiful Cornwall is.
More customers for the Enys taxi service, Caroline thinks, looking up at Horace the pug, her lucky charm and best listener. Her Uncle Ray gave him to her when she passed her driving test.
She’s on duty tonight, while Dwight is doing his St John’s Ambulance work. What would Uncle Ray think of all this? It wasn’t what he expected her to end up doing. Caroline hopes he’d see her smile as she drives along Cornwall’s highways and byways and that he’d approve of that, at least.
