#whisky cavalier

[coldstormyday]

Merilwen: I'm sorry that I have to tell you this Prudence... but you do have a heart and the capacity to feel.

Prudence: You take that back!

#oxventure #incorrect oxventure quotes #merilwen dnd #prudence dnd #Source: Whisky Cavalier

[thedissenters]

The Beatles at Holdsworth House in Halifax, England | 10 October 1964

"They had been playing at the Gaumont Theatre in Bradford and they needed a place to stay," recalls Gail, who was 14 at the time – and very much a fan. "My father told me a couple of days before they arrived that they were coming and I think it was probably the hardest secret I have ever had to keep. I didn’t tell anyone though, not a soul and I remember when it had all happened and I went back to school, hardly anyone was talking to me," she laughs.

The night in question was Friday, October 9, 1964 – John Lennon’s 24th birthday – and Gail recalls how it was around 11pm when the four Liverpool lads arrived after a bit of a diversion and the help of a police escort to keep their destination a secret – a plan which worked.

"They chatted to guests in the bar when they arrived, then had dinner in a private room upstairs. We still have a signed copy of the menu and their original bills, which show a rather rich selection of trout, turtle soup, cold duckling and steak tartare. I love the fact that our French Maitre D’ at the time referred to them as 'Beetles'!" Including the chauffeur’s dinner, the entire bill came to £17 6s (£17.30) – more than a week’s wages at the time.

The bar bill, including whiskies, stouts and pints of Whitbread, came to £2 15s (£2.75). Paul, George, Ringo and Brian Epstein drank in the Long Bar until the early hours along with John who, despite his toothache, was still the life and soul of the party, told endless jokes and did a brilliant imitation of a pompous Yorkshire mill owner – he was a great mimic.

Because the business was just a country club and not a hotel, the Pearsons had to find beds for their visitors. "They actually ended up using ours. Can you imagine that?" says Gail. "John and Ringo slept in what was mine and my sister’s room and Paul and George slept in my parents' bedroom. They borrowed twin beds especially.

"I remember we had set up for them to have breakfast the following morning and they didn’t come down. I was walking up and down the corridor waiting. Eventually my mother grabbed me by the hand, knocked on the bedroom door where Paul and George were sleeping and thrust me inside. 'My daughter has been waiting all morning to see you' she said and left me there. I don’t know how she dared." Gail adds that George offered her a cigarette "which I refused" and asked if the old house was haunted. We'd been to Ibiza on holiday and I was chatting to Paul about that.

Kim, just eight at the time, admits the visit was "a little over my head". "I was very shy and remember not wanting to meet them so I hid in the ladies' cloakroom under a dressing table. All of a sudden this hand came through the curtains, a hand with rings on practically every finger. It was Ringo and he just said 'come out and meet the lads'."

The girls had their photos taken each sitting on McCartney’s knee. "Kim’s came out but unfortunately mine didn’t," says Gail.

Because it had been Lennon’s birthday the girls gave him a Cavalier Country Club tie. "I don’t know if he ever wore it but he did remember the visit because he sent us a copy of his book In His Own Write".

John And Ringo Slept In My Bed The Yorkshire Post | 27 June 2011

#john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #the beatles #beatlemania #articles #england #october #1964 #***

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.1

1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León. 1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. 1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis. 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. 1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities. 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War. 1676 – Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79). 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. 1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, drowned on his eighth attempt. 1779 – The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins. 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States. 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States. 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom. 1813 – Capture of USS Chesapeake. 1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite. 1831 – James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole. 1849 – Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established. 1854 – Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland. 1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua. 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published. 1857 – The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought. 1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory. 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns. 1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War. 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. 1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. 1919 – Prohibition comes into force in Finland. 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires. 1930 – The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives. 1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft. 1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. 1941 – The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes. 1943 – BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed. 1950 – The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia. 1950 – The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America. 1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. 1961 – The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history. 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. 1964 – Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President. 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. 1975 – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others. 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed. 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 1988 – European Central Bank is founded in Brussels. 1988 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect. 1990 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. 1994 – Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations. 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother. 2001 – Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. 2004 – Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. 2008 – A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019. 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. 2011 – Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights. 2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

