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Declan/Alison  »  Sanditon

- Really, Sir, have you no heart at all? 

- None. Just a cold, hard rock in its place.

oho OF COURSE!!

35. hold my hand

“If there is one sadness in this turn of events,” Alison says, “it is merely that we—you and I—the two of us—have been denied the sprawling story of a true and whole courtship.”

Fraser cannot resist raising his eyebrow in query, a million sharp retorts on his tongue. They sit in a garden outside Trafalgar House, and a burst of laughter from the dinner party within grants him a moment to consider which ammunition to volley here.

He finally settles upon, “What, pray tell, could we do as awkward and unacquainted strangers that we cannot do now?” and fondly bumps his fiancée’s shoulder in reminder.

“I would have liked to be less angry with you for longer, for starters; we’ve no letters to—”

Alison’s explanation is cut short as Fraser lifts her hand and calmly removes her evening gloves, folds them neatly upon his thigh, and twines his bare hand with hers.

“This could hardly be considered a ball, but—will a chaste touch of skin in the privacy of a stolen moment do?” he asks, with a smoldering look he hopes is taken as rakish and brazen.

Alison narrows her eyes, torn between irritation and amusement as she so often is in his presence, and she obligingly squeezes his hand and says, “Oh, if it must,” around a smile.

Fandom: Sanditon (TV)

Notes: Fill for the “corn maze” prompt by @roamingbadger. Alison/Fraser modern AU. A simple title finally came to me that I liked.

It had seemed like a quaint idea, going into a corn maze. Suitable even for children, Fraser had thought. But then, he and Alison had arrived at the maze, and he had seen the tall green stalks and how closely grown together they were up close. His young wife, however, had seemed undeterred by the sight.

"I'm right over here,

Why can't you see me?