A/N: This will eventually be a drabble (well, more of a blob) collection, but in the meantime I have just... one drabble/blob to offer. I'm not familiar with the AGATB fandom, this was written in about ten minutes, and it hasn't been revised, but I like the prompt enough to post it. I may revise it later, as I (always) tend to do (even though I tell myself I won't).


Prompt: Put Down the Donut If You Please!
Fandom: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Felicity jerked in the stiff, wooden carriage seat as the incompetent driver hurled them over yet another rut in the road.

Her mother sat in front of her, fanning her face. "A bit bouncy, this carriage," she remarked breezily.

"A bit," Felicity whispered, venom tingeing her voice. The hard, sharp edge of her corset wedged its way under her breasts as she bounced in her seat yet again. "Mother, surely this driver knows of a smoother way home."

Lady Worthington issued a noncommittal sigh, the smile on her pale face straining just a bit at the edges as she turned her attention away from her daughter. "Ann, dear, make sure you keep a grip on those pastries. Admiral Worthington ordered them specially to welcome Polly."

Beside Felicity, Ann, pale eyes wide, nodded. "I will, madam."

Felicity snorted, crossing her arms. She scuffed the toe of her shoe moodily on the grimy floor, admiring the sooty grains that clung to it.

The carriage jerked violently to the right. Felicity swore, Lady Worthington gasped, and something smashed against the carriage wall. Ann whimpered, and as her hands flew to the back of her skull the carriage bounced the bag of pastries out of her lap. They spilled in a magnificently colorful, sticky mess all over the dirt and grime of the carriage floor.

"Oh dear," Lady Worthington said. The lace fan fluttered incessantly before her face.

"Oh, oh my!" Ann garbled. "I am so dreadfully sorry- so- so terribly sorry!" She choked the only surviving pastry in her white, gloved hand, her pale eyes overly wide.

"Ann, dear," Felicity hissed, massaging her temples. "Put the donut down if you please."