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natromanxoff · 1 year

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Roger Taylor live at the The Leadmill in Sheffield, UK - March 21, 1999

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“Arrived at the Leadmill at 12.30pm, only one other person there. Started queuing. Weather cold and showery, but it didn't dampen our spirits. Two more people came to join the person who was standing with us, and old acquaintances from October 1998's Shepherds Bush Gig were renewed. The band came early, or so it seemed, and then went again. Treana arrived, smiled sweetly and greeted us, and then disappeared inside. Roger came for the soundcheck at about 4.30pm, but the sneaky devil went in a small door around the back. A handful of fans were there to see him. Me? Well, if I'd been literally 5 seconds quicker running round that corner, I'd have managed to meet him. Better luck at Wolverhampton! A few hours, a few sing-songs and a few rain showers later, and the queue was very slowly getting a little longer. Come 7.00pm, it was of a moderate size and we all stood and formed an 'orderly' queue, ready to make our way in. In we run, straight to the front, and root ourselves to the spot at centre stage. Treana was truly amazing. Her voice seems to have really improved since Shepherd's Bush, she is far more confident and relaxed, and I think she was genuinely warmed by our reaction to her. Then she was gone, the lights went down, and an air of anticipation was abound in the theatre. The pounding drum intro to Rock You signified the start of a spectacular hour and half's entertainment. Roger looked stunning, as usual, in black, as usual! A word-perfect set, all apart from the "And I wish I wasn't here" line from Strange Frontier. We helped him with that one, at which point he smiled his appreciation. The band themselves were on top form, as was Mr Taylor, wowing us with his mere presence. For me, the highlight was Under Pressure, with Treana hitting those high notes superbly. What a force to be reckoned with in the future! Two encores, ending with a house-rocking Radio Ga Ga, and then all was over. I was lucky enough to grab one of the set lists off the stage, and clutched it close to me as I made my way out and back to my car. What passers-by thought of me I've no idea, as I was walking through the dark streets of Sheffield, arms full of t-shirts and programmes, with a silly grin on my face! Thanks to Roger and everyone involved, for a night to remember. It brought memories of Shepherds Bush rushing back (not that they've gone away too far, yet!), and has really set me up for Wolverhampton next week. See you there!” - Cathy aka Highfire

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#queen #queen band #roger taylor #roger meddows taylor #queen concerts #roger taylor concerts

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alicuntisms · 1 year

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share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in no particular order, then send this to 10 people (anon or not, your choice) 🎥🎬📺

buffy summers - btvs

scott mccall - teen wolf

sansa stark - asoiaf

edwina sharma - bridgerton

eowyn - lotr

veronica lodge - riverdale

sydney parker - sanditon

casey mcdonald - life with derek

richie gecko - fdtd: the series

cathy dollanganger marquette sheffield - fita

hi yes hello i miss you! how are you! why was it so hard to come up with ten characters????

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jonroxton · 2 years

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*ahem* DON’T GET SEX ADVICE FROM CATHY DOLLANGANGER FOXWORTH MARQUET SHEFFIELD

#mystuff #flowers in the attic #seeds of yesterday #the dollanganger series #cindy: *a perfectly normal person with perfectly normal attitudes towards s3x* hey momma why is all this wrong #cathy *trapped in an endless cycle of inc3stuous violence and abuse that ends with her falling in love with chris her bro* BC It ISSSSSsssss #poor cindy omg #she's really just normal and living her life but she's stuck in foxworth

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shit-talk-turner · 3 months

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What do you think about Cathy”s latest story? „I love you. Will you marry me“ the sign says…? Who is getting married?

// I think OP is referring to Katie's recent story, but Katie was likely just hanging out in Sheffield and taking a pic of a local landmark. Here's the backstory about the "I love you will u marry me" sign: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/aug/21/tragic-story-of-sheffield-park-hill-bridge

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filthbear · 11 months

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more rambling about the dollanganger series while i wait for lee bc i finished rereading seeds of yesterday and i’m also still mad about the movies. i don’t think i can finish them. i paid lifetime five dollars and i just don’t got it in me

for one thing you’re gonna sit there and make julien BRITISH? YOU CAN’T FIND A TWO-BIT ACTOR IN YOUR LINEUP WHO THINKS THEY CAN DO A RUSSIAN ACCENT? unforgiveable. i got to the date scene with him and cathy and i closed my ipad and went to such an angry sleep.

