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dollsomeTitle: love and marriage and marriage
Characters: Russell, Talbot, Sophie-Anne
Spoilers: through 3x07 "Hitting the Ground"
Word Count: 552
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Talbot and Sophie-Anne aren't exactly wild about the idea of being co-married to the Vampire King of Mississippi.
Author's Note: This was written for the Doomed Ships Comment Ficathon, for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
preromantics's marvelous prompt, Russell/Sophie-Anne, dining room curtains. I AM HAVING TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS SHOW, it's official. Somebody stop me before I write the fic where Eric and Pam go Stephenie Meyer hunting! (I swear I mean that in the least evil way possible.)
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Truly, it's a match made in heaven.
"Ugh," the queen says, with very little regard for her tenuous new freedom. "These curtains. They'll have to go."
Talbot's fangs come out.
"Now, now, ma chere," Russell tells her, "don't make me lock you upstairs again! Talbot and I would so like you to feel at home here."
Talbot, alas, seems far more charmed by the first sentence than the second. "Yes! Please! Lock the bitch up! That way our home won't be inundated with her two-bit trollop’s taste, and we won't have to stare at her tacky fingernails."
Fortunately, it's in Greek. Unfortunately, Russell suspects his lady fair caught the general gist regardless. Especially that last part.
"I demand that you get rid of him," the queen orders, an adorable little bundle of titian-haired fury as she crosses her arms in front of her chest.
"Well, now, that's not going to happen," Russell chides. He does hope his expression communicates his dismay at the very idea.
This inspires a smug little hmm! from Talbot.
"And you," he adds for the sake of fairness, and turns to his better (? honestly, sometimes he wonders) half. "I thought we had talked about this."
"Hah! Hardly! When do we ever talk? You said, 'I'm going to marry the Queen of Louisiana,’ I said, ‘You will do no such thing,’ and you went out and did it anyway! At this point, Russell, if you ever listen to anything I say again I will die of shock—”
“Don’t be ridiculous, dear. Immortals cannot die of shock.”
“Watch me,” Talbot snarls. Russell does wish he would put his fangs away. They’re at the dinner table, for God’s sake.
“As long as that means we don’t have to watch your curtains,” Sophie-Anne trills.
“You vile whore!”
“Talbot, really. Sophie-Anne is a very elegant lady.”
“Please! Nell Gwyn had more class.”
Sophie-Anne’s mouth falls open. “Don’t you dare compare me to that little—”
"Two incensed queens for spouses," marvels Russell. Ever the peacemaker. "I expect there's not a man in Mississippi who'd envy me at the moment."
"Fuck you," Talbot scowls, throwing down his napkin and storming out.
"Go sunbathe," snaps Sophie-Anne, following suit.
In their absence, the dining room becomes the very picture of tranquility.
"The course of true love never did run smooth," Russell murmurs, amused. He allows himself a chuckle. Perhaps a lesser man in the same situation would find himself … irritated. Testy. Inclined to slowly and, with – mmm – delicious thoroughness, snap the fingers off the next insolent fucker who dared to cross him when he has things far more important than the domestic squabbles between a pair of spoiled centuries-old children to deal with, and who really would appreciate not being plagued with this endless inane small-minded frenzy of loathsome and mind-withering BULLSHIT—
Well. Russell chooses, instead, to make light of the situation. For now.
“He thinks he is so funny,” Talbot informs Sophie-Anne in a cranky grumble from outside the door. (Aw. Perhaps they’ll bond after all.) He adds for Russell’s benefit, in a shout positively ripe and dripping with indignation, “You think you’re so funny!”
“Well,” Russell says to the only member of the dinner party who can still stand him: the blood borscht, “yeah.”
The borscht, at least, seems to sympathize.
Characters: Russell, Talbot, Sophie-Anne
Spoilers: through 3x07 "Hitting the Ground"
Word Count: 552
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Talbot and Sophie-Anne aren't exactly wild about the idea of being co-married to the Vampire King of Mississippi.
Author's Note: This was written for the Doomed Ships Comment Ficathon, for
preromantics's marvelous prompt, Russell/Sophie-Anne, dining room curtains. I AM HAVING TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS SHOW, it's official. Somebody stop me before I write the fic where Eric and Pam go Stephenie Meyer hunting! (I swear I mean that in the least evil way possible.)+
Truly, it's a match made in heaven.
"Ugh," the queen says, with very little regard for her tenuous new freedom. "These curtains. They'll have to go."
Talbot's fangs come out.
"Now, now, ma chere," Russell tells her, "don't make me lock you upstairs again! Talbot and I would so like you to feel at home here."
Talbot, alas, seems far more charmed by the first sentence than the second. "Yes! Please! Lock the bitch up! That way our home won't be inundated with her two-bit trollop’s taste, and we won't have to stare at her tacky fingernails."
Fortunately, it's in Greek. Unfortunately, Russell suspects his lady fair caught the general gist regardless. Especially that last part.
"I demand that you get rid of him," the queen orders, an adorable little bundle of titian-haired fury as she crosses her arms in front of her chest.
"Well, now, that's not going to happen," Russell chides. He does hope his expression communicates his dismay at the very idea.
This inspires a smug little hmm! from Talbot.
"And you," he adds for the sake of fairness, and turns to his better (? honestly, sometimes he wonders) half. "I thought we had talked about this."
