Marvey Secret Santa 2018 - Gift for harveylovesmike
Merry Christmas, @harveylovesmike!!!
Summary: fic, WWI AU, Mike and Harvey fall in love in French trenches
Notes: I hope you will enjoy reading my gift as much as I enjoyed writing it. I visited what was left of Northern France trenches just as I was searching an idea for this exchange, and the fic wrote itself... I hope you won't mind the AU too much. Merry Christmas!
It was freezing, and damp, and muddy, and Harvey didn’t think he’ll ever feel warm and dry again.
He would give about anything to be back in London, with his bachelor flat and his Law firm and his cars and his club.
But he stupidly volunteered back in 1914, when Lord fucking Kitchener, convinced overwhelming manpower would be decisive, set a nationwide campaign to encourage men to enlist. More than half his Oxford year joined by a few days–in corporate London, not to volunteer despite the ultra-patriotic atmosphere would have been a social suicide for Harvey, who had been famous for his athletic prowess as a student and his strong will as a young shark in London business.
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