Fic: 'A Great Service and a Bitter Grief' (Flight of the Heron)

[luzula]

Ta da! Here's the alternate ending to If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions, without the major character death, because of course I want to have my cake and eat it too. OMG, counting both works, the whole thing is over 100K. : D

If you haven't read the book, it's quite possible to read this series anyway, since it goes AU from the beginning. But, like most canon divergence AU:s, there are things you won't appreciate fully if you haven't read canon.

A Great Service and a Bitter Grief (33284 words) by Luzula
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, James St Clair, Charles Edward Stuart (1720 – 1788), Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, Donald Cameron 19th Lochiel (c.1695 - 1748), Earl of Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Lady Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy), Lachlan MacMartin, Neil MacMartin, Francis Delahaye
Additional Tags: Alternate History, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Romance, War, Plotty, Politics, Alternate Universe of an Alternate Universe, Character Death Fix, Happy Ending
Series: Part 2 of If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions
Summary: An alternate happy ending to "If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions", with no major character death.

Comments

[james]

YAY

[luzula]

...did you read 100K overnight? : ) Well, overnight for me.

[james]

Er, no I just read this particular part two? Because I was very excited and didn't want to stay up and start at the beginning like a normal person.

[luzula]

Ha ha, okay! I do recommend reading the first part too. It will be less confusing that way. ; )

[james]

Oh I plan to! But I am very used to reading stories out of order. Plot points don't need to make sense to me for me to enjoy a story. ;-) (I am the person who reads the end of the book to see how things resolve before I read the whole book, or read the synopsis of a movie or play, etc, before I watch it. I need to know how things resolve emotionally before I invest my time, both so I can avoid things that will upset me and just to know where to put my expectations as I read/watch.

Which means that when I want to skip to the "everyone lives" part, I can, and now I can read the whole thing of the other part and be able to cope with Ewen dying because I know in my heart he didn't really. ;-)

[luzula]

Ah, okay! I get it, then. : )

[regshoe]

Wahey :D

[luzula]

Now I feel all proud of having finished it!