Close Quarters, by Mariagoner (K+)
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het_reccersFandom Category: Little Women
Pairing: Jo March/Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
Fic Title: Close Quarters
Author: Mariagoner
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5150744/1/Close_Quarters
Rating/Warning(s): K+
Genre: AUish
WIP?: No
Why This Must Be Read: This author has several Jo/Laurie stories worth reading, some with sexual content, some AU, some just cracktastically awesome as she crosses over Little Women with Batman, and manages to pull it off wonderfully. I choose to rec this particular fic, because I thought it was the best characterization of both Jo and Laurie. It's how another take on the proposal could have gone, come about from the fact that they're trapped in - you guessed it - close quarters. Lovely read, and mends the heartache that canon provides us Jo/Laurie shippers and yet remains true to Jo's independence.
"If that happens, this may be one of the last times we see each others for years until one or the both of us has earned enough to skip across a continent."
She stared at him white-faced, still and nearly limp in his arms for a moment. The very thought of-- of being separated from him not merely for a few weeks or months as he went on a holiday abroad but for interminable months, maybe even years, until they could afford to cross an entire ocean between the two lands...
"I--" she began, and then tried desperately hard not to have her voice crack again. "I-- Teddy, I'm sure you exaggerate! Your grandfather loves you and... and you're all that's left to him! Surely he wouldn't-- I mean--"
He stopped her with a gentle finger laid across her lips and it was a testament to the gravity of the moment that she didn't feel the customary flood of butterflies inside from the tender act, or swat him away either. When he answered, his eyes were resolute but sad, and Jo could feel her own heart ache as she saw him looking so resigned to the coming break.
"Maybe. But probably not. He did it to my father when he left and he may well do it to me. Did you know that my grandfather didn't even come get the chance to see my father again before both he and my mother died in Italy? He tried to rush to their homes as swiftly as possible but by the time he arrived..."
Laurie closed his eyes and with a soft cry, Jo pressed her hand to his cheek, in a gesture of comfort, solidarity. His own hand rose to cup it and though any other day might have led her to pull it back and step away, Jo sighed softly and held on, held on for all she was worth here.
After all, no matter what new awkwardness might have fallen on them in past years, he was still her friend. And she would give him every support he could possibly require in such a terrible situation.
Pairing: Jo March/Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
Fic Title: Close Quarters
Author: Mariagoner
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5150744/1/Close_Quarters
Rating/Warning(s): K+
Genre: AUish
WIP?: No
Why This Must Be Read: This author has several Jo/Laurie stories worth reading, some with sexual content, some AU, some just cracktastically awesome as she crosses over Little Women with Batman, and manages to pull it off wonderfully. I choose to rec this particular fic, because I thought it was the best characterization of both Jo and Laurie. It's how another take on the proposal could have gone, come about from the fact that they're trapped in - you guessed it - close quarters. Lovely read, and mends the heartache that canon provides us Jo/Laurie shippers and yet remains true to Jo's independence.
"If that happens, this may be one of the last times we see each others for years until one or the both of us has earned enough to skip across a continent."
She stared at him white-faced, still and nearly limp in his arms for a moment. The very thought of-- of being separated from him not merely for a few weeks or months as he went on a holiday abroad but for interminable months, maybe even years, until they could afford to cross an entire ocean between the two lands...
"I--" she began, and then tried desperately hard not to have her voice crack again. "I-- Teddy, I'm sure you exaggerate! Your grandfather loves you and... and you're all that's left to him! Surely he wouldn't-- I mean--"
He stopped her with a gentle finger laid across her lips and it was a testament to the gravity of the moment that she didn't feel the customary flood of butterflies inside from the tender act, or swat him away either. When he answered, his eyes were resolute but sad, and Jo could feel her own heart ache as she saw him looking so resigned to the coming break.
"Maybe. But probably not. He did it to my father when he left and he may well do it to me. Did you know that my grandfather didn't even come get the chance to see my father again before both he and my mother died in Italy? He tried to rush to their homes as swiftly as possible but by the time he arrived..."
Laurie closed his eyes and with a soft cry, Jo pressed her hand to his cheek, in a gesture of comfort, solidarity. His own hand rose to cup it and though any other day might have led her to pull it back and step away, Jo sighed softly and held on, held on for all she was worth here.
After all, no matter what new awkwardness might have fallen on them in past years, he was still her friend. And she would give him every support he could possibly require in such a terrible situation.
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