#Events

[johnnyccdc]

Tomorrow’s the day y’all! Tickets are all sold out for this years @vabourboninvitational at the @thecavaliervb ! So tomorrow I look forward to seeing everyone who found their way in and be sure to bring your CCs cause @catoctincreek is selling bottles baby and I held back on some @gwar @ragnarokrye to share with y’all and brought some of that harder to find Roundstone Rye Cask Proof Edition as well! Here’s to a great Saturday in Virginia Beach! #CatoctinCreek #TheVirginiaRyeWhisky #Distillery #Rye #Gin #Brandy #Virginia #Purcellville #Spirits #Cocktails #Restaurants #Bars #Hotels #vbbourboninvitational #BourbonInvitational #GWAR #RagnarokRye #CraftSpirits #Alcohol #VaSpirits #VA #VisitVirginiaBeach #CCDCVA #Booze #Drinks #Drinking #Food #DrinkRyeAndProsper #SPOCK #Whisky 🥃 (at Cavalier Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cki_kicuNPb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#catoctincreek #thevirginiaryewhisky #distillery #rye #gin #brandy #virginia #purcellville #spirits #cocktails #restaurants #bars #hotels #vbbourboninvitational #bourboninvitational #gwar #ragnarokrye #craftspirits #alcohol #vaspirits #va #visitvirginiabeach #ccdcva #booze #drinks #drinking #food #drinkryeandprosper #spock #whisky

[blogger360ncislarules]

Running Save our Shows campaigns ARE NOT foolish! some idiots may think they’re stupid, but here’s the thing, if a show you loved so much and ended on a cliffhanger makes you wish it would be picked up some where, you’re not stupid for wishing it. and wanting to do something about it is not stupid either.

Remember the great campaigns from 10 to 20 years ago when people would mail letters to the network (or in Jericho’s case, mail a lot of nuts)? Well, now we have Twitter and ways to make online petitions. Remember Timeless? it’s fandom got the show a 2nd season and a Christmas movie!!

The greatest Save our Show campaign I’ve ever seen is the #SaveShadowhunters campaign. it’s truly the greatest inspiration of a worldwide fandom raising money and coming together for a good cause. (I’m talking raising money for GLAAD, flying a message over Netflix’s studio, Billboards in Time Square, lots of things!) (this website I check frequently, CarterMatt? it was the campaign’s biggest supporter! and the fandom thanked it in a sweet way.)

I still believe that universe can one day come back. I also still think Scorpion and The Kids are Alright (it’s showrunner is right for being mad at ABC, Bless this Crap should never have been renewed over it.) could one day come back. I also still think Whiskey Cavalier could one day come back.

As we approach Upfronts and wondering if we have to start Save our Shows campaigns for great shows that deserve to come back, remember these great tibits of advice: if you feel like you have to start a petition for a show in danger, go ahead! if you feel like getting mad at a network, go ahead! if they make a beyond stupid decision regarding the show you love, call them out on it!

Remember: it is NEVER over, until the showrunner says it is. until then, sign petitions, raise money, make billboards, fly a message over a network studio (if you can do any of this.). There’s plenty of ways to make your voices heard now. (and if any one tells you you are stupid, THEY are the stupid ones! Remember the Veronica Mars movie and it’s revival? Remember Brooklyn 9-9??)

