A Little Flower By Skeldale House

Beautiful Soup - G - Audrey, Siegfried & the Herriot children: Audrey is making soup, Jimmy and Rosie have something to say about it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83755506/chapters/235848381

“So the old goat finally kicked the bucket. Not one day too early if you ask me, he could have saved us all a great deal of sorrow if he had popped his clogs years ago.”

“Edward! He was your father!”

”Aye. And he did a very poor job out of it. I wonder how many times in me life it’s happened that I wished someone else was me father. People who actually cared and saw something good in me.”

Audrey shivered in the cold wind. She felt a bit sick of sleep deprivation and the shock that still almost paralysed her.

Slow burns that I have loved and cherished. ❤️

Helena Russel & John Koenig, Space 1999

James and Anne Onedin, The Onedin Line

Beatrice Elliott & Jack Maddox, The House of Elliott

Dana Scully & Fox Mulder, The X-files

Lady Mary Crawley & Matthew Crawley, Downton Abbey

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Siegfried Farnon/Mrs. Hall | Audrey Hall, Siegfried Farnon & Mrs. Hall | Audrey Hall Characters: Siegfried Farnon, Mrs. Hall | Audrey Hall (All Creatures Great and Small) Additional Tags: First Night, Love, Sex, the morning after Series: Part 5 of Tales from ‘New’ Skeldale Summary:

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“And you are the mother of mr Edward Hall and the former wife of Mr Robert Hall?”

“I am. Please tell me why you’re calling at this hour.”

“We have been trying to get hold of your son, but it seems he is no longer resident of the boarding house in Sunderland where he last lived.”

”That’s true, he moved out two weeks ago, but..”

“Mrs Hall, I have some serious news for your son, is it possible to reach him tonight over the phone?”

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”Oh, I think Siegfried’s about to make a speech!

“Dear friends! I can’t even begin to say how happy I am to see you all here today. I have always said – and often insisted quite stubbornly – that Christmas Day is for the close family only. But if I may borrow for a moment from the Romans….”

Tristan sighed out loud with such emphasis that everyone started laughing.

“Yes, yes, dear brother, I know you don’t share my gratitude towards our early ancestors but please hear me out!”

“As long as we won’t be sitting here until New Year’s!” his brother whined.

The flash of a memory from a year ago went through her mind as she sat down on the sofa surrounded by so much happiness. So different from last time. How all the hopes she’d had for the first peacetime Christmas were shattered when suddenly Siegfried had invited Dorothy to Christmas lunch. And even though he had done exactly what she’d told him to do, her inside was like an open wound. She remembered how the muscles in her face had ached from smiling constantly. To be honest, it wasn’t a smile, it was more like a grimace, a contortion. And no one had noticed. Siegfried hadn’t even looked at her, he almost seemed to avoid her. It had been a horrible day from beginning to end.