FIC; A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Title: A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Author: juniperlane
A Gift For: fujiidom
Rating/Warnings: PG, historical inaccuracies galore.
Word Count: 5800
Prompt: Marriage Law AU (preferably Victorian era); Maggie Smith as Meemaw
Summary: Sheldon Cooper is the last of his line, and in need of a wife according to his meddlesome grandmother. The one she finds him is more than he ( Read more... )
Author: juniperlane
A Gift For: fujiidom
Rating/Warnings: PG, historical inaccuracies galore.
Word Count: 5800
Prompt: Marriage Law AU (preferably Victorian era); Maggie Smith as Meemaw
Summary: Sheldon Cooper is the last of his line, and in need of a wife according to his meddlesome grandmother. The one she finds him is more than he ( Read more... )
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He had imagined chance meetings just like this one, if he was being honest with himself. But in those concocted conversations, he wasn’t stumbling over his words, and Miss Edwards apologized for never returning his notes and being so unwilling to compromise, and in the darkest corners of his mind sometimes he wondered if it wouldn’t be too awful to be married after all. To have her at the house, at the table for breakfast while he read the newspapers, and then to meet her at the theatre when he was done at his office for the day, to walk the streets of London and sit companionably in the coach on the way back to their house. Their house. And he had only dared to think, in the last moments before he fell asleep, that he and Miss Edwards could share more than a house, but share a bed as well. Most of all, he imagined that he could successfully set things right between them. To give himself some sort of a possibility that she might reevaluate him as Sheldon Cooper, the man, and not Sheldon Cooper, the ( ... )
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