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Thursdad and his son Morse <3
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Thursdad and his son Morse <3
Into An Air Which I Could Breathe, An Endeavour Magical Realism Fanfiction by Hekate1308
Fred had often wished that Morse could be - well, not that he would no longer be Morse, but that he could be happy and comfortable while being so.
And then he got his wish - quite suddenly, from one day to another.
As was so often the case, he was going to learn that certain things came at a price.
Length: 22 chapters, ca 44000 words
Read on AO3
ITV Endeavour Characters as art!! (Part 2?)
Names and explanations of things are under the cut!! (A lot of it is colour-based and somewhat repetitive, be warned)
God I love this silly show!
And I also love the fact when we get characters where it’s like “oh right! They were in Morse/Lewis!”
Nothing happens by accident in this show! It’s all just so well planned out
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
It was, as happened so often to be the case where Morse was concerned, an unfortunate accident.
Length: 15 chapters, ca 30.000 words
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Amnesia, The Thursdays Adopt Endeavour Morse
Thursday's Child: Final chapter
The final chapter, or rather the epilogue, of Thursday's Child is now up on AO3.
“But a golden wedding anniversary is so special! And Dad said they won’t have anyone else there. That their son, our uncle, died young when helping to rescue people during a fire; and their daughter and her family cannot be in direct contact because of some kind of hit-list Grandpa Fred landed up on. I don’t understand it all, but Dad said Trenton was the name under which they built a new identity when they returned here from America after my birth.”
“Yes, child, I know. I knew your grandparents too, back in the day… before their visit to America.”
“Then can’t you come up with me? They would love to see you and if you’re with me, I don’t have to worry about travelling at odd hours. Please……..”
Even as he shook his head firmly, Morse felt completely powerless against those pleading eyes that were rapidly filling with tears. As Felicity gulped and brought up one hand to swipe the back across her nose, he found himself weakening against his will.
What harm would it do at this stage? That was the foolish whisper from his heart. No—after keeping Fred and Win safe for almost 20 years, he couldn’t botch it now by giving in to his selfish desire to see them again. Or so argued his head.
Read the rest on AO3.
I really do think that all Endeavour fans need to read a) the Discworld Watch books and b) Monstrous Regiment, because Russell Lewis is *such* a Discworld fan, and there are literal lines lifted (omg the moment where Max gets a line spoken by the Watch's Igor is INCREDIBLE), and it's a delight to know that Thursday is very blatantly partly based on:- 1. the most cynical copper who ever lived, who is constantly fighting his own darkness and has a son called Sam and can be terrifyingly protective of the people he loves 2. the most horrifyingly competent and scheming and also terrifyingly protective of "his little lads" sergeant who ever sergeanted and who is also canonically... (behind the cut is a fairly major Monstrous Regiment spoiler...)
... a trans man. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 (This means so so so much to me I cannot tell you. :) )
(And omg, yep, Jackrum's "talking to Ruperts" voice and Vimes's "talking to aristocrats" voice is totally deployed when Thursday is dealing with Bright before Bright's upgrade to awesomeness. And, um, one of the aristocrats who Vimes deals with on a regular basis? Is called Ronald Rust. NO ONE can tell me that Reginald Bright wasn't originally partly based on both Rust and Lt Blouse, though of course Bright (like Blouse) does get that upgrade. :D )
(I think it's not too much of a stretch also to see Endeavour's Morse as just a little bit based on Carrot (as well as a bit on Vimes too), to see Jakes as based partly on both Nobby and all three of Wazzer, Lofty, and Tonker (AAAAAAAAAH MY HEART FRICKING OUCH), and so on. And I am still waiting for someone to write a fic in which Joan's a werewolf; I'm not usually a Morse/Joan shipper but I would read the *fuck* out of that. :D )
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summer 1972. Peter Jakes is back in England and eventually in Oxford, where circumstances appear to first derail his plans to reconnect with family, and later open the door to perhaps a little more than he had dared to hope for. Helped of course by Morse and Bright amongst others!
Read more on AO3.