#252 -Rome (TV 2005), Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon, Hornblower - C. S. Forester

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Request 1 by Anndy

Rome (TV 2005) 

Lucius Vorenus (Rome 2005), Titus Pullo (Rome 2005)

I’d like anything about the requested characters, individually or together. For example, what were their lives like pre-series? They didn’t spring up fully formed at the battle of Alesia, right? What did the early years of the Vorenus/Niobe marriage look like? Where did Pullo spend his childhood? How did they join the legion?

What if Vorenus never found out about Niobe’s adultery, but Caesar still died. What Changes? What stays the same?

The lost adventures/camping trips we never got to see! Sightseeing! Intrigue! Rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers! Making love under the stars!

Post-series happy futurefic, farm optional. Because I ship them like burning, and Vorenus and Pullo alive and reunited is the only ending my id will accept.

Letter: http://anndybanndy.dreamwidth.org/7964.html

Request 2 by Anndy

Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon 

Claire Beauchamp, Jamie Fraser

Something with emphasis on time travel shenanigans, please! Fish Out Of Temporal Water, successful attempts to change history, unsuccessful attempts to change history, time travelers just missing each others, stable time loops, culture shock, culture clash, etc. Send Jamie to the future! Have Jamie and Claire fight an evil time traveler who wants to screw up history!  The sky's the limit!

Letter: http://anndybanndy.dreamwidth.org/7964.html

Request 3 by Anndy

Hornblower - C. S. Forester 

William Bush (Hornblower - Forester), Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower - Forester), Barbara Wellesley (Hornblower - Forester)

Bush POV please! He's my favorite character. I love his steadfastness, loyalty and stoicism. I love Hornblower's perfect balance between trainwreck and competence. I love how they work together well despite vastly different command styles - and that they wouldn't want it any other way. And then you throw Barbara into the mix...

Poor Horatio always seems to want what he doesn't have. When he's with Barbara, he's pining for "better than a wife" Bush, but as soon as he's at sea he starts missing the domestic life. Really, the solution is obvious: why not both? Long live the OT3!

I'd like something post-Flying Colours and pre-Lord Hornblower (or that goes AU from it). Sheerness is really not that far from the supposed Hornblower estate. And it only makes sense to invite Bush to celebrate his new captaincy (however desk-bound) in style! And Barbara, being the astute woman she is, would notice that while Horatio is cooling his heels waiting for his next command, and Bush is valiantly struggling not to hate his post, the one thing that cheers them up is each other's company... And then Horatio comes back from the Baltic terribly sick, owing his life to Bush, who has such a hard time relinquishing the nursing duties, and he and Barbara could bond over Horatio's sickbed...

And then they all work out an arrangement and raise Richard Arthur together and there's no Caudebec, right?

Letter: http://anndybanndy.dreamwidth.org/7964.html

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