rosemary, for remembrance
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“What?” Downey says again, flicking him lightly between the eyes. Immediately, his previous resolution is undermined, but that’s Downey for you. Abrasive in both senses. “Focus, dog-botherer. You’ve been drinking.”
He knows that. That’s not the problem. The problem is that he’s not drunk enough. Every time he closes his eyes, Keel’s face swims before him, and the bitter stem of a lilac masks the taste of whatever-it-is he’s been drinking. He puts all this to Downey: “Not enough. Not yet.”
Words: 1375, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
- Rating: Not Rated
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Characters: Lord Downey (Discworld), Havelock Vetinari
- Relationships: Lord Downey/Havelock Vetinari, ish. they still dont like each other bless them
- Additional Tags: Post-Book: Night Watch (Discworld), Alternate Universe, simply because if this had happened in the main timeline they both wouldve been significantly weirder about each other, or at least weirder in a different way. and probably worse, alternative title: remember being a teenager and getting drunk for the first time? yeah, guild era, this was actually a scene from a longer vetinari fic ive been working on but it didnt quite fit, very much in the genre of wildly improbable but i thought itd be fun