"Hah! Hardly! When do we ever talk? You said, 'I'm going to marry the Queen of Louisiana,’ I said, ‘You will do no such thing,’ and you went out and did it anyway! At this point, Russell, if you ever listen to anything I say again I will die of shock—”
“Don’t be ridiculous, dear. Immortals cannot die of shock.”
“Watch me,” Talbot snarls. Russell does wish he would put his fangs away. They’re at the dinner table, for God’s sake.
“As long as that means we don’t have to watch your curtains,” Sophie-Anne trills.
“You vile whore!”
“Talbot, really. Sophie-Anne is a very elegant lady.”
“Please! Nell Gwyn had more class.”
Sophie-Anne’s mouth falls open. “Don’t you dare compare me to that little—”
"Two incensed queens for spouses," marvels Russell. Ever the peacemaker. "I expect there's not a man in Mississippi who'd envy me at the moment."
"Fuck you," Talbot scowls, throwing down his napkin and storming out.
"Go sunbathe," snaps Sophie-Anne, following suit.
In their absence, the dining room becomes the very picture of tranquility.
"The course of true love never did run smooth," Russell murmurs, amused. He allows himself a chuckle. Perhaps a lesser man in the same situation would find himself … irritated. Testy. Inclined to slowly and, with – mmm – delicious thoroughness, snap the fingers off the next insolent fucker who dared to cross him when he has things far more important than the domestic squabbles between a pair of spoiled centuries-old children to deal with, and who really would appreciate not being plagued with this endless inane small-minded frenzy of loathsome and mind-withering BULLSHIT—
Well. Russell chooses, instead, to make light of the situation. For now.
“He thinks he is so funny,” Talbot informs Sophie-Anne in a cranky grumble from outside the door. (Aw. Perhaps they’ll bond after all.) He adds for Russell’s benefit, in a shout positively ripe and dripping with indignation, “You think you’re so funny!”
“Well,” Russell says to the only member of the dinner party who can still stand him: the blood borscht, “yeah.”
The borscht, at least, seems to sympathize.
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:43 am (UTC)I WILL DO NO SUCH THING. I ENCOURAGE THIS.
Also, tiny nitpick- since Sophie-Anne is very much une fille, Russell would say 'ma chere.' For Talbot, he'd use 'mon cher.' ;) Other than that, this is delightful. I love that you keep finding the nonstop hilarious parts of this show and writing fic. (I kind of wish you'd write Franklin, but I will instead put all my hope into you writing Eric and Pam.)
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:46 am (UTC)Also,
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:50 am (UTC)I, once again, am in awe of your grasp of comedy. No one does it quite like you!!!
P.S. If you feel so inclined to write that Pam and Eric story, I would like, be forever and ever in awe of you.
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Date: 2010-09-16 04:08 am (UTC)That said, I love this! It's so in character and so funny.
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Date: 2010-09-16 04:38 am (UTC)I won't stop you should you choose to take on this venture...
I miss Talbot.
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Date: 2010-09-16 04:39 am (UTC)“Please! Nell Gwyn had more class.”
Sophie-Anne’s mouth falls open. “Don’t you dare compare me to that little—”
OH MY GOD YOU DID NOT ACTUALLY—
you did and I will never stop flailing, oh my god what is the world. The Doomed Ship Ficathon seriously has my heart forever, and this? Would be why.
Also this is hysterical, which I hope you know. THE BORSCHT.
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Date: 2010-09-16 06:21 am (UTC)Hah! I'm sure that's exactly what happened.
“Well,” Russell says to the only member of the dinner party who can still stand him: the blood borscht, “yeah.”
Outstanding.
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Date: 2010-09-16 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-16 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-16 07:44 pm (UTC)Everyone is so in character, and why are Russell and Talbot bye-bye, I WANT THIS TO BE REAL! I WANT TO EXIST SEEING THIS VERSE.
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Date: 2010-09-16 08:51 pm (UTC)And: Please do not let anything stop you from writing more True Blood, even if it somehow involves Stephanie Meyer :D
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Date: 2010-09-17 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-17 01:26 am (UTC)Thank you for reading! :)
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Date: 2010-09-17 01:26 am (UTC)And oh, we all miss Talbot! It's become one of the most tragic staples of the human condition.
Thanks for reading. :)
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Date: 2010-09-17 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-17 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-17 01:30 am (UTC)Thank you for reading, my friend! :)
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Date: 2010-09-17 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-17 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-17 08:17 am (UTC)Fanfiction can make up for what we've lost. And Mr Ball's team seem to keep an eye on internet activity. Fans do influence the show.
Godric's pupularity prompted the writers to include him in season 3. If a lot more posts appear about the best Mississipi old married couple, TB writers might listen to us and give Russell more air time...and bring back Talbot (even if only in flashbacks).
I want to keep hoping.
As for Stephanie Meyer...by all means write a fic where all our favourite TB vamps hunt her down. And...can they hunt down the Twilight movies production team too? Russell would love a little on set appearance. LOL
Can anyone replace reality with fanfiction? *sigh*
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Date: 2010-09-17 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-19 06:39 am (UTC)... Okay, so the answer to that is probably a very loud NO! but even so, I enjoyed this hugely.
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Date: 2010-09-19 06:46 am (UTC)Thank you! :)
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