nitapostsblog replied to your post “Quick guys! I need help! So I’m buying a bedding set and I can’t...”
second one! more relaxing
shana-rosee replied to your post “Quick guys! I need help! So I’m buying a bedding set and I can’t...”
Uuugggh they are both so cute! While I like the design better for the first one but I also have the coldest room in my house so I vote the second one b/c I understand the need for an extra blanket.
I caved in and got the first one. My sister said that the first one was more me. (But I might get them both eventually. SHHHHHH)
everthingdownton replied to your post “Quick guys! I need help! So I’m buying a bedding set and I can’t...”
Definitely the first one. It's much more sophisticated. the second one is nice, but the first is better. What website is this?
kinglinen.com
I checked their reviews on other websites and even though they've gotten some bad reviews, it's not a massive amount. I'm gambling a little bit, but the bedding set can't be much worse than the one I have now. (I had to basically hand stitch the seams of my comforter back together)
I think your Suzy story is so fantastic. I just love the chemistry between the three of them. My prompt to you is "fireplace".
SO THIS IS IT! At least for now ;o) this drabble series may very well pop back up the closer we get to Christmas, and I will put it up on FF too. BUT THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who followed and read and contributed a prompt! This little series was a lot of fun to write, even if it did take an angsty turn, but all is well, and now just a little more will be explained (besides the reunion of our lovely Branson family)
(Part One: Cocoa) (Part Two: Snowflake)(Part Three: Coat)(Part Four: Blizzard)(Part Five: Snow)(Part Six: Heat pt. 1)(Part Seven: Heat pt. 2)(Part Eight: Winter)(Part Nine: Mittens pt. 1)(Part Ten: Snowed-In)(Part Eleven: Mittens pt. 2)(Part Twelve: Mittens pt. 3)(Part Thirteen: Mittens pt. 4)(Part Fourteen: Frost Bite pt. 1)(Part Fifteen: Boots pt. 1)(Part Sixteen: Frost Bite pt. 2)(Part Seventeen: Boots pt. 2)(Part Eighteen: Boots pt. 3)(Part Nineteen: Ice)
Tom was the first person Suzy saw. The second the police car pulled up to the curb outside the park, the little girl began bouncing in her seat, banging her fists on the window and screaming for “TOM!” Tom raced forward, beating the policewoman to the car door and opening it himself, practically tearing it off its hinges. Suzy jumped into his arms and he grabbed her, hugging her so tightly and crying into her hair.
"Mo cheann daor…” he murmured over and over. “Me darlin’, you’re safe…we have you…we’ll never let anyone take you away again.”
Suzy just cried against his shoulder, then finally gasped, “MUMMY!” at which point Tom turned to see Sybil pushing her way through the police and small crowd that had gathered, her cheeks wet with tears, but she didn’t stop until she was there at their sides. Suzy launched herself from Tom’s arms into Sybil’s, and Sybil gasped and cried even harder as she hugged her daughter tightly.
Tom gave them a moment, though his arms ached to wrap around them both. Thankfully, Sybil felt the same ache, because she moved into him, pressing her body against his, and Tom wasted no time, enfolding both his girls in his embrace.
The little family wept and hugged and even exchanged teary kisses. Tom heard several sniffles and glanced up, watching as Mary and Edith stood off to the side, smiling back at them and dabbing at their eyes. “Thank you…” he mouthed to them, to which they both nodded back.
Sybil lifted her own head then and looked at her sisters. “How…how did…?”
"Tom," Mary answered for her, turning and smiling at him. "He recalled in that phone conversation hearing someone in the background knock on a door and say ‘housekeeping’, which provided us with the clue that Suzy was at some hotel. He rung me and we rang the police and Suzy’s picture was taken to practically every posh hotel in Dublin—"
"You only checked the posh hotels?" Tom asked.
At this, both Mary and Edith shared a laugh. “Knowing Jonathon, he wouldn’t dream of staying anywhere that wasn’t four stars at the very least,” Edith explained.
Thank God for that, Tom found himself thinking.
Sybil was back to fussing over Suzy, asking her if she was alright, if she had been hurt, if he had fed her, how she had slept, all sorts of questions. While Suzy tried her best to reassure her mother she truly was alright (only afraid because she feared she would never see either of them again), Tom heard a commotion and glanced up, his muscles tensing as the police brought a struggling Jonathon to a nearby patrol car. “UNHAND ME! DO YOU KNOW WHO MY FATHER IS!?”
