Drabble: 'Worship' (W/E - G)
Jan. 5th, 2010 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Many thanks to
hereswith for burning the midnight oil to look this over for me. 100 words of smitten Will at the beginning of CotBP, written for the current challenge at
potc100...
~ Worship ~
Folded steel… gold filigree laid into the handle… perfectly balanced…
And then she had come down the stairs. Tall and slender, a vision in satin and lace… the goddess of his idolatry.
She had dreamed of him. Asked him again, before her father, to use her Christian name – and her displeasure at his refusal to do so had nearly broken him.
That moment of pique was fitting in one so high-spirited. Surely she would understand, when she had considered.
He had no right. He was not of the same cloth. He was not worthy of one who was perfection itself.
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~ Worship ~
Folded steel… gold filigree laid into the handle… perfectly balanced…
And then she had come down the stairs. Tall and slender, a vision in satin and lace… the goddess of his idolatry.
She had dreamed of him. Asked him again, before her father, to use her Christian name – and her displeasure at his refusal to do so had nearly broken him.
That moment of pique was fitting in one so high-spirited. Surely she would understand, when she had considered.
He had no right. He was not of the same cloth. He was not worthy of one who was perfection itself.
~.~
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Date: 2010-01-06 05:13 am (UTC)Matter of respect, innit--even when it would have been a delicious gift for him to have given.
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Date: 2010-01-06 11:58 am (UTC)I love the comparison between Elizabeth and the sword -- beautiful and apt, in light of where she and the sword are both going.
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Date: 2010-01-06 03:34 pm (UTC)I know this is well written because I have the same reaction reading it that I had watching the scene in CotBP - Get down off the cross, Will, somebody else needs the wood! :-)
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Date: 2010-01-06 04:26 pm (UTC)Praise from Willofthewisp
Date: 2010-01-07 01:41 am (UTC)You've hit the nail on the head when it comes to Will in his introductory scene. Rifftrax burns him shamelessly ("would you like some dignity, sir?"), but it's just a guy tongue-tied by the girl who is so out of his league. The logic behind his refusal to call her Elizabeth is so in-character. Great job.
Re: Praise from Willofthewisp
Date: 2010-01-07 03:03 pm (UTC)did someone say Rifftrax?
Date: 2010-01-08 03:54 am (UTC)"Oh, sure, rub it in - just because you have male genitalia."
And my favorite, when Will comes into the smithy: "But why is the lusty pirate hiding from the beautiful girl?"
Re: did someone say Rifftrax?
Date: 2010-01-11 07:07 am (UTC)