OP Here: First of all I want to thank you so much for filling this prompt. I really didn't think that it would get a fill, being a Norrell/Arabella request, so I am tremendously grateful to you and absolutely over the moon about it.
Secondly... ... ... That was the actual sound of me sitting here speechless. I have just devoured this fic but now I'm going to have to go back and read it again - and again - and again - and maybe a dozen times more after that, at least. In a way I kind of feel like I should thank myself for this fic, because I'm pretty sure I must have come to my computer last night - sleepwalking - and written this myself. That's the only possible explanation for how you managed to get every single detail of this exactly as I wanted and imagined it. I AM SO HAPPY!
OMG A!A, allow me to extol your virtues here. This was incredibly hot. Prim, proper, fussy Norrell being reduced to a disheveled, panting, quivering mess of sexual desire is my biggest KINK of all, and you delivered on that front IN SPADES. But it is also so beautifully written and really heartfelt, and you gave such excellent insight into Arabella's and Jonathan's characters and relationship that I feel like I got an unexpected gift from this fic. It is full of wonderful moments and lines but I was really struck by this one:
There was genuine evil in the world and Jonathan, standing there desperate and sad with his heart full of love was not one of them.
Straight to my heart, direct hit. Beautiful. And of course, after what she has been through, Arabella would think of it like that. And I love her for it. Also, at the end, Norrell hiding under the covers and refusing to move? UTTER PERFECTION.
In short, this was everything - everything - that I wanted. Achingly erotic and funny and clever and sweet. I am in your debt, A!A. Thank you!
(And if you were ever bored and felt like maybe writing a short threesome sequel, I would fall all over myself in delirious happiness.)
*scoops up fic, holds it close to chest, runs out with it*
Re: Fill: Everything You Always Wanted (10/10)
Secondly... ... ... That was the actual sound of me sitting here speechless. I have just devoured this fic but now I'm going to have to go back and read it again - and again - and again - and maybe a dozen times more after that, at least. In a way I kind of feel like I should thank myself for this fic, because I'm pretty sure I must have come to my computer last night - sleepwalking - and written this myself. That's the only possible explanation for how you managed to get every single detail of this exactly as I wanted and imagined it. I AM SO HAPPY!
OMG A!A, allow me to extol your virtues here. This was incredibly hot. Prim, proper, fussy Norrell being reduced to a disheveled, panting, quivering mess of sexual desire is my biggest KINK of all, and you delivered on that front IN SPADES. But it is also so beautifully written and really heartfelt, and you gave such excellent insight into Arabella's and Jonathan's characters and relationship that I feel like I got an unexpected gift from this fic. It is full of wonderful moments and lines but I was really struck by this one:
There was genuine evil in the world and Jonathan, standing there desperate and sad with his heart full of love was not one of them.
Straight to my heart, direct hit. Beautiful. And of course, after what she has been through, Arabella would think of it like that. And I love her for it. Also, at the end, Norrell hiding under the covers and refusing to move? UTTER PERFECTION.
In short, this was everything - everything - that I wanted. Achingly erotic and funny and clever and sweet. I am in your debt, A!A. Thank you!
(And if you were ever bored and felt like maybe writing a short threesome sequel, I would fall all over myself in delirious happiness.)
*scoops up fic, holds it close to chest, runs out with it*