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Hush.
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15 Sep 2025
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“There were the two nights when it rained, and they all slept huddled together under the shelter of a blanket stretched between willow trees—there had been a ridiculous pleasure about waking up to find Bush snoring beside him with a protective arm across him.” (C.S. Forester, Flying Colours)
Brown wakes up to find the answers to some questions he didn't know he had.
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20 Aug 2025
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"The wardroom was stifling.
Even at sea, far from land and its stifled summer breath, the night refused mercy. The timbers of the Indefatigable groaned with the heat, as though the ship herself was parched and yearning for relief. There was no wind, not even the faintest whisper through the open stern windows. Only the lethargic creak of the hull and the sluggish flicker of the candle on the table broke the silence.
Archie Kennedy sat in his shirt-sleeves, boots discarded beneath the table, coat flung carelessly over the back of a chair. Across from him, Horatio Hornblower had, at last, succumbed to exhaustion."
Archie watches Horatio sleep of a too warm evening.
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24 Jul 2025
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“I wish for your sake, if nothing else, that we might see some action – or at least some variety.”
Hornblower glances at him, surprised. “I didn’t know you took me for a fire-eater,” he says.
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07 Jul 2025
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Horatio returns from Russia suffering the aftereffects of typhus. Caring for him may be too much for Barbara to handle alone.
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25 Jun 2025
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Hornblower introduces his captain to his wife. (A missing chapter from the beginning of Commodore Hornblower.)
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24 Jun 2025
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Years ago, then-Midshipman Bush brought a couple of embarrassing souvenirs back from shore leave. He's used to them and used to concealing them, and doesn’t think of them much, except when the weather turns cold. One night on Hotspur, Captain Hornblower discovers what he’s been hiding.
The good captain is not actually displeased.
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- Part 3 of Queer Fancies
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06 Jun 2025
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It is generally known what happened the day Captain Hornblower said goodbye to his crew and to Hotspur. It is somewhat less well known what happened two days prior-- when he said goodbye to his first lieutenant and Hotspur on more intimate terms. (Or: in which Bush and Hornblower slide down the slippery slopes of sentiment.)
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- Part 5 of Queer Fancies
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22 May 2025
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The Renoun is caught in a downpour (set during Mutiny)
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07 May 2025
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Giftee wanted something sweet and fluffy with Daddy!Pellew.
Alternate ending/missing scene to Hornblower: Duty. Completely ignores Maria (sorry, Maria)
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07 May 2025
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It had been so long that Horatio had virtually forgotten what it felt like: the paralysis of mind and body, the sense of nightmare horror, the cessation of time, his mind in chaos. He was in the rigging far above the upper deck, and the sense of fear had come upon him.
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26 Mar 2025
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A bookverse 'missing scene', set early in CS Forester's Commodore Hornblower. It is April, 1812: Commodore Hornblower and Captain Bush are reunited and face their first real challenge aboard Nonsuch, not long after setting sail for their mission in the Baltic.
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18 Mar 2025
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During the Peace of Amiens, a chance meeting between Pellew and his favourite old lieutenant gets a little… intense.
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- Part 2 of Queer Fancies
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14 Mar 2025
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uncharted waters by orphan_account
Fandoms: Hornblower (TV), Hornblower - C. S. Forester
10 Sep 2021
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You like it when Bush reads to you.
An argument as common as it is specific unfolds, and is resolved—after a fashion.
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05 Mar 2025
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There is a conspiracy of the vilest sort brewing in your bedroom.
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05 Mar 2025
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If Bush had ever thought about it, he would have expected his men to come to him for advice on seamanship. It never occurred to him that they might come to him for his learning.
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21 Feb 2025
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In the world we know, the unforgiving training of the Royal Naval lingers in James Flint. He treats his crew as expendable; they're not more important than the mission. Not more important than his all-consuming crusade to fulfill Thomas Hamilton's dream for a free Nassau. He has Miranda for safe harbor. All his love and devotion go to her.
In another world, when a beaten but not broken James McGraw is told that Thomas and Miranda are dead before he is even transported to the colonies, piracy is what saves him. His crew is his safe harbor. There is no one waiting for him at home in the interior. And when a man whose passion and rhetoric can ignite a war against the civilized world starts thinking about building pirate alliances that much sooner...the world changes.
Or, the sweeping Pirate versus Britain war AU that no one but James Flint asked for, full of angst, suffering, brotherhood, and of course, sea battles.
Eventually, James Flint will find peace. But not without taking back his freedom first.
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- Part 1 of In the Darkness, There Be Dragons
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10 Feb 2025
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“There we go,” he says, nudging Ed’s legs further apart. “Good girl, Ed.”
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05 Feb 2025
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“This is your plan?” Flint sneers, looking at Silver like he’d expected no better. “Hiding below decks like a rat?”
“Now Captain, that’s unkind,” Silver pouts, trying to hide his hurt behind teasing reproach. All day he has tried to match Flint, to fight alongside him though he is ill-suited to it, and it has earned him nothing but disdain. Now it’s time to do things his way for a while. “Like a stowaway, at least.”
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After they have taken the warship and been cast out of the crew, Flint and Silver are forced to contend with each other and the nature of their relationship.
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- Part 3 of our feast is but beginning
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03 Feb 2025
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Stede Bonnet has a bit of an incident. Luckily, there's a handsome stranger on hand to assist...
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10 Jan 2025