i also really can’t sit with the redemption of olivia— it does absolutrly nothing for the story and frankly the story doesn’t at all benefit anybody and it feels like a circle jerk— ultimatelt corinne still does her corinne thing god what does If There Be Thorns even look like oh man i hope they put her in old age makeup

anyway anyway seeds of yesterday. fuck. hello. finishing this post like two hours later but i had this theory that it ends and we’re meant to assume bart is repeating the cycle with cindy— i think i’m wrong but it just made me so angry about the ending AGAIN and also reminded me of my deep hate for christopher dollanganger foxworth sheffield i HATE his ass how are you gonna marry your sister only to be such a fucking ABSENT HUSBAND

#this is weeks old but honestly go off #incest mention tw #UNFORTUNATE

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whisperingshouting · 2 years

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Whispering Shouting Touching Passing is a project devised by the art, design, and media arts PhD community at Sheffield Hallam University. This sound piece features some of the students involved in the project briefly discussing their approaches, their research and events at S1 Artspace, including exhibitions and workshops.

Through events across the summer, creative practice researchers invite you to be participant, collaborator, co-creator, sharer, listener, or viewer.

The last two years have disrupted and questioned many conventional modes of art and design presentation, meaning that all producers, from individual practitioners to the largest of institutions, need to think imaginatively and experimentally about making audiences and encounters, with particular attention paid to physical and cultural barriers to access and participation that may be made without thinking. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The universal requirement of a PhD thesis is to ‘contribute to knowledge’ in an academic field. In reality, doctoral research has a life much wider than this, often weaving through publics, communities and localities, and multiple academic fields. This is particularly the case for the creative practice PhD with its combined worlds of artistic practice, art education, and diverse modes of writing. Whispering celebrates this and encourages us to think further about our range and quality of research transmission. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Our project uses S1 Artspace as a resource and base, employing processes that merge the studio space and online space, and include talks, face to face and online workshops, sound, discussions, live works, and exhibition.

All events are listed here, with design by Layla Gharib: whisperingshouting.tumblr.com/

Our first exhibition 'Projection as Material: When Space Becomes the Screen opened at S1 Artspace on 24, 25, 26 June.

The exhibition included works by Helen Blejerman, Marika Grasso, Jackie Leaver, Tim Machin, Max Munday, Roland van Dierendonck, Cathy Soreny and Aron Spall.

www.s1artspace.org/programme/when-…phd-art-design/

#phd #research #Sheffield #sheffieldhallam #collaboration #S1artspace #workshops #exhibitions #SoundCloud

