Amazingly enough, I managed to get another chapter of Change done. Yay! And stuff happens on many fronts in this one, including Meri and her family mobilizing to deal with things in their normal steamroller fashion. *laughs* Hope everyone enjoys the new chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: Chartea Coup
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 3240 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit | The More Things Change | Inappropriate Suitors | Private Time | Princess Kim Arrives | On Having Two Mistresses | Girl’s Night
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Just because I feel like sharing:
“I’m a slave, Highness,” Kennet said with his own version of a wry smile. “I don’t get to be complicated about things.”
Prince Didymos nodded as though Kennet had said something profound instead of the bare reality of life as a slave. Kennet still didn’t understand the man. Granted, a lot of that was because they were of such different backgrounds that Kennet quite literally didn’t understand the majority of Prince Didymos’ references but some of it was the simple fact that they had totally different personalities.
Kennet knew that he was blunt, straightforward and generally abrasive. He always had been though he’d learned to hide it a bit since he was enslaved. His basic mode of operation was to suspect everyone of everything and only trust them after they’d proven that they weren’t out to get him. It worked fairly well for him since growing up everyone had been out to get him and now that he was a slave he was to blame for anything that went wrong, whether he’d been there or not.
In contrast, Prince Didymos was open, kind and damn near gushing in his appreciation of everyone around him. There wasn’t a single stranger who wasn’t a friend he’d just met. People who had shown that they wanted him dead were ‘mistaken’ or ‘confused’, not dangerous. He seemed to love everyone, no matter who they were or what they did.
It was confusing, to put it mildly. Kennet suspected that his automatic suspicion of everyone around him confused Prince Didymos just as badly. Still, they had to live together so Kennet did what he could not to destroy Prince Didymos’ good opinion of everyone. He seemed to be making a similar effort to live with Kennet’s paranoia, though it clearly bothered him.
“Am I sheltered?” Prince Didymos asked in an undertone that was just barely audible over the sound of the musicians playing inside the ballroom. His voice barely carried over the sound of the river at the base of the cliff below the balcony.
“Yeah,” Kennet replied. “Goes with being a Prince, I think. Why?”
“I feel like…” Prince Didymos sighed as he looked back at the party. His eyes were sad but he had one of his normal gregarious smiles on his lips like a mask.
“Like?”
“Like I’m a fool for thinking that any of them like me,” Prince Didymos admitted. “That I should be ashamed of myself for trusting anyone. It’s… the attacks are real. I know that. But some of them were made by people that I’ve known my entire life. I thought I could trust them, Kennet. I truly did. And now it’s obvious that people I trusted didn’t actually care about me at all.”
I’m writing. Original fic today, as I did yesterday. The first chapter of Artifacts of Awareness is done. This is a snippet from the in-progress second chapter. I’m thinking I may get the first seven or eight chapters done, up until the dramatic cliffhanger where Kennet nearly dies falling off a cliff in the middle of a battle is done, and call that my Original Big Bang entry.
Though… I’m honestly not sure that it’s going. :( There haven’t been any reminder posts or feedback on the comm. I’m kind of afraid that the whole challenge has died.
Either way, this is flowing better than either of my other ideas so I may go forward with this.
Kennet, FYI, is from the same world as Secrets of the Artificer Mages. He was mentioned in the book, very, very briefly, and has been dramatically expanded on in the rewrite. To the point that I had to plot out a whole story for him.
He’s also, FYI, strongly based on Jason Todd though they’re really nothing at all alike other than being big, strong fighters and rather profane. It’s the attitude I get in when I write them, more than their actual characters. Big tough guys with caustic attitudes and hearts of gold take the same mindset for me to write them. XD
Which of course means that I’m dying to write not just more Dragon Verse but also Alliance because Slade’s in the same boat.
Back to work and writing for me. I’m gonna try and finish this chapter and then go write Slade and Tim having sex or maybe Jason and Tim playing with baby drakes.
*waves*
Whoot for getting the girls some private time! :D Letting Kim and Caroline have some alone time was overdue IMO. Hope everyone likes the new chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: Girl’s Night
Rating: NC-17 in this chapter
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families, explicit F/F sex but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 3170 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit | The More Things Change | Inappropriate Suitors | Private Time | Princess Kim Arrives | On Having Two Mistresses
Feedback: Comments (even if it’s just that you read) are much loved and concrit is much appreciated!
This was posted to my DW. To read on LJ please go here.
Another chapter of Change is done! \o/ Dale’s view on things is really interesting. I do enjoy writing him, especially when he’s observing Caroline and Kim together. :D The next chapter should have sexy times for the girls, which I must admit I’m really looking forward to. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: On Having Two Mistresses
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 3610 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit | The More Things Change | Inappropriate Suitors | Private Time | Princess Kim Arrives
Feedback: Comments (even if it’s just that you read) are much loved and concrit is much appreciated!
This was posted to my DW. To read on LJ please go here.
Finally got another chapter of this story done! My writing time really has taken a hit lately, not only because of editing my novel but also because of being too busy at work and at home. Hope everyone enjoys the new chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: Princess Kim Arrives
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families, morning afters but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 3200 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit | The More Things Change | Inappropriate Suitors | Private Time
Feedback: Comments (even if it’s just that you read) are much loved and concrit is much appreciated!
This was posted to my DW. To read on LJ please go here.
Yay for finally getting some sex written! And even more yay for Dale getting to relax and be taken care of. The poor boy needed it, I think. Hope everyone enjoys the new chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: Private Time
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 3315 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit | The More Things Change | Inappropriate Suitors
Feedback: Comments (even if it’s just that you read) are much loved and concrit is much appreciated!
This was posted to my DW. To read on LJ please go here.
Got another chapter done! \o/ One that leads up to sex without quite getting there. *sighs* But the next chapter shall have sexy times so that’s good. Hope everyone enjoys the new chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: Inappropriate Suitors
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 3370 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit | The More Things Change
Feedback: Comments (even if it’s just that you read) are much loved and concrit is much appreciated!
This was posted to my DW. To read on LJ please go here.
Second chapter of my new original story! \o/ And this time we get to see things from Dale’s POV. Things should start happening a bit faster in the next few chapters. There’s lots going on in the background behind these two. Hope everyone likes the new chapter!
Story: Change Comes To The Manor: The More Things Change
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Configurations: F/F, F/m, F/F/m
Warning / Themes: Slavery, class differences, past abuse, emotional trauma, big noisy families but not much else.
Word Count: Approx 4770 words
Summary: When a new slave is delivered to the Barthall Manor into the care of Lady Meriwether Tinker Barthall it sets off a chain of events that no one expects or could ever have anticipated. Given how busy Meriwether and her trusty staff are, it’s up to her niece Caroline to deal with it all and set things right.
Previous Chapters: Caroline Arrives for a Visit
Feedback: Comments (even if it’s just that you read) are much loved and concrit is much appreciated!
This was posted to my DW. To read on LJ please go here.