Fic: Persistence

[john_amend_all]

The last of my three unconventionalcourtship fics:

Title: Persistence
Author: john_amend_all
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pairing/Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
Rating: Teen
Length: 8209 words
Summary: Ten years since Anne Elliot turned down Frederick Wentworth, he showed up as a passenger on her plane. But compared to what would happen to her in the next few hours, that was the least of her problems.
Notes: The summary for prompt 87 ('Secret Agent Sam' by Kathleen Creighton) is pretty much Persuasion anyway. So I just dropped Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth into it, and let matters develop from there.

Trouble becomes him.

Reporter [Frederick Wentworth]’s penchant for working in war zones had gotten him into hot water before, but this was uncharted territory, even for him. Because the pilot assigned to fly him into danger was none other than [Anne Elliot].

Once she’d been [Annabelle May], an eighteen-year-old girl who’d looked at him starry eyed. Now she was [Anne], a very competent professional, whose eyes seemed to hold all manners of secrets. If [Anne] was thrown by learning who her new client was, she couldn’t afford to show it – or the fact that her strong feelings for [Frederick] hadn’t changed.

But if he couldn’t accept who she was back them, what would he possibly want with her now – now that life had taken a direction neither of them could have imagined…and left them both clinging to each other for their survival?

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