Miscellaneous fics

These fics didn’t quite fit in with my other themes, but I love them all and I wanted to share. One Gilmore Girls (more Paris/Rory!), one Les Miserables (focused, naturally, on my darling Eponine), and one for Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, a canon that I personally would be rather afraid to take on because the original is so impressive.

Title: Boston Marriage
Author: jae_w
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing: Rory/Paris
Rating: G
Word Count: 5437
Warnings: None. Copious Powerpoint presentations?
Summary: Paris would like to make a proposal.

Excerpt: "As I said, I would like to make you a proposal."

"I'm going to be very disappointed if you don't have a PowerPoint presentation."

"Dammit!" Paris said. She blew her hair out of her face with an angry puff. "Dammit, I told Terrence that you'd be expecting it, I said that if one wants to be taken seriously then one must present oneself seriously --"

"Paris --"

"I told him that PowerPoint quantifiably raises the threshold of agreement by six percentage points, any idiot knows that, but no, he said, don't do it, he said, ordinary people find PowerPoint cold and off-putting in interpersonal relationships, he said, and like a fool I listened. I listened to what a man who wears a poncho and puka shells has to say about interpersonal relationships. When will I learn?"

Why I loved it: Because Paris considered making a Powerpoint presentation before proposing to Rory! What more could you possibly want from a fic? That is the most Paris thing to do ever, and Rory is extremely Rory, which is very impressive given that Alexis Bledel always seems slightly wooden to me in the role.

Um, there is also an exciting library research sequence where Rory looks up Boston marriages, which is a nineteenth-century phrase for two women who, let me quote Rory, “live together, and, and support each other, and are each other's primary emotional person, and devote themselves to each other - ”

Now, you may be wondering, “Why can’t Paris just ask Rory out like a normal person?” But I think the answer here is obvious: Paris? Behave like a normal person? Don’t be ridiculous!

( Les Mis and Rebecca )