Chapters: 1/2
Fandom: Endeavour (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Endeavour Morse & Shirley Trewlove, Endeavour Morse/Rosalind Stromming, Endeavour Morse / Claudine (Endeavour TV), Endeavour Morse & Joan Thursday
Characters: Endeavour Morse, Shirley Trewlove, George Fancy, Jim Strange, Ronny Box (cameo), Rosalind Stromming (mentioned), Rosalind Calloway (mentioned), Joan Thursday (mentioned), Fred Thursday (cameo)
Additional Tags: Episode: s05e03 Passenger, Episode Related, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Operas, Musical References, Character Study, Endeavour Morse Whump (just a little bit), Classical Music LPs, Romance, Some hints about Fancy and Trewlove's future relationship, Soul-searching
Summary:
What happened to the signed Rosalind Calloway record stolen from Morse’s flat?
How it came back to his owner and what it means to him is at the heart of this slightly AU fic.
Tosca’s most famous aria floated around Morse, weaving a spell around him. But a spell whose potency had now lost much of its charms, despite his eagerness to listen to the voice he had thought vanished in the mists of his memories, as buying another recording had proved near impossible.
‘Why?’ he asked himself, unable to shake his unease. Pondering that unwelcome mystery, he settled more comfortably in the armchair, crossing his legs and slipping a pillow beneath his back to ease the sore. ‘Was it that he could no longer separate the dead woman who sang so persuasively from the cold blooded murderess planning in such punctilious details the demise of two innocent people? Had he invested in her all the qualities and frailties of the opera heroines she sang so beautifully?’