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Dear Mr Knightley,
We expect you promptly at five o’clock for dinner. I hope this is agreeable to you.
Regards,
Emma WoodhouseDear Emma,
Thank you for the kind offer, but given that I have received no prior warning of this occasion, you must excuse me if I beg off. I have a previous engagement.
Much appreciatively,
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28 May 2025
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she is when and he is always how by cartoonheart
Fandoms: Emma - Jane Austen, AUSTEN Jane - Works, Emma. (2020), Emma (2020), Emma (TV 2009), Emma (1996)
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The room is then cut with the sound of George’s sharp laugh. He rubs a hand over his eyes before looking back at her with incredulity. “You seriously want me to be your... pretend boyfriend?”
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23 May 2025
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When leaving the Christmas party at Randalls, Emma recruits Mr Knightley’s help to avoid a tête-a-tête with Mr Elton. As a consequence, the events of the following weeks unfold rather differently than in canon.
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22 May 2025
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When Mr Knightley falls ill after the Box Hill excursion, Emma takes on the task of nursing him back to health.
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22 May 2025
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“Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”
“Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.
“How do you know?”
Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.
That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.
“He has to know,” Andrew says.
“Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”
Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.