Led Home / by letsgogetlost (G)
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letsgogetlost
Fandom: Downton Abbey
Pairing: Edward (the blind officer from the cottage hospital)/Thomas
Genre: Friendship to Romance
Length: Medium (Words: 19,546 and counting)
Summary:
When Thomas Barrow gives into a weakness, a need to say goodbye, a great deal changes, starting with the saving of a life.
Eventual Thomas/Edward. More tags and summary and such to be added as the story progresses.
Review:
This is a very, very slow friendship-to-romance fic. It's almost painfully slow, but at least its an improvement on the show. (I really wish canon wasn't stuck on the Reality is Unrealistic version of LGBT history. We're very nearly as far as Isherwood's Berlin by Season 3 and London wasn't so far removed. LGBT history is fascinating [most subaltern history is, imo] and sure it's great when shows like this include gay characters, but do they have to act like nothing happened in LGBT history until Stonewall?)
Anyway, pardon my geeky rant and I'll get back on topic. This story splits off from canon because Thomas saves Edward from his suicide attempt (so it's an AU, from Season 2, Episode 2). I think this is a great fic. Thomas stays fairly in character, though slightly less unlikable - of course, in this fic, we're only seeing the parts of his life that make him happy rather than his interactions with the other staff at Downton, so I think that's part of the reason for the difference. There's not much of Edward to build from in canon, but I like the character this author has written. He's a canon disabled character and this story deals with that really well without that being all that he is. There's 8 chapters so far and just one more promised and I'm eagerly awaiting it (and hoping for a bit of fluff since this is such a slow-build fic).
Led Home (on AO3)
Author:
Fandom: Downton Abbey
Pairing: Edward (the blind officer from the cottage hospital)/Thomas
Genre: Friendship to Romance
Length: Medium (Words: 19,546 and counting)
Summary:
When Thomas Barrow gives into a weakness, a need to say goodbye, a great deal changes, starting with the saving of a life.
Eventual Thomas/Edward. More tags and summary and such to be added as the story progresses.
Review:
This is a very, very slow friendship-to-romance fic. It's almost painfully slow, but at least its an improvement on the show. (I really wish canon wasn't stuck on the Reality is Unrealistic version of LGBT history. We're very nearly as far as Isherwood's Berlin by Season 3 and London wasn't so far removed. LGBT history is fascinating [most subaltern history is, imo] and sure it's great when shows like this include gay characters, but do they have to act like nothing happened in LGBT history until Stonewall?)
Anyway, pardon my geeky rant and I'll get back on topic. This story splits off from canon because Thomas saves Edward from his suicide attempt (so it's an AU, from Season 2, Episode 2). I think this is a great fic. Thomas stays fairly in character, though slightly less unlikable - of course, in this fic, we're only seeing the parts of his life that make him happy rather than his interactions with the other staff at Downton, so I think that's part of the reason for the difference. There's not much of Edward to build from in canon, but I like the character this author has written. He's a canon disabled character and this story deals with that really well without that being all that he is. There's 8 chapters so far and just one more promised and I'm eagerly awaiting it (and hoping for a bit of fluff since this is such a slow-build fic).
Led Home (on AO3)