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kaitlinj16 · 2 months

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The Dollanganger Saga

Characters' Full Names

🖤🖤🖤

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woolgallon6 · 2 years

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How to wear Ultraman Rings

On the off chance that straightforward obtaining and creation is important, Brannigan suggests Omi Woods (notwithstanding Noémie and Anna Sheffield). The IV Ring Stack, motivated by antiquated Egyptian wedding bands, allows you to pick the sort and request of examples for the fake stack, as well as the sort of metal, from 10K to 24K gold. Elliott says a "major pattern" in Ultraman Rings she's seeing is a "client who is more easygoing and doesn't need a customary precious stone wedding band — that is the very thing their mother has, so they are picking rather for a wedding ring instead of the wedding band out and out," she makes sense of. "Or on the other hand, going little and humble with a wedding band — it could be something she doesn't wear consistently — and making the wedding ring the greater arrangement and wearing it as an independent style," Elliott expresses, for example, Eva Fehren's The X ring, which takes up a ton of land on the finger yet has a fragile vibe. It's accessible in different metals and despite everything pavé precious stones; The Shorty is a smaller variant that can stack all the more effective if you would like to match it with a wedding band. "I was significantly impacted by an Italian colleague who had the most lovely Ultraman Rings — simply a band, no wedding band with it, the European way," Ewing says. "She let me know it was hand-tailored for her by a family-possessed gem dealer in Italy." This advanced 18K gold Alder III ring is the same in thickness and width, Ewing says, and Ceremony is great for "shortsighted, yet current plans, crisp informing and generally esteems — everything is dependably obtained and they recognize the love of assorted types," key variables for such a "significant and passionate buy." "Prounis does staggering antiquated Greek gold-enlivened Ultraman Rings," Fasel says, similar to this number one of hers. It highlights rich 22K yellow-gold and a stepping stool-like plan with cool negative space that is planned to confer "ripe fortune" on its wearer. For Ultraman Rings that main appear as though they have hundreds of years of history, "Cathy Waterman has been making antique-style rings since the mid-'90s," Bernstein says. "You generally know it's a Cathy Waterman ring; there is no feeling that it is a multiplication yet generally with motivation from an earlier time." Waterman adores an open wedding ring. "It advises me that a relationship is continuously developing, it's never gotten done and that I can constantly endeavor to make it more grounded," she says. Bernstein and Imram both rave about KATKIM for those searching for "a trying and moderate twist on exemplary forever groups and more extensive wedding rings with precious stone accents," that are "restless yet totally wearable," Bernstein says. Imram loves the Cerré Ring since it's "a particularly basic yet brilliant turn on the exemplary round-segmented band." For "something somewhat more startling," Gadi likes Deborah Pagani's 18K yellow-gold Honey rings, which have a ribbed and erupted shape that looks like a colony of bees. Her #1 form has a threesome of the flush set, emerald-cut precious stones. "I love its profundity and its rare like reasonableness," she says; however this plan is sold out, it very well may be specially made, cost upon demand. This 18K gold thick, round-edged band with a solace fit inside is one more #1 of Gadi's since "it's supersmooth and cool-looking, significant enough to remain all alone, yet in addition looks incredible stacked with different rings," she makes sense of. Raymond says it's great for circumstances you might not have any desire to wear a wedding band or a band with loads of stones, similar to "travel, working out, or hot tacky days when you can't bear any more adornments." "There's been a perceptible blast in rarely motivated rings and contemporary plan that highlights old-fashioned stones," Dukes expresses, exemplified by Erstwhile Jewelry, which "offers both one of a kind wedding bands and groups and their private mark plans set with classical jewels," she says. Plessner loves this striking band, cleared with platinum-set precious stones on one half and yellow-gold-set sapphires on the other a portion of: "It's wonderful, a tribute to craftsmanship, and somewhat surprising." Erica Weiner is one more great asset for a blend of in-house groups that seem to be old fashioned pieces, (for example, the Ziggurat Band, $760) as well as a varied curation of genuine one of a kind and classical pieces: Expect heaps of ill-humored, imagery rich, Victorian-period things, similar to a stout, around 1831 Georgian grieving ring with dazzling looked over-etching, or this $1,100 engraved belt ring, a famous nineteenth-century style meaning a timeless bond, as well as additional conventional choices, similar to this $1,400 platinum blade edge half-endlessness band.

#Ultraman Rings

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tellerdiving1 · 2 years

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How to wear Ultraman Rings

#Ultraman Rings

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nadjaofstatenisland · 2 years

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Look I obviously took this whole series with a grain of salt and knew they had to change some stuff but making Bart and Cindy fall in love???? Why?????

#like... was chris' death not supposed to break the cycle #i am grossed out and this is literally a series about inc*st #flowers in the attic #the dollanganger series #cathy dollanganger #bart foxworth #cindy sheffield

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nocturnalxsociety · 4 years

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if there be thorns is unrealistic because the 13 year old never once complained that his middle name was janus

#flowers in the attic #if there be thorns #vc andrews #jory sheffield #cathy dollanganger

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alicuntisms · 1 year

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Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, do not be shy and share anyway.

tagged by @justatinycollector and @bad-surprise <333

He comes to her that night. | i’ll slither from eden back home to her - olivia/malcolm foxworth, flowers in the attic

The chair opposite of Halbrand scraping back loudly is the only warning he gets before Galadriel Noldor drops herself across from him. | cause i’m mistaking honey for the bees - haladriel, rings of power

It rains the morning of Kate’s wedding. | i could be your heron blue sky (wrap my in celadon & gold) - kanthony, bridgerton

It’s too hot to cuddle and the a/c is on the fritz. | i’m almost me again - chris/cathy sheffield, flowers in the attic

Charlotte tries to smile at the ballroom, tries to present the picture of someone who is happy to be there. | been dreaming that you’ll love me in the morning - sidlotte, sanditon

