If his queer Commodore [Hornblower] chose to be in a bad mood it was best to leave him to it —- Bush was better than a wife, thought Hornblower, his acute perceptions noting the gesture.
DYING OVER HERE. DYING. WHILE THEY ARE SITTING AT BREAKFAST TOGETHER. IT IS YEARS AND YEARS AFTER LOYALTY/DUTY SO THERE HAS BEEN PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS TRUST TO BE BUILT UP AND HOLY GOD IT FILLS ME WITH THE SQUEE.
There is a bit in the book just previous about them holding hands in carriage, and adjkg;lkdjf. I don't care if I can never muster up an image of them making out or having sex or even how they'd ever get together. I will be entirely happy with canon descriptions of crazy crazy crazy Horatio reaching across the carriage to grip Bush's hand in the dark and how Bush caresses Horatio's hand like he would a woman's.
And you're absolutely dead-on about what the saddest part of the Bloody Maria Mess is. I hadn't thought of it nearly as clearly as you did, but you're exactly right. There's something painful about how much Horatio has changed from the good, generous boy that we saw in Examination or the Archie episodes -- he did his duty back then, too, but man. It really, really got me that we find out about the death of Horatio's father indirectly, y'know?
Also painful to see how hard it was for Horatio to catch very much that Pellew insinuated outside of the standard technical shop talk or political stuff. He could catch the Bonaparte stuff perfectly well, but oh, let Pellew make a suggestion about family or women or something that involves Horatio at his heart, and you're practically guaranteed a stupefied face for at least a couple seconds.
Pellew, on the other hand, has a picture of a woman on his work desk. :/ By the way. Did you get an e-mail from me on the books? I tried to send it through LJ, but *pokes lack of competence with gmail and the general contrariness of LJ these days*
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YET MORE HORATIO/BUSH. BECAUSE I NEED SOME VENT.
Date: 2005-12-28 09:58 am (UTC)DYING OVER HERE. DYING. WHILE THEY ARE SITTING AT BREAKFAST TOGETHER. IT IS YEARS AND YEARS AFTER LOYALTY/DUTY SO THERE HAS BEEN PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS TRUST TO BE BUILT UP AND HOLY GOD IT FILLS ME WITH THE SQUEE.
There is a bit in the book just previous about them holding hands in carriage, and adjkg;lkdjf. I don't care if I can never muster up an image of them making out or having sex or even how they'd ever get together. I will be entirely happy with canon descriptions of crazy crazy crazy Horatio reaching across the carriage to grip Bush's hand in the dark and how Bush caresses Horatio's hand like he would a woman's.
And you're absolutely dead-on about what the saddest part of the Bloody Maria Mess is. I hadn't thought of it nearly as clearly as you did, but you're exactly right. There's something painful about how much Horatio has changed from the good, generous boy that we saw in Examination or the Archie episodes -- he did his duty back then, too, but man. It really, really got me that we find out about the death of Horatio's father indirectly, y'know?
Also painful to see how hard it was for Horatio to catch very much that Pellew insinuated outside of the standard technical shop talk or political stuff. He could catch the Bonaparte stuff perfectly well, but oh, let Pellew make a suggestion about family or women or something that involves Horatio at his heart, and you're practically guaranteed a stupefied face for at least a couple seconds.
Pellew, on the other hand, has a picture of a woman on his work desk. :/
By the way. Did you get an e-mail from me on the books? I tried to send it through LJ, but *pokes lack of competence with gmail and the general contrariness of LJ these days*