Fic: Until He Be Eased [Richard II, Henry IV:Gen:2k]
Title: Until He Be Eased
Fandom: Richard II
Characters: Richard II of England, Henry Bolingbroke
Rating: General Audiences
Wordcount: 1909
Additional Tags: Mental Illness, Suicidal Thoughts, grandiose delusions, modern!AU
Summary:
Doctors told Richard he was one of the patients at The Realm, a respected mental institution, where his grandfather had been a patient before him. But sometimes everything seemed so grand, surely he must be living in a royal palace.
A/N: This was my entry for the 6th Annual Histories Ficathon, where people write fanfiction for Shakespeare's history plays. It was written for highfantastical's prompt "Richard II --- Henry/Richard, in a psychiatric unit. In any sense of that phrase, at any time. Or gen, in this setting - also fascinating."
Until He Be Eased
Fandom: Richard II
Characters: Richard II of England, Henry Bolingbroke
Rating: General Audiences
Wordcount: 1909
Additional Tags: Mental Illness, Suicidal Thoughts, grandiose delusions, modern!AU
Summary:
Doctors told Richard he was one of the patients at The Realm, a respected mental institution, where his grandfather had been a patient before him. But sometimes everything seemed so grand, surely he must be living in a royal palace.
A/N: This was my entry for the 6th Annual Histories Ficathon, where people write fanfiction for Shakespeare's history plays. It was written for highfantastical's prompt "Richard II --- Henry/Richard, in a psychiatric unit. In any sense of that phrase, at any time. Or gen, in this setting - also fascinating."
Until He Be Eased