“It hurts me, Arthur,” Georgiana says quietly, laying a hand on his forearm. | come on, skinny love, what happened here? - georgiana/arthur, sanditon

Laurie fully intends on meeting Amy at her hotel to escort her to the New Years Eve ball but not long after parting ways with her in the park he hears of her courtship with Frad Vaughn. | and i know that it’s delicate - amy/laurie, little women (2019)

He’s not bloody fast enough. | overcome in this war of hearts - spuffy, btvs

Sometimes he dreams of her. | funny how a blessing feels just like a curse | joe/marie doucett, oldboy (2013)

Her mother insists that they move to her hometown after everything goes to shit in New York. | i used to obsess over living (now i only obsess over you) - jeronica, riverdale

and as usual i am too lazy to tag anyone else lol.

#do i even bother tagging all the ships?#ugh again too lazy #linette writes

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cdyssey · 3 years

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Regret

Summary: When Fran doesn't come down to breakfast after spraining her ankle, the whole house is concerned for her—especially Niles and Mr. Sheffield. Set after "An Affair to Dismember."

A/N: Okay, so I've binge re-watched nearly four seasons of The Nanny in four days, and had to get at least one fic out of my system, lmao.

Fran Drescher's acting in "An Affair to Dismember" when she suddenly broke while talking to Maxwell made me sensitive. ;-;

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Breakfast is a remarkably boring affair without Miss Fine bursting through the door, raising her arms in a floral robe, and proclaiming, with signature adenoidal stylings, “Good moooorning, everyone!”

The clink of silverware, the scraping of ceramic plates, the ruffling sound of Mr. Sheffield anxiously attacking the New York Times like a new Andrew Lloyd Webber play has just dropped—all of it is so terribly drab that Niles spends the first fifteen minutes of her pronounced absence coughing loudly in the hopes that his employer will pick up the hint to do something about it.

“Oh, do go get a bloody cough drop, old man,” he finally snaps, smacking his newspaper down on the table. “You’re driving me mad.”

“Sorry, sir,” Niles arches a brow as he refills Mr. Sheffield’s coffee mug. “I have asthma.”

He turns away to replace the coffee pot on the side table.

“And half a mind to kick your tetchy derrière,” he mutters under his breath.

“What was that, Niles?”

“Nothing, sir! Just saying thank you for your attentive care.”

“Dad,” Master Brighton thankfully interrupts, “where’s Fran, and what have you done to make her mad this time?”

Niles immediately turns around again in time to see his boss’s shoulders straighten in that way they often do when he’s indignant.

Or guilty.

Or some mixture of them both.

“I beg your pardon, Brighton,” he replies stiffly. “Why do you immediately assume I’m the problem here?”

“Process of elimination,” Brighton shrugs. “Fran’s not mad at me, Maggie, or Grace, and Niles is one of her closest friends.”

“You’re so astute, Master Brighton,” Niles smiles wryly as he moves to the left to get a better view of Mr. Sheffield’s face. The vein in his temple is beginning to throb, which is always a good time.

“She hasn’t dated anyone recently,” Miss Margaret pipes up.

“And she’s always fighting with her ma,” Miss Grace adds, “but that's never kept her from Belgian waffles before.”

“So, Dad,” Brighton grins, patting his father once on the back, “unless our math is wrong, that leaves you.”

“Goodness me,” Mr. Sheffield mutters, angrily stabbing a piece of link sausage with his fork. “I didn’t know I was in the presence of the lost Hardy Boy.”

“So you did do something!” Margaret exclaims.

“No! I bloody well did not, Nancy Drew. For your information, Miss Fine accidentally hurt her ankle clubbing last night with Val. I don’t think it’s broken, but I’ve called a doctor to come by just to check.”

“Tsk, tsk. And you didn’t offer to pick her up Cinderella-style and swoop her downstairs so she wouldn’t miss breakfast?” Niles asks chidingly, only to be greeted with a nasty glare.

“Yes, I did offer to bring her down to breakfast as a matter of fact... but Miss Fine seemed strangely subdued when I spoke to her through the door... I didn’t know what to make of it to tell you the truth...”

Mr. Sheffield’s brow contracts as he searches Niles’s face for an answer, and Niles stares back just as studiously, observing the profound concern in his employer’s dark eyes.

The gentleness.

The romance.

The stunningly oblivious care.

Niles sighs fondly.

