wanting

[tree]

Title: wanting
Original text(s) erased: Kitty
Erased by: tree
Original text by: chibifrieza
Fandom (of original text): Pride and Prejudice
Fandom (of erasure): Pride and Prejudice
Notes: A handful of added or altered punctuation marks. And I somehow turned a het story into femslash. Mea culpa?

Also, the graphic version, featuring lots of white space.



wanting

One month
for the journey to themselves.
they were animated
beautiful,
all in awe.

and Look, so
a heart stirred and was glad
Catherine’s eyes fixed upon--
and she never said a word.
every body silent

she could not say any thing.

(met and fell into her arms,
          kissing her
          a chaos of kisses,
          living       astonished
          yes, here still.

And she will believe,
          hope for this)

by the window,
her hands and face like fools,
it cost her pain to miss, to long for

she left her room and hurried through halls, down stairs
hot, cold, a month, letters,
the new breadth of their capacity
from one subject to another, until,

deeply and willingly
the body.

Later, thus altered,
Three more days passed, and it was Tuesday,
she almost could not eat, and all morning
paced the garden. how badly she wished,
desired the experience of being found

Georgiana’s eyes brought love
at least that much delight:
“I am afraid I cannot help hoping
for perhaps the first time”
how eagerly between them, this afternoon.

“Darling, so much is apparent in a single day,”
a letter from Georgiana begun Hopefully,
continuing, “to see you again.”

Kitty, reading this last, went white, then scarlet,
rushed to her, lifted her gently, smiled
the joy that comes of having