#SaveOurShows2020

#save our shows #abc #nbc #cbs #scorpion #whiskey cavalier #whisky cavalier #the kids are alright #the cw #zoey's extraordinary playlist #timeless #shadowhunters #veronica mars

[flotillakrys]

#Leverage #mulitifandom #The Rook #Animal Kingdom #American Gods #Agents of Shield #The OA #Brooklyn 99 #Cloak and Dagger #Timeless #Dark Angel #Nikita #La Femme Nikita #Luther #Stargate SG1 #Once Upon A Time #Sense8 #The Mentalist #Titans #Whisky Cavalier #Wynonna Earp #The Punisher #Veronica Mars #Under the Dome #Runnaways #Buffy the Vampire Slayer #Dollhouse #Good Behavior

[radiomashupok]

7 de enero de 1982

Hace 38 años nacía la bella actriz británico-estadounidense Lauren Cohan Feliz Cumpleaños!!

#Lauren Cohan #Maggie Green #Whisky Cavalier #The Walking Dead #TWD #Series #Cine #Movies #Actress #Radio #Radio Mashup #Birthday

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Someone who watches Whisky Cavalier should message me and talk about it with me because I don’t know anyone who watches it and it’s like.. my favorite new show. 

#whisky cavalier #scott foley #lauren cohan

[multiprises]

That’s my gun, by the way.

Whiskey Cavalier, 1.01

#whisky cavalier

[cassandrapentayaaaaas]

I have Hopes for Whisky Cavalier, none of which are likely to come true.

#whisky cavalier #it’s a p good show so far you guys

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[0-inmyveins]

#greys anatomy #let's kill ward's wife #scott foley gif #scandal abc #jake ballard #henry burton gif #scott foley #jake ballard gif #Whisky Cavalier #noel crane #felicity #hank wiggen #bob brown #sean kelly #patrick devins #henry goodwin #jeffrey macdonald #final vision #will chase #scott foley gifs

[incorrectagsquotes]

Daisy: I’m sorry to tell you this but you have a heart, and capacity to feel.

Rilke: You take that back.

#the fury #daisy brien #rilke bastion #source: whisky cavalier #incorrect quotes

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.1

1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León. 1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.[citation needed] 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. 1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis. 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. 1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities. 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War. 1676 – Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79). 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. 1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, drowned on his eighth attempt. 1779 – The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins. 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States. 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States. 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom. 1813 – Capture of USS Chesapeake. 1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite. 1831 – James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole. 1849 – Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established. 1854 – Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland. 1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua. 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published. 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought. 1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory. 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns. 1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War. 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. 1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. 1919 – Prohibition comes into force in Finland. 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires. 1930 – The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives. 1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft. 1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. 1941 – The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes. 1943 – BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed. 1950 – The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith: "The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." A response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia. 1950 – The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America. 1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. 1961 – The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history. 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. 1964 – Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta (1897 – 22 August 1978) as its first President (1964 to 1978). 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. 1975 – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others. 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed. 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 1988 – European Central Bank is founded in Brussels. 1988 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect. 1990 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. 1994 – Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations. 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother. 2001 – Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. 2004 – Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record. 2008 – A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019. 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. 2011 – Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights. 2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

#Events

[oldshrewsburyian]

If you're still doing the "I wish you'd write a story where", then how about Jonathan itching to smack his brother-in-law upside the head (/smacking him upside the head)? Because:

even though I've read the term "himbo" bandied about with regards to Rick O'Connell, the man is actually anything but dumb for all that he occasionally does dumb things (and who doesn't) and is too smart to fall into that category;

the two of them are disasters in their own right but I am very curious as to what sort of situation would justify a dope slap from Jonathan, of all people (who sometimes makes choices of questionable wisdom and tends to respect such choices in other people)

Anyway, I wonder if there was a context that would make this in-character. And if you think there is, I'd love to see the result!

The veil of anonymity is, I suspect, translucent. O'Connell has plenty of physical courage and practical ability, yes, but the man does also treat screaming as a tactic of choice. Bless him, I do think there's at least a textual case to be made; but in any case, he's great. Anyway! Please enjoy this ficlet/one-shot. [And for those of you who asked for Endeavour things, I'm working on it; that's just a hard fandom imho.] Incidentally, I know that the term 'stag night' was linked to male homosociality but not yet exclusively to pre-wedding festivities in the first third of the 20th century, but since this fandom also involves, you know, a cursed mummy, I trust to be given a pass for a slight anachronism.

