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Scene from my totally crazy Temeraire fanfic, Consequences of Waterloo: [link]

“Well… Miss Roland…”
“You have not called me Miss or Mr Roland for years, sir. What have I done to become undeserving of the name ‘Emily’?”
“You have done nothing!” he shook his head, desperate to realise he had once again involuntarily hurt her. “It is… it is my fault. I tried to… sound… official here… O God, this is getting more and more awkward… Emily… Temeraire has admitted to me that he told you about the Admiral’s letter.”
“He has,” she replied, her expression somewhere between amused and bashful with a hint of mischief. “And, you are here to…?”
He looked into her eyes, as if pleading her to finish the sentence, but she did not. “You are not going to make this easy for me, are you, Emily?”
“You have never made it easy for me either, sir,” she shrugged.
“I think I have not,” he hung his head. “But I do not want to beat around the bush. Temeraire said that if I asked you outright, you should contemplate the possibility of… Er… I am beating around the bush, aren’t I?” he managed a sour little smile.
“I asked him not to tell you what I said…” she replied, sounding slightly indignant. “Apparently he has decided not to listen to either of us…”
“Apparently he has,” Laurence nodded. “But I am glad he has, because this allows us to make things clear. Emily,” he straightened himself, folding his hands behind his back, “would you please consider giving me a child or two?”

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Characters by Naomi Novik.

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Some more Laurence/Emily fanfics from me:

A one-shot, Her Captain: [link]

A story of eleven chapters, While You Were Sleeping: [link]

And finally, a very dramatic, (will be) novel-length L/E fanfic, Like Mother, Like Daughter: [link]