mi6-cafe:It’s WIP Wednesday! Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then tag @mi6-cafe s

It’s WIP Wednesday!
Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then tag @mi6-cafe so we can find and reblog it!
OR you can reblog this post with your WIP excerpt!
All ships, fandoms, and WIPs are welcome.

So, it’s AU April in @mi6-cafe-land. I really don’t write AUs (except when I do), but there is a paucity of Regency era AUs in this fandom… And while I do love me a good P&P AU, the ones that already exist are covering that angle well. However, with the popularity of Bridgerton there’s this whole new potential take on the genre (The Season in the Beloved Ton! The racy bits said out loud!) so I find myself contemplating a monster mashup… what characters will make an appearance? I’m not even sure… but definitely some from Bond and Bridgerton, with many inspired-bys from Austen novels, and maybe a few others. I have an outline of sorts (that’s growing… because ato), but here’s a peek at the beginning.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. And to hear it from his eldest brother, a third son —whether his fortune is particularly good or not— is much the same. At least that’s what he told Q the last time he suffered to come down from Sherrinford Hall.

“I won’t have you faffing about for another year,” he’d said, “tinkering away on frivolities and hiding away from society. You need to marry. It’s high time.”

“If you would just let me join the military engineers, as Grandfather and our Uncles did, I could work on less frivolous things.”

“We are gentlemen, Quintin. We do not work. But we are required to take our place in society. I expect you to participate in the Season this year.”

High Season in the beloved Ton. Q could hardly imagine anything more dreadful.