*

It was Jonathan who insisted on the stag night. The wedding was to be a small affair, with Jonathan standing up as best man and Dr. Bey as the second witness.

“Well, really, Evie,” her brother said, “if I’m standing up with you, that makes me the maid of honor, though I agree that it does seem a ridiculous title especially as you’ve been living in sin — ow!”

Evie, looking exceptionally prim and severe, held her leather-bound notebook judiciously in front of her, as though weighing the likelihood of needing to hit him again. “We haven’t, as a matter of fact,” she informed him, “and if you aren’t careful — ”

“Could have fooled me,” grumbled Jonathan, “the way you can’t keep your hands off — all right, all right, point taken.” The notebook was returned to the desk.

“If you aren’t careful,” Evie concluded, with some emphasis, “I’ll make you wear a fascinator.”

Jonathan still grumbled to anyone within hearing distance, including the museum skeletons, that it seemed a ridiculous degree of fuss and formality after weeks spent in adjacent bedrolls, especially in a city where scarcely anyone knew them and fewer cared to. But Evie, to his surprise, remained adamant that marriage would not only preserve her already-dubious respectability in the eyes of the Bembridge Scholars, but would be romantic, as well. So Jonathan, after a conspiratorial eye-roll at his favorite skeleton, demanded the privilege of giving his prospective brother-in-law a stag night.

In practice, this meant a carefully chosen bar: not so chic that the waiters would resent them, not so disreputable that they might be recognized. The toast for the first whisky was luck and long life; that for the second, “May you never meet a mummy outside a sarcophagus.”

“Evie,” said Jonathan, raising his third glass, “and may you both be very happy. I mean that, mind you,” he added, after the first sip, “though of course you may choose to regard it as a threat. Happiness of kid sister very important to me, though this may be belied by a generally wanton and cavalier attitude.”

The American gave his companion a one-cornered smile. “I know it is.”

“Oh, cheer up,” said Jonathan, “I’m not actually menacing you with pistols at dawn. For one thing, Evie’s perfectly capable of looking after herself. And for another, O’Connell, you strike me as a decent chap. There! And since neither of us is yet sloshed, you ought to believe me.”

“What I can’t believe,” said O’Connell slowly, “is how easy it’s been.”

Jonathan cocked an eyebrow. “Easy?” A response was not forthcoming. “Would that be referring to the… to the Nile steamer that was set on fire, or the cursed city with its damned booby traps, or the episode where we flew a plane through a sandstorm, or the absolutely — ” he hunted in vain for adequate profanity — “biblical plagues? Exactly which bit,” concluded Jonathan, in triumphant peroration, “are you qualifying as easy, old son?”

“Oh,” said O’Connell. His grin was more genuine, this time. “I wasn’t talking about that. I mean: my regiment gets cornered. I manage not to die, pick up a trinket that turns out to be a key to something. You pick my pocket.”

“Well…”

O’Connell held up one square hand. “Bygones. You pick my pocket, you and your crazy sister get me out of prison, we go to the desert because she turns out to be some kind of expert on antiquities, we kill a cursed mummy — and all the rest of it, you’re right — and then…”

This time, Jonathan raised both eyebrows. “As I recall, she all but propositioned you in front of half of Cairo, and you eventually saw your way to kissing her and riding off into the sunset. Cue wedding bells and loud cheers.”

“Well, that’s just it. Why?”

Jonathan put down his tumbler of whisky, leaned across the table, and cuffed his prospective brother-in-law smartly at the base of his skull.

“Hey,” said O’Connell, without animus.

“That,” Jonathan informed him, “is the penalty for being an absolutely insufferable ass. You usually aren’t,” he added, with scrupulous fairness. “But my baby sister happens to be in love with you, and if you can’t see that, then I’m afraid that though you may not be an ass, you must be an idiot.”