Tom moved his body to shield both Sybil and Suzy from Jonathon’s gaze. Jonathon glanced towards them and cried out in a last attempt to gain some kind of sympathy, “Sybil! SYBIL PLEASE! DID OUR PAST TRULY MEAN NOTHING TO YOU!? Suzy! SUZY! IT’S DADDY! IT’S—”
The door to the patrol car was shut on Jonathon’s face.
"Murray will make sure he never bothers anyone ever again…"
Tom and Sybil turned to a different voice and Tom felt Sybil stiffen at the sight of her father who was approaching them. Tom could understand Sybil’s uncertainty; compared to the last time he had seen the Earl of Grantham, the man hadn’t been so calm or spoke with such a soothing tone.
"Your sisters rung me, after Susan was found," Lord Grantham explained. "And I just finished speaking with Murray—apparently, Lord Samuels threatened to deny Jonathon his inheritance if he did not ‘pay for his past sins’, but ‘doing what is right by Sybil and her child’."
Sybil gasped. “So that explains why he was so adamant for us to appear before his father as if we were married…”
Tom couldn’t say he was surprised, not after the stories Sybil had told him about the bastard. Everything regarding Suzy had been a selfish ploy, and had nothing to do with being a father.
"That was good detective work, Tom…"
Tom looked back at Lord Grantham and noticed that the man had extended his hand towards him. Tom swallowed and then reached out and closed the distance, shaking the man’s hand. Lord Grantham nodded his head, then gazed back at Sybil who was still hugging Suzy, but who had also snuggled against Tom’s chest, her whole body sagging against his in relief and exhaustion. Lord Grantham smiled then, and glanced back at his wife, who was standing by Sybil’s sisters, all three of whom were smiling as well. Maybe this was a first step?
"We would like to see more of Sybil and Susan—I beg your pardon, Suzy…and…and you, if we may, before we return to Britain at the end of the week. But right now, I think the three of you have earned a much deserved rest.”
Tom looked down at Sybil and saw her smile, before turning her eyes up to him. He smiled back and murmured his thanks again to the Earl, before turning his new family back up the road, back towards home.
Suzy had fallen asleep shortly after being reunited with them, but Sybil didn’t have the heart to let her go, not just yet. So instead, the three of them settled once again on the sofa in Sybil’s flat, Suzy curled in her mother’s arms, a thumb in her mouth, while Sybil curled in Tom’s. They gazed straight ahead, and Tom found himself imagining a fireplace where the TV stood, and smiled at the image in his head: their little family, snuggled together before a fire.
"Stay tonight," Sybil whispered, breaking through his thoughts.
Tom chuckled and kissed her brow. “I wouldn’t dream of going anywhere.”
Sybil smiled and laced her fingers with his. "Stay forever, then."
Tom grinned and leaned his head closer, his lips just a breath away from hers. "Gladly."
So I'm dying to know what you thought of it. How was Allen? Was it very scary? I wonder if they will ever release it here in the US.
I honest to god, though Allen was amazing in it. You know how you can really like an actor or actress, but whatever movie or show you see them in, you still see them as that "one character" they played.... well that was definitely NOT the case here.
I am not a fan of scary films, like at all - and I admit, I hid behind my scarf for some (okay, a lot) of it, but it was really clever and totally effed with your mind, you know?
It was also really interesting to watch, knowing that a lot of the fear in some of the scenes was real, and that the actor/actress was genuinely scared.
I hope it gets released in the US, you guys need to see this.
everthingdownton replied to your post: The nanny, Fellowes? Really? He couldn’t meet a...
At the risk of everyone jumping down my throat, I want to say that I am ok with Tom finding a new love interest as long as it is the right one. However, I agree with you that the nanny is the wrong choice. I don’t want Tom to be alone forever.
I hope people don't jump down your throat. People are entitled to their opinions, especially if they're respectful of others'. (I say this in relation to fandoms - I'm not advocating coddling racists or anything.)
I don't necessarily want Tom to be alone forever either. I'm just disappointed (not surprised - right on form, Fellowes!) that there are a whole lot of good meaty storyline possibilities that are apparently going to be glossed over in order to recycle the same old tired upstairs/downstairs secret romance BS.
