Sharpe drabble
Dec. 20th, 2008 04:15 amTitle: 'Portuguese morning'
Author: le_russe_satan
Pairing/Character(s): Sharpe/Wellington
Rating: PG
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A/N: This drabble has zero plot value really, I was in the mood for something a little poetic. Hm.
The orange trees are blurred in the soft grey light of an early morning, their leaves moving and whispering in the breeze, the fragrant white petals swirling slowly, sensuously like exotic dancers towards the ground.
The figure moving through the orchard too is blurred at the edges, unreal, ephemeral. His voice when he speaks holds a note of uncertainty as if he has trouble believing that this is not a dream, that this apparition is not a ghost that will melt away the moment he opens his eyes.
'Captain Sharpe?'
But the figure moves closer, coming into focus, becoming clear-cut and solid; a tall man with raven hair and eyes green like the orange tree leaves, a man of flesh and blood.
Arthur knows that he should turn away from this reality, yet the perfume of dying orange blossoms clouds his mind and instead he reaches out to pluck a stray petal from Richard's hair.