O’Connell shivered, and sat up straighter in his chair. “I told her in the desert that I couldn’t figure her out. And damn it, I think that’s still true. It’s just… I also can’t imagine not wanting to know everything about her.”

“There you are, then.”

“You can’t just say that as though it explains everything! I know I’m in love with her!” O’Connell had raised his voice, and several patrons at neighboring tables turned to smirk indulgently. “She’s whip-smart, and kind, and cultured, and… and just about unbelievably beautiful.”

“Steady on.”

“I know that,” continued O’Connell. “What I can’t figure is why she didn’t laugh or — or look at me pityingly when I was crazy enough to ask her to marry me in the first place. She treated it as though it was natural!”

“Ah,” said Jonathan profoundly, “yes. Evie does have a habit of doing that with the most astonishing propositions. The existence of cursed cities. Marriage. You don’t know what you’ve let yourself in for, old son.”

“But I want to be let in for it! That’s just it! I’ll hitch my wagon to hers — yes I know it’s a weird expression, let me finish — and damn the consequences, but I don’t think she can know what she’s doing.”

At that, to his distressed interlocutor’s surprise, Jonathan laughed. “Rick — may I call you Rick? Thank you, it’ll make things much easier for the next fifty years of our lives — Rick, if you only knew how many people have said that about Evie and lived to know their mistake.”

“Have they?”

“They have.”

“As long as you don’t think she’s making one. A mistake, that is.”

“Perish the thought. Why isn’t there any more whisky? Hi, waiter — yes, two more of the same, and bring the bottle. Now,” said Jonathan, settling himself comfortably, “I shall indulge in the honorable tradition of the stag night, and tell you hair-raising stories about your prospective partner in life. I think the first person to underestimate Evie must have been the nursery-maid…”

The whiskies came. Jonathan talked. Years later, he would recall the night — however hazily — as the first time he heard his brother-in-law laugh.

[On AO3 here.]

#the mummy 1999 #asks and answers #fanfic

[elnaras-posts]

Confusion.

Il est trois heures du matin et je repense à toi. L'écriture absurde de ces textes me font rire et pleurer en même temps. Pourquoi les ruptures nous font autant de mal ? Même si je considère plutôt notre séparation comme une déception. Pourquoi est-ce que l'on s'est fait si mal ? C'est peut-être une question de vulnérabilité humaine, vouloir se sentir vivant par la tristesse, pour pouvoir avaler des verres d'alcool jusqu'à vomir nos tripes, pour oublier toute cette comédie. J'ai bu ce soir, un fond de verre de whisky que mon père gardait et n'avait jamais ouvert. Il attendait peut-être une occasion pour le faire, je me suis dite qu'un chagrin d'amour en était une excellente. J'ai bu et dansé nue dans la noirceur qui peignait mon vide. La musique admirant la nuit et perturbant son calme frénétique, les yeux fermés et le bassin ondulant dans les ombres, j'ai dansé comme si je ne pouvais voir que toi. Que seul toi pouvait regarder me trémousser ainsi. J'ai dansé pour te séduire, pour te détruire, pour te toucher, pour te troubler, pour te rendre ivre, pour t'anéantir. J'ai dansé comme une putain pour me faire baiser, comme une dame raffinée, comme une femme mariée, comme une solitaire aux lèvres abusées et au coeur trompé, comme dans un bal auquel je n'aurais pas de cavalier. J'ai dansé sous ton regard défiant, envoûté puis répugné. J'ai dansé pour me perdre dans mes pensées, pour m'arrêter pour recommencer, pour trébucher et tomber, pour sombrer et me tuer. Sans attendre qu'une main vienne me rattraper dans ma chute, sans espoir de mener une lutte en vain. Un verre à la main, je chanterai ton nom aux étoiles, pour qu'elles te méprisent, à leur tour, de m'avoir rendue si éperdue, de m'avoir perdue dans des tourments embarrassants, de m'avoir dégoûtée d'un amour pourtant évident.

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