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nineveh_uk) wrote2012-05-22 12:27 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2012-05-22 12:27 pm
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Not so much a fic as a thinking aloud
Is there a giant archive of Vorkosigan fic (in English) out there that I don’t know about? There are a bare sixteen Ekaterin/Miles stories on AO3. Anyway, what I want is long fic detailing what happens when Ekaterin and Miles separate or divorce after some years of marriage. Since it isn’t there, I have had to write a very short one myself.
You might have been sorry for him—or bewitched by him—or even badgered to death by him
They had said practically everything that two people who still loved one another could say. The relief that some things were un-sayable, that Miles had not once even raised the possibility that he could keep her children from her, was almost enough to make her change her mind. But not quite.
Now even Miles was running out of arguments.
‘There hasn’t been an amicable separation in the Council of Counts since Lord Vorhallen and his wife, and that was only because his wife discovered she was also his sister. Actually,’ he continued, briefly distracted from his own distress, ‘I’m not certain they really did separate more than was necessary for appearances. She lived in the dower house and the second Lady Vorhallen just happened to die in childbirth only three years later.’
‘Then we’ll just have to make history again.’
You might have been sorry for him—or bewitched by him—or even badgered to death by him
They had said practically everything that two people who still loved one another could say. The relief that some things were un-sayable, that Miles had not once even raised the possibility that he could keep her children from her, was almost enough to make her change her mind. But not quite.
Now even Miles was running out of arguments.
‘There hasn’t been an amicable separation in the Council of Counts since Lord Vorhallen and his wife, and that was only because his wife discovered she was also his sister. Actually,’ he continued, briefly distracted from his own distress, ‘I’m not certain they really did separate more than was necessary for appearances. She lived in the dower house and the second Lady Vorhallen just happened to die in childbirth only three years later.’
‘Then we’ll just have to make history again.’
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I don’t know. If there’s one thing that Uncle Paul appears to be really sympathetic to it is the fragile young male ego. Having just re-read Mirror Dance with Cordelia wondering about the success of her ‘hands off’ approach, I wonder whether she later considers herself to have over-reacted to perhaps having expectations of her in adolescence that she felt pushed her in the wrong direction, by not providing any pushing at all. Uncle Paul would have said “sod this idealistic nonsense of mutual experimentation with peers, take lessons and offer a guarantee on the technical side and they’ll be queuing round the block.”
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I hadn't realised Cordelia had a conscious policy followed by doubts. Must re-read. But there's a difference between hands-off on Beta and hands-off on Barrayar, where the state isn't going to help any and you've got centuries of Vor culture (male and female) to counteract.
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