ext_7267 ([identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] b2mem2012-03-29 07:58 am

B6 - There'll Always Be An England

B2MeM Challenge: Facets of Faramir: Statesman; Meta: [canon work] took place during WW1 or 2
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Faramir
Pairings: N/A
Summary: A first at Balliol (history)

There’ll Always Be An England

Childhood was a brief golden summer, blighted by his mother’s sudden death. After that came poetry, and the relative obscurity of the second son. A first at Balliol (history). He survived the first war, but scarred, besieged by tumultuous nightmares. Women of a certain type adored him for his cheekbones, the early loss of his mother, his sombre solitude, his kindness. Entering Parliament on his brother’s death, he understood the Nazi threat early. The backbenches beckoned, then vindication under the new PM. And as the bombs hit Dresden, he thought: I am not the man I imagined I would be.

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