Unlike Miss Babcock, he’s never had the heart to kick poor puppies when they’re down.

“I’ll bring her Advil and a fresh ice pack,” he promises. “Perhaps some pain relief will help her to regain her spirit.”

“I hope so,” Mr. Sheffield replies, self-consciously turning to his plate again, the tips of his ears rather pink. “I hate when Miss Fine isn’t feeling well.”

“Here, here,” the whole table concurs.

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Twenty minutes later, Niles is at Miss Fine’s door with a silver tray laden with all the essentials: painkillers, an ice pack, a mug of coffee (milk instead of cream and extra sugar), and a copy of the new edition of Gloss. He lightly taps on her door with the side of his loafer.

“Miss Fine, can I come in?”

“No,” comes an immediate and sharp reply. “I’m not dressed!”

“How discouraging,” Niles sighs smilingly. “What ever shall I do?”

“Suff’a, and at least give me a minute to find a brassiere.”

“Oh, we’ll be here all day then.”

He hears a strange thud, a collection of evaluations (“dirty, dirty, slutty, Maggie’s, dirty”), and an assortment of Yiddish curse words he now vaguely recognizes from being friends with Miss Fine for nearly four years now. And then finally—

“Come in, Jeeves, but shut the door behind ya ‘cuz I haven’t applied a morning layer of lipstick yet.”

Niles elbows the knob and pushes with his shoulder until the door lights open to a peculiar sight. Far from being neat, Miss Fine’s room looks like Macy’s after its annual Black Friday sale with clothes strewn everywhere—from the dressers to the wardrobes to the floor. An empty suitcase is lying on the bed next to Miss Fine, who is sitting in bed wearing an oversized t-shirt, her injured ankle propped up on a pillow. Niles can tell, even from the doorway, that it’s red and swollen, but to his satisfaction and relief, it doesn’t appear to be broken.

“Welcome to the jungle,” Miss Fine mutters when she notices his incredulous gaze. “We got all the animals out t’day.”

“I can see that,” Niles replies, placing his tray on her bedside table and shutting the door. With his usual efficiency, he then walks back over, retrieves the ice pack, and gently places it on the affected area, frowning when she flinches.

“Mr. Sheffield said that the doctor was coming at ten,” he says as he gently lowers himself onto the bed, clasping his hands primly on top of his lap.

“Mm,” Fran grunts noncommittally, grabbing the two Advil pills and knocking them back with a swig of coffee.

“What? You’re not curious as to whether or not said doctor in question is single, Jewish, and living in a Manhattan penthouse? Miss Fine”—Niles reaches over and places the back of his hand on Fran’s head—“do you have a fever?”

“Oh, Niles,” she swats his hand away, “I’m not in the mood.”

“It’s been awhile since I’ve heard that one.”

“Niles!”

“Sorry, Miss Fine,” he withdraws his hand with a laugh. “You know I have to warm up before Miss Babcock arrives.”

“Glad to assist,” Fran quips, taking another sip of coffee, and it’s only as she closes her eyes to savor the taste, that he notices there are lines beneath her eyes from what seems to have been a sleepless night.

The smile sinks from his face.

“You know,” he says quietly, “in all of our acquaintance, I’ve never known of you to injure yourself while dancing.”

Fran opens her eyes only to immediately glance away, tapping her long nails against her mug.

“Val tripped me up when she thought she saw Elton John,” she shrugs dully. “Turns out it was just a really lifelike poster of him behind the bar...”

“I see,” Niles returns, raising a brow. “It was nice of Miss Toriello to forgo her weekend trip with her parents to come back and… boogie woogie oogie with you.”

“Dammit,” she pouts, scrunching her nose. “I didn’t think I’d told you that.”

“You didn’t. I overheard you and Miss Toriello gabbing on the phone about it yesterday morning.”

Fran can’t seem to help herself; she smiles crookedly, even as she shakes her head.

“I dunno who’s more absorbent sometimes—you or the dish sponge.”

He smiles back at her, patting her uninjured leg gently.

“Me, naturally."

"I can believe it, Chatty Cathy," she sighs.

"Now tell me, Miss Fine"—he regains his solemnity quickly, unwilling to let her deflect with jokes—"why does your room look like a tornado went through Loehmann’s?”

Her dark eyes immediately glance around the messy room, as though looking for an excuse and failing to find one.

