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thisbluespirit ([personal profile] thisbluespirit) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2023-02-07 09:20 pm

Colour of the Day 27/10/22; Twilight #14; Vienna Orange #9 [Divide & Rule]

Name: Something Breaking
Story: Divide & Rule/Heroes of the Revolution
Colors: Colour of the Day – 22nd Feb 2023 (in medias res); Twilight #14 (sine qua non); Vienna Orange #9 (Shouldn't there be screaming, praying, crying, anything at all?)
Supplies and Styles: Paint-by-Numbers from [personal profile] bookblather (Edward and Julia) & from [personal profile] shadowsong26 (silence after an announcement) + Miniature + Eraser + Novelty Beads – Birthday Prompts (stopped short).
Word Count: 100
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Mentions of death/grief.
Notes: 1958, Edward Iveson; AU (via this piece). I’ve been ill for weeks, but thought I’d might manage a drabble for the New Beginnings challenge & came up with this, and then realised it had to be 500 words, so, whoops: have a random Julia dies AU drabble just to prove i can still vaguely word anyway.
Summary: It’s the end of everything.




The Foreign Secretary presses the receiver to his ear but hears nothing more of the man’s conversation (So terribly sorry, sir); only brakes screeching, thud of impact, and glass shattering.

Everything else shatters, too: life, heart – and with a savage sense of release, his career, shared guilt; all in pieces, the gods satisified at last. Julia.

He replaces the telephone. His hands tremble but his voice is even. “Cancel everything possible – order a car to London.”

“Sir?”

Edward doesn’t look at the secretary. (Not Evans; nevermore Evans, either.) Isn’t it obvious there is only one thing left?

“Emily,” he says.

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[personal profile] bookblather 2023-02-13 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
ok I want to register my hatred of this AU, but that said this is REALLY well done and of course, of COURSE he'd think of Emily immediately. Of course she'd be the only thing.