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igenlodeThis is the story I vaguely remembered but couldn't track down again when discussing authors who liked to write about Raoul 'suffering beautifully' -- not a particularly common trope.
Puzzle Pieces by lourdesmont
It's an epic if somewhat amateurish saga that is typical of its era of the fandom -- the difference is that it was an R/C story amidst a sea of fiction about E/C's tortured relationship. I'm not sure I can honestly include it as a fic rec (for the same reasons that it never made it into my favourites or my R/C community), but it is a landmark of its day.
(Although having just been writing and researching the train service from Paris to Lyon and Dijon, I can't help finding myself now wincing at chapter 3, in which our protagonists travel cross-country on a sleeper service for three days in order to reach Lyon -- I came across a similar episode in a "Frozen" story where the characters spend days on a nonstop train journey from the North of England to London, a trip that could be made in a matter of hours as early as 1848. I think US authors tend to mentally picture 19th century European railways on the scale of the American continent.)
Puzzle Pieces by lourdesmont
It's an epic if somewhat amateurish saga that is typical of its era of the fandom -- the difference is that it was an R/C story amidst a sea of fiction about E/C's tortured relationship. I'm not sure I can honestly include it as a fic rec (for the same reasons that it never made it into my favourites or my R/C community), but it is a landmark of its day.
(Although having just been writing and researching the train service from Paris to Lyon and Dijon, I can't help finding myself now wincing at chapter 3, in which our protagonists travel cross-country on a sleeper service for three days in order to reach Lyon -- I came across a similar episode in a "Frozen" story where the characters spend days on a nonstop train journey from the North of England to London, a trip that could be made in a matter of hours as early as 1848. I think US authors tend to mentally picture 19th century European railways on the scale of the American continent.)
