Slowly, then All at Once

by miceenscene

"Marriage? Mother, you can't be serious." The red head groaned, dropping on the bed dramatically. "I am deathly serious, Fergus, and stand up straight." How Elinor and Fergus met, fell in love, and married...not necessarily in that order.

16. Author's Note

Hey gang,

Wow. I remember the night I got the idea for this story, it originally started as a one-shot before I realized how much more I wanted to put into it. 3 years, almost 20,000 words, and all of you guys later, here we are. And while I had plans to tell Fergus & Elinor's story all the way up to the birth of Merida, I think this is a good place to stop. My life has changed a lot since who I was 3 years ago, and I don't think I'll be writing any more fanfiction. No one's making me leave or anything, I just want to really focus more on my original writing. But I felt I owed it to all of you who have been so amazing to get Fergus and Elinor to a happy place.

If you want a brief overview of what I thought the continuing story should be, free free to see below. If you just like it the way it is, don't feel like you need to read it.

You guys have been awesome, and it's been a lot of fun writing this story. Thanks.

TL;DW (too long; didn't write) version of the rest of Slowly, then all at Once

Fergus and Elinor spend a very blissful winter with the DunBroch clan, being super in love and happy. Elinor becomes a little worried why they haven't had kids yet, especially after attending Dirk's wedding and the news comes quickly that Lady MacGuffin is expecting. But that little problem is busted up by the big problem of invaders from the sea. They burn down a couple villages along the coast in DunBroch and Macintosh territories. Fergus allies all of the clans, DunBroch, Macintosh, MacGuffin, and Dingwall. (When going to the Dingwall fortress, the other lords found Lord Dingwall already in retreat and hiding under a bridge, earning him many insulting nicknames.) Elinor is meanwhile running the castle and preparing defensive measures in case things turn out poorly with Fergus's war.

The battle rages against the invaders, and unfortunately Col Macintosh is killed, but Ean gets his revenge a moment later. The invaders are defeated and all agree that without Fergus uniting them, they would have lost the war. So using their new unity, they title Fergus King and Elinor becomes his queen.

Ean marries Aileen as soon as he returns to the Macintosh castle, and quickly has a son. It takes a little more time till Elinor and Fergus finally have Merida, and she becomes the rambunctious light of their life.

(If one of you would like to write this, you have my blessing.)