Title: Family Ties
Rating: G/K
Originally posted: 3rd July 2018
Originally written for: eschscholzia
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Notes: for Drabble Exchange 2018 at Dreamwidth and AO3.
"Can it be wise, Colonel? Given our family connections, are we not making matters worse?"
There was a light in Kitty's eyes that proved she teased him.
Colonel Fitzwilliam couldn't mind at all.
"It is true, my cousin and your sister made us cousins-in-law, but this is a mere trifle. My aunt would have me marry Cousin Anne, a much crueller fate than this."
He smiled wickedly.
"In that case, sir," she sighed, "I suppose I must marry you, if only to be the lesser of two evils."
Theirs was to be a very happy, if not silly, marriage indeed.