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OMG happy one year Anniversary to Kein Schatten holt uns ein! We're definitely in endgame for this fic now and I'm finishing it soooo slowly, but man I love these characters. By the time I finish this fic, I'll have spent almost three years writing them. I'll miss them so much.
New Kein Schatten chapter tomorrow and it has both SMUT and FEELINGS. What more could we want?
“I am glad you have found everything to your satisfaction,” Beatrice said. “A good housekeeper is a most valuable asset.”
“Yes, Mrs Davies has been most thoroughly trained. Maxim would not tell me much about his old housekeeper, only that she chose to leave Manderley with the former Mrs de Winter. She was most careful in training her successor. Mrs Danvers was her name, wasn’t it?”
To her credit, Beatrice’s expression did not betray her discomfort for more than a second. “Yes, that is her name. You’ll find it is not unheard of to have a change in housekeeper on the advent of a new marriage. After all, who among us does not wish to shape their new home exactly according to our wishes?”
“It does make me wonder,” Mrs de Winter said, “that a woman of her training should choose to leave a most prominent position when she was not pressed to do so.”
Beatrice cleared her throat. “A professional connection of more than thirty years is not easily broken, my dear. Never underestimate the devotion of a dedicated servant.”
Chapter 12 of Kein Schatten is up! I’m officially abandoning the idea of uploading chapters on any sort of schedule. At this point, I’m just happy to be here and occasionally share some writing. Enjoy!
“I'm curious about your plans for the tea on Friday,” Rebecca said. “I don’t suppose you’re keen for the former and current Mrs de Winter to sit down at the same table?”
Beatrice had the decency to look guilty.
“Don’t worry,” Rebecca said. “I doubt I would have it in me to attend. I’ll stay nice and tucked away upstairs.”
“You know I would ask you to join if I could.”
Rebecca inclined her head. A thought was beginning to take shape in her mind, a sudden, desperate desire. She needed to know who this new woman was; what she had done with Manderley.
“There is one thing I would like to ask,” she said slowly.
“Yes?”
“I want you to have Danny serve the tea.”
“What?” Danny and Beatrice spoke in unison. Beatrice looked scandalised, Danny rather resigned.
“With a housekeeper and butler of my own I do not see how I could explain that to Daphne,” Beatrice said. “Or to Maxim if he gets wind of it.”
Rebecca knew her expression had become stubborn, her face set in the way it often had when she had still been Mrs de Winter. “She did not give you much notice. Williams will take his half day and Mrs Reid will be feeling under the weather. It’s the least you can do, Bee.”
Good afternoon, it is I, JonwithnoH, once again arranging for pivotal plot points to occur around the social ritual of afternoon tea. Which is to say, Chapter 10 of Kein Schatten is up and Rebecca is sort of getting in her head.
As they piled into a taxi after the opera, Beatrice sat in front. She watched the opera house disappear through the passenger window. She could feel her unease growing, anticipation morphing into dread. They would have to speak about it, and soon. There would be plans to be made, arrangements to be finalised. There would be her own move to think about, a change she had foolishly hoped she might not be facing alone. But not tonight. Tonight she only wanted to forget. Soon she would sleep, and dream, and think of anything but the thing foremost on her mind.
A hush had fallen over the elegant reception area by the time they returned. Beatrice gave a nod to the night clerk and led the way upstairs. The long corridor that housed their rooms was deserted. There was the faintest sound of a phonograph playing a few rooms down. They lingered in the corridor together, strangely reluctant. Beatrice felt as if there were a charge in the air between them, a buzzing electricity.
Rebecca took a step towards her and took her hand, the gesture uncharacteristically meek. “Why don’t you join us for a nightcap?”
“It does seem a shame to turn in right away.”
“You should join us.” Danny had stepped closer on her other side. “After all, we have barely had a chance to discuss the opera.”
Chapter 14 of Kein Schatten is up and let‘s just say, there are some new… developments.
“Because,” Mrs Lacy’s voice caught, “if I had even so much as suspected that I might not have made myself clear… I was on your side. I am on your side. Unwaveringly.”
Danny closed her eyes. She was acutely aware of Mrs Lacy so very close to her, staring intently at Mr Lacy’s books. She was short of breath, a tingling heat building in her fingertips. She was only half conscious of her own movements, of her hand moving to cover Mrs Lacy’s.
“Beatrice,” Danny whispered.
“Not you too.”
“Why not?”
Mrs Lacy shifted on her feet. “You’ll be the death of me, both of you.”
When Danny turned to look at Mrs Lacy, one eyebrow raised in quizzical mockery, she found Mrs Lacy already facing her, biting her lip.
“Beatrice,” Danny said again. How long had it been since she had dared to call Mrs Lacy by her Christian name?
Her hand trembling beneath Danny’s, Mrs Lacy closed her eyes, opened them again. “But then, what death could be sweeter than this?”
Chapter 3 of Kein Schatten is up! Yay 🥰
“How is Rebecca?” She asked.
“Asleep for now. I’m sure it’s only a cold, but I will keep an eye on her. I do worry ever since…” Danny broke off. When she spoke again, she took a step towards Beatrice, her face apologetic. “She doesn’t mean to put you out.”
Beatrice raised her eyebrows. “Have you come to apologise for her?”
The words were heavy on her tongue. She felt them drop into the room and settle between them, a wall of resentment and fear. Whatever moments they shared, whatever tenuous connection was forming between them, Danny’s loyalty, her heart, would always lie with Rebecca.
Chapter 11 of Kein Schatten is up!
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We‘re back, we‘re back, we‘re back! Chapter 1 of Kein Schatten Holt Uns ein, the Nie Wirst Du sequel, is up now and I‘m so excited! I have been looking forward to sharing this for so long ☺️
