@baggebythesea #Gytha's no quitter #Does it really counts as sins of the flesh if the flesh is second hand? Something for Father Thomas to consider #Because Gytha considers it A LOT
Father Thomas: Gytha's flesh is still first-hand, so yes, it counts. (takes a hit of the communion wine)
baggebythesea: #Due to shenanigans - the gossips (who quickly picks up on the fact that Gytha seems to show a lot more ankles these days) - #decide that she must be Taken Advantage Of by Master Frankenstein #Which - while not unheard of - is supposed to be handled with a certain level of finesse #Since everyone in the parish knows perfectly well Victor's level of chill they take upon themselves to educate him in The Ways Of Gentlemen #This does exactly nothing to reduce Victor's stress level
XD I love it, but even Gytha's not that scandalous - it's still the 1800s, she could absolutely get let go without reference for that sort of thing (not at all a good state for a single working-class woman in her thirties to be in that era, she'd likely never find another position after that). The showing ankle is happening by adjusting her skirts juuuuuust~ that much higher if she sits down on a stump next to Adam in the forest to luncheon together, or if she has to go through a muddy bit and hold up her skirts to keep them clean. Gytha may be thirsty as hell for this man, but she's not going to stop being respectable about it just because she's technically a ruined woman!
The frustrating part is that Adam, due to his everything, doesn't actually know any of these social cues she's throwing at him. This leads to her encouraging him to start borrowing Mistress Elizabeth Frankenstein's novels - she has some works of Austin that, for all they are somewhat older, are still quite popular.
He ends up misunderstanding this slightly as well, and ends up reading several of them aloud to Gytha, allowing progress to be made in a somewhat unorthodox way, but, nevertheless, progress! Gytha does get a little swoony over Mr. Darcy, because he's awkward, grumpy, and quite the sweetest gentleman alive beneath all that, much like her Adam.
Adam: (an understandable combination of grumpy and hurt by the last one) You are having cruel fun with me.
Gytha: I most assure you, I am not.
And that's when the first forehead kiss happens. It's not a quick dart in and back sort of kiss either, it's a good solid one, and even once it's done she's slow to draw back, just taking a moment to enjoy seeing him so close like this.
This is also when it first clicks to Adam that, Oh. I think she might... actually like me like me. And he notices a little wisp of her hair has come loose and is falling in her face, so, in a very hesitant attempt to check if he's reading the signs right, he slowly reaches out and tucks it behind her ear again, and she leans into his hand a little, and-!
-and he needs to find someone to talk to about this beyond Gytha, because God as his witness, he has no idea what he's doing or how to handle this.
Gytha: I think I know just the person!
Which is how, a few weeks later, Father Thomas comes to find a Truly Enormous Man, wearing a large cloak and with his face mostly hidden by an equally large hat and scarf, sitting in his confessional.
Father Thomas just starts leaving the communion wine in the confessional after that one. It's easier for everyone.
The entire parish gossip chain is also now alight with the fact that Father Thomas is giving Master Frankenstein fairly routine dirty/disapproving looks now, and oh, what must he have done now?
Victor: (meeting Father Thomas's gaze with terror and (for once) the correct assumption that he knows)
Father Thomas: (does indeed knows, and wishes very much that he did not knows, he handled Adam's everything better than pretty much everyone else who isn't Gytha has so far (in part because of prolonged exposure to Gytha, in part because Gytha herself helped Adam prep on how to handle this) but, God as his witness, seminary did not prepare him for this, what is with this parish?!?)
izzy806
discoholicmusic
kaledo-art
dededos
