Here's something short and light I wrote while procrastinating.
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Quiet Beginnings
Prompt: Happiness
She does not know that there's a ring somewhere in a compartment too high for her to reach in the Rampion. She doesn't know that he's been planning this scenario at least a hundred different times, a hundred different ways, doesn't know that a silly cord of wire was never in any of his imagined scenes. She doesn't know that he's half expecting her to say no because he still has inklings that she's too good for him, will always be.
She doesn't know that he doesn't know why he's decided to forgo the big romantic gesture and the very expensive ring for this quiet moment of happiness and a frazzled wire.
She looks at the makeshift ring, then up at him, then back down at the ring.
"Oh," she says.
And then she starts crying.
I've been thinking about writing something long for Cresswell. Something really long. Like novel-length long. But I'm just not sure if I'll find the patience to finish it (I don't want to have an incomplete multi-chapter fic haunting me), and I'm not sure which of my plot bunnies I want to expand for starters anyway. I have way too many AUs swimming in my head. (PM me if you ever want to discuss my cray cray ideas.)
In the meanwhile, I published a poem (yay!). It's called "Stars" and it was published by Strange Horizons last week (there's a podcast as well). I'd love it if you guys could give it a read. And thank you again for the reviews and all the encouragement. If I could, I would hug each and every one of you.