The 5 Things Meme.

[quigonejinn]

You know the drill.

Do me a favor and ask for five things. My fandoms are: Star Wars, Hornblower, RPF for Paul McGann and/or other Hornblower actors, Supernatural, West Wing, Venture Brothers, Boondock Saints and really, anything that you might desire to see done in a halfassed way. If anybody wants it, I'll even write Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, and Harry Potter.

Be greedy and ask for lots. I'm in a rut these days, and writing these short little things will help me pare down my blather tendencies. :D

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5 things Hornblower said in his sleep that Barbara heard after Caudebec
and
5 things Hornblower wished he had said to Bush

[billytaylor.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, those are brilliant ... why do I suck so?

5 things Hornblower said in his sleep that Barbara heard after Caudebec.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

1. "Set a course to weather the Foreland. We're taking the Hotspur to sea, Mr. Bush."

2. "Goodbye, Bush."

3. "Kingston, sir, and we'll hang the expense."

4. "Maria." Her husband had said this even before Caudebec, but it grew more common after Caudebec. After meeting the Comtess, Barbara also realized that it could be Marie, too, especially when said with soft, loving tones and not with his fists clenched by his side.

5. Really, Hornblower was not talkative in his sleep as a general rule; he was such a light sleeper, and it made Barbara's stomach ache in a way that she was not quite familiar with to hear him start to sing For He's a Jolly Good Fellow in a croaky, utterly tuneless tenor. She never knew the dream in which Hornblower sang the song, and Hornblower never told her the circumstances in which Bush had sung it to him.

Nevertheless, she could tell that Hornblower was struggling to sing along with someone. He wanted to follow them very badly.

5 things Hornblower wished he had said to Bush

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

1. There is very little that Hornblower wished he could have said to Bush. So much of their friendship was based on instinctive emtional sympathy and closeness that even for Hornblower, the more articulate of the two of them, half the things that passed through his mind could never have been expressed.

Still: "I've decided to send one of the bomber boat captains."

2. "I'd be much obliged if you'd come visit us at Smallbridge when you have the time, Bush."

3. "Splendid job taking the squadron home, Captain Bush. Absolutely splendid."

4. "Per-perhaps we d-don't, hic, need girls, William."

5. From a dream, and which Barbara heard him attempt in the days after Caudebec: in a never-used tenor,

We won't go home until morning,
We won't go home until morning,
We won't go home until morning,
Till daylight doth appear.