Aubreyad fanfic: Diana Villiers/Louisa Wogan

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Mrs Wogan's Most Singular Amour

Series: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
Rated: PG
Pairing: Louisa/Diana
Note: I wrote this for femslash100. I haven't even finished Desolation Island yet so I apologise if this contradicts eventual canon. Also, it's short.


Louisa had always preferred the company of men, and recognised the same general preference in Mrs Villiers. Their likeness was often commented upon with amusement and admiration: the same blue eyes, black hair, graceful, free manners, and questionable pasts, of these beauties of the old Empire's extremities: British India and America.

Louisa liked Diana like no other woman, and felt some modicum of her affection returned. Diana was much like a man – less inclined to honest flattery, but fearless, witty and quite without hypocrisy. She went to bed as lightly as Louisa, as naturally: and her form was well-acquianted with love's joys and excitements, and she could delight, on occasion, also on the pleasure of others.

Louisa saw other women, those few peripheral flowers of their world, shrink before Diana; heard the hatred in their lowered voices directed towards Diana, if not Louisa herself. They quivered, the silly geese, before this force of nature.

(Sometimes Louisa wished they had been nothing but gay wives without husbands; that they could share a house and entertain as they wished; but that freedom was reserved for greater heiresses than they. Money was the reason she left her coded notes on Diana's bedside table and swore her to secrecy and the delivery of the notes, even as she left her Judas kiss on Diana's lips.)

Louisa had always preferred men, but they were a twelve in a dozen, as easily forgotten as received. There would never be any other woman for her than Diana.

Comments

[karla-yonit.livejournal.com]

O'BRIAN FEMSLASH!!! Been looking for some forever! (Clarissa/Diana, but never mind.) You really win so much. Why don't you post this at rarelitslash, since it's book-based?

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

I know, but I haven't read far enough to know Clarissa. Everyone keeps saying that, though.

I am not going to join rarelitslash because dude, I already have too many communities.

[karla-yonit.livejournal.com]

Can I link it then?

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

:) I'd be flattered.

[karla-yonit.livejournal.com]

Will do!

[ladyhamilton.livejournal.com]

Awesome! What a great idea for a pairing, and you really captured the tone of the period and made it believable. =)

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Heh, I was worried about that.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Here from rarelitslash and OMG. Thank you! I have been shipping Sophie/Clarissa for ages, simply ages, but this is a lovely Diana pairing as well. Thank you!

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Hi! Yes, I was told it would be linked. :) Glad you liked it!

As I said above, I don't know Clarissa yet, but people keep saying that. :)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! I love to see O'Brian femslash.

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

:) Glad to add to a meager supply.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like this - good Louisa voice you have. There always seemed to be a good slash potential with these two, so yay!

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you!

[ida-pea.livejournal.com]

Never read femmeslash in this fandom before, so yay for you!

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

What a pretty icon!

Heh, yay for me! But I really do femslash everything in sight. People keep telling me to slash Clarissa, and I probably will when I read up to her.