It’s only now that Niles is sitting down, taking everything in, that he notices that most of the articles strewn about are her favorite clothing items, from her holographic Versace dress to the black tube top that Mr. Sheffield can’t pry his eyes away from every time she wears it.

“I almost did a very stupid thing, Niles,” she half-whispers, looking down into her coffee cup, her fingers tensed and shivering around the handle. “And the thing is, maybe it wasn’t really all that stupid? Maybe it was the smartest thing I could of done in a lifetime of doin’ so many stupid things.”

She pauses briefly before sardonically adding, “People included.”

Though Niles doesn’t have enough dots to connect the full picture, he has what he needs in the way of evidence to get the basic gist: Nigel being in town, the two of them going out, Nigel leaving town, the suitcase, the swollen ankle, and Miss Fine's uncharacteristic melancholy, smeared across her face so sharply that it may as well be lipstick.

He swallows thickly, suddenly grasping how close that they had all been to losing Fran forever.

“Well,” he says, making an effort to hitch an oblivious smile on his face, “isn’t it your mother who says that everything happens for a reason? It seems as though you’re right where you belong.”

“Yeah,” she snorts indelicately. “Twenty-nine multiple times over, single, and livin’ in a mansion with a man who won’t even commit to his meal orders at restaurants, much less his very available and desperate nanny.”

“Beautiful, young, and living in a mansion with three children who love you, a butler who’d be lost without you, and a man who won’t commit to his tie choices either but still cares for you deeply all the same,” Niles corrects her softly. “He was very worried for you when you didn’t come down to breakfast this morning. He didn’t even do the crossword on the Times.”

“Gee,” she rolls her eyes playfully, “how romantic.”

“Very,” Niles grins, “a modern day Romeo—emotional hangups and all.”

With that, he pats Fran again and stands up; he has no doubt that Mr. Sheffield will be calling for him soon to interrogate him as to Miss Fine’s wellbeing.

Maybe he can even get C.C. on speaker phone to rub it in her face.

“Y’know, Niles,” Fran smiles at him fondly, “if this whole Mr. Sheffield thing doesn’t work out, we should elope in Vegas in ten yea's.”

“Only if you wear this little number,” he says, bending down and picking up a black cocktail dress from the floor, folding it neatly over his arm.

“You wish you could be so lucky.”

“If we’re going to be in Vegas, anything can happen, I suppose.”

After he retrieves the silver tray from the bedside table, he bends down and kisses Miss Fine lightly on the head, his heart hurting when he notices the way that she closes her eyes beneath the gentle touch—young and vulnerable and terribly hurt by something he can’t quite fix with a well-timed witticism.

“Get some rest, Miss Fine," her murmurs against her head. "I'll check on you a bit."

“Thanks, hubby."

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Scarcely ten minutes later, he’s down in Mr. Sheffield’s office as per usual, offering the producer a fresh cup of tea even though he had already drunk his traditional two cups at breakfast.

He insisted, though, on a third, for some excuse he couldn’t quite come up with.

And instead of coming up with an excuse, he immediately asked for all the particulars of Miss Fine’s health.

Predictable chump.

“Thanks, old boy,” Mr. Sheffield frowns, returning to his crossword, tapping the end of his pen arrhythmically against the paper. “Let me know when the doctor for Miss Fine arrives. I want to be there when he checks her over.”

“Ooh la-la-la,” Niles hums, dropping a sugar cube into the tea with a zesty plop.

Mr. Sheffield places his pen down on the desk angrily.

“Not like that… I just want to ensure she’s going to be well… you know, for the children’s sake.”

“Yes,” he sighs theatrically. “How will the children ever be able to bear their nanny having a twisted ankle?”

“Oh, shut up,” Mr. Sheffield snaps. “I don’t pay you to be sarcastic.”

“No, sir, you pay me to help you with the crossword when you’re missing three-across,” Niles smirks knowingly when he glances down at the incomplete puzzle. “What’s the hint?”

Mr. Sheffield adjusts his wire-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose before looking down again.

“A word that means feeling bad for not doing something that you should have done all along. Disappointment. A sense of shame.”

Niles straightens up with a long-suffering shake of his head.

“Oh, sir, do I really have to spell it out for you?”

#the nanny #fran fine #niles the butler #maxwell sheffield #maggie writes

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