This is my attempt at Table C from the Drabbleday community on LiveJournal. I took the 7 day challenge which involved writing a drabble a day for the full week based on the prompts given. I chose to write for the Pride and Prejudice fandom, with the pairing of Lizzy and Darcy. Each chapter is a different drabble.
A drabble is 100 words normally, however as this was my first attempt at the drabble form, I tend to overstep the word limit.
Fragments
Elizabeth Bennet x Fitzwilliam Darcy
(15/12/09 – 21/12/09)
#03 – Qualification (242 words)
Written on 17th December 2009
"Darcy, calm down man!" Charles Bingley reprimanded his friend, "Your pacing will wear a hole in the rug!"
Fitzwilliam Darcy apologised and flopped into the armchair opposite his brother-in-law.
"I cannot bear the thought of her in pain..." He admitted, holding his head in his hands. "She is hurting, and I can do nothing to ease her suffering! I am not qualified to be her husband!"
"Do not worry, Darce – Elizabeth is strong. Also, that extremely qualified, well-paid doctor of yours is attending to her and it cannot be much longer now!"
His prediction was accurate for hardly five minutes later Georgiana Darcy knocked on the study door. Darcy wasted no time in leaping from his chair, and almost ripping the door from its hinges.
"Is she safe?" He asked his younger sister, desperately.
Georgiana nodded, but before she could say any more, he rushed to the bedroom his wife had been confined to.
There he saw her - drained, pale and exhausted, and holding a bundle of blankets.
She smiled as he entered,
"Come, my darling. Come and meet your son."
Darcy sat on the edge of the bed, peering into the bundle at the tiny newborn – with wisps of dark hair and a tiny bright pink sleeping face.
He marvelled at how he had helped create such a perfect creature, and how lucky he was to have qualified as her husband and now father to such a beautiful child.