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My Dearest, Teddy.

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My Dearest, Teddy,

I’ve enclosed the address with which to contact me, for I believe we’ve left far too many words unsaid between us.

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Havers has lots of emotions and you bet he’s writing them down in letters to The Captain.

Notes:

We are going to ignore the existence of postal censors because I thought being able to write more freely was more important in this case.

I hope you enjoy me getting progressively more soft over these boys.

I could continue these throughout their time apart (lowkey I have IDEAS), so if anyone wants me to make this a series pls let me know!!!

Chapter 1: Yours Eternally, or as long as you’ll allow, William.

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My dearest Teddy,

I’ve enclosed the address with which to contact me, for I believe we’ve left far too many words unsaid between us. I hope you’ll find it in your heart to at least send one reply, to reassure my own in thinking there was something there and that I haven’t imagined it.

I’d like to have left with the knowledge that I had a sweetheart remaining in our homeland, waiting for my return, but I suppose time wasn’t on our side. Amongst other things.

If you had asked me to stay, if you had even uttered a single word to begin to ask, I find it hard to believe I wouldn’t have stayed without a second thought. Perhaps it was foolish of me to think that you would, and certainly foolish of me to say now that I’d have stayed.

I know that where I am now, where I am headed, is a necessary move to make. I have to do my part. We all do. You shudder at the thought of the front line, of how unsafe we all are, I know, but is the front line not the heart of it all in the end? You did always say I had to be at the centre of everything. Like the sun if I recall correctly? Perhaps you were right. I wish I could relive the afternoons that you would berate my brazen behaviour and I’d do nothing but grin in reply, I miss those days already.

You must understand that without those of us out here, there would be no chance for humanity, or for us to ever meet again. It is the thought of returning to your side once it’s all over that keeps me going really, and I presume it’ll be that same thought that keeps me alive in hard times to come.

Forgive me if I’ve presumptuously offered my heart to you should you have no desire for it, but pray let me down gently, when I’ve returned, and not a moment sooner, for I am sure I shall not make it home without the thought of your arms waiting to hold me. I know I shouldn’t lie to myself, but I find it hard not to when it comes to you.

I hope you shall warrant me worthy your reply, because I wait anxiously. And I hope our your project is taking shape as you always hoped it would. Please tell me all about it. Stay safe, my love.

Yours eternally,

Or as long as you’ll allow,

William.