Ta-dah!
Here we are with another promo chapter. Shameless advertising for my fics elsewhere (get it up ye, fanfiction illuminati) over at Archive of Our Own or AO3. I can be found under the name SinisterScribe (all one word) and the complete versions of my fanfictions are over there in all their deviant glorious entirety.
It has been pointed out to me by someone that you can get alerts on AO3 though they did not say how to go about doing so. This will be my next project and I'll get back to y'all when I can.
Not much happens in this chapter but it is rather important when it comes to the plot marching on for bridging purposes so it was difficult to pick an interesting excerpt but I like to think I picked one of the more tantalising conversations :D
Anyone want that 'First Time' scene to appear in future chapters?
Still, there's lots of Henry/Regina/Norman and Regina/Graham fluff for all you people that read my stuff for the romance rather than the explosions and blood.
It really is terribly ironic that I find it difficult to write fluff now when it was all I could write when I first started fanfiction way back when. Now I'm all "NO THERE MUST BE PLOT! AND EXPLOSIONS! AND MORE PLOT! okay let's put a little sex in there too BUT NOW MORE EXPLOSIONS!"
Anyways, teasers below, more to be found on le other site.
Again, I'd post links but ffnet are all dicks and if they'd made an exception or just ignored little old me none of us would be in this mess.
Feel free to write a letter of complaint.
A lot B]
Enjoy.
"That isn't a word and you haven't answered my question. Riding you on top of my dead husband's coffin isn't exactly…right." Regina stared at the ceiling rather than look at him.
"Well for a start, it wasn't one sided, I was claiming you right in front of your husband."
"He was dead."
"Semantics."
"Really?"
"Really AND," Graham spoke over her when she opened her mouth to protest, "it was our first time. That's right enough."
Regina turned her face away from his and she looked over at the chink of light streaming in through the tiny gap in the curtains. It took a long moment but he saw the barest of smirks curl her mouth.
"It was fairly…memorable."
"I'll bet the blackguard remember it." Graham showed all his teeth.
A flush stole up over Regina's neck and her eyes darted back to his.
"I thought I'd ordered them to leave."
"Can you blame them for staring? You never look more beautiful than when you're shivering and coming down from whatever wicked thing I've done to you."
"You could have ordered them to leave." She grumbled.
"I told you, I was claiming you. The point was for them to see."
"You put me on display deliberately?!"
"Aye." Graham finally succeeded in squirming her out of her sweater so she wore just the tank top and her bra. "And I'd do it again."
"You will not."
"Every chance I get." Graham hoisted her tanktop up over the smooth planes of her stomach. She tried to push his hands away but he batted them away and began to peel back her bandaging.
"I am not a prize to be won. Nor a broodmare to be shown off at market."
"Have I ever spouted such nonsense?" Graham looked her dead in the eye. "I am not your first husband nor will I ever tolerate being compared to him. You are precious to me in a way that he could never comprehend. Yes?"
Regina looked down at his shirt front and plucked at the buttons again.
"If you say so."
"I mean so." Graham ducked his head so she had to look him in the eye. "You are my wife and if I may not tell the world with words it shall certainly be with action. I do not require that you wear a ring but you shall wear my scent. I do not need you to call me husband but I shall be the first you call if ever you are in need. You do not belong to me but you are part of me and I you. This is what it is to be married. This is what it should be. I cannot change your life how it has been lived but I can change your future and how that should be."
The rest can be found over on Archive Of Our Own. Look forward to catching you over there :D.
Have a great day.