bullet challenge by sageness

[sage]

eta: Wow, I was so caught up in coding the website version that I completely forgot to thank malnpudl for the speedy and super-helpful beta! My apologies, Mal, and many thanks!

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31st March, 1958

Whitehorse General Hospital
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory


Mr. and Mrs. George Fraser
c/o General Delivery
Tuktoyuktuk, NWT


Dear Mother and Father,

I hope this letter finds you well and that you've been spared the influenza outbreak this year. I'm afraid I won't be home in time for spring break-up. Buck and I ran into a touch of trouble with a band of American poachers and I took a bullet to the leg. It broke the femur, to be precise, but I'm fine.

Nevertheless, the surgeon here won't see fit to release me until he puts me through a ridiculous battery of tests—he claims driving a dogsled is more than a man in my condition could bear, if you can credit it. Ridiculous! I'm fine, but that horse doctor is having none of it.

I daresay I'll see you with the mosquitoes.

Your son,                         
Robert                          

p.s. You may have seen in the newspaper that Buck and I received a commendation for a little matter involving the rescue of an oil company geologist and his official "guide" from Ottawa. I'd have you not be too impressed: it reeks of politics—and besides, men who walk out onto a glacier unprepared will get what they deserve—but I'm hardly fool enough to refuse their gesture.


p.p.s. I've met a girl and aim to marry her. If it takes, I'll bring her with me.




 

Comments

[nic_fics]

Oh, now, that's just genius. That Bob voice is perfect. I could just quote the whole thing back at you, but...

If it takes !

and as for

I'd have you not be too impressed

That's a beautiful little phrase.

[sage]

Aww, thank you! I'm so glad it worked for you. :)

[china_shop]

I daresay I'll see you with the mosquitoes.

*adores* This is gorgeous, wonderfully self-deprecating and self-lauding, all at once. Oh, Bob!

[sage]

YAY! Thank you!

GLOMP!

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic Bob with all of his skewed priorities.

[sage]

Yay, thanks! :)

[catwalksalone]

*applauds*

This is pitch perfect Bob. Go you! *smish*

[sage]

Woohoo! Thank you so much for saying so! :)

[vsee.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh. Great snapshot of Bob. I love this.

[sage]

Thank you, I'm so glad! :D

[luzula]

I am so impressed with this. God, the language, it's just perfect! And the pps just says so much about him.

[sage]

Aww, thank you, hon! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I'm familiar with "A lady speaks her mind in the post-script," but "A Mountie speaks his mind in the PPS" is even more lovely.

[sage]

*giggles* I hadn't even though of that, but yes -- YES! It really is. *G*

[jadelennox]

The whole letter is a great bob voice but that PPS is beyond perfect.

[sage]

Aww, thanks! :)

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, Bob! You were an ornery young coot, too, weren't you? Bless Caroline for putting up with you.

Marvelous writing!

[sage]

*laughs* He was!

Thank you so much! :)

[akite.livejournal.com]

Perfect Bob voice. I smiled and chuckled through it all, especially the PPS.

[sage]

Aww, thank you! :)

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, but my most favorite part is the p.p.s. So like men of that age/area/profession to declare the existence of their fiancee in a postscript. Especially the "if it takes"—*dead*

[sage]

Yay, thank you! I did have in mind a certain generation's epistolary style, and how Bob might quirk it to suit his own mind. *g*

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

I love this whole thing (great Bob voice), but I really really love the p.p.s.

[sage]

Thank you! :D

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

*LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES*

Especially the last line. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

[sage]

Aww, yay! Thank you, hon, I'm so glad you enjoyed! :D

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Oh, just dandy!

Bob reminds me way too much of my Uncle's letters to his mother from Adak, 1942.

Julia, silly mens

[sage]

Thank you! And hurray! I'm SO GLAD to hear that! I was thinking of correspondence I've read from that same time period, but I love that it fits with your uncle's letters, too. :D

[pixiecatfish.livejournal.com]

Yay, Bob fic! And young in the prime of his life, Bob, too! This was wonderful.

I loved the "if it takes" line. You can tell he was already head-over-heels about her, but didn't want to jinx it. Awwww.

[sage]

Thank you, I'm so glad it worked for you! :D

[kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I *like* this; it sounds just the way he writes.

[sage]

Thank you, I'm so pleased you think so. :D

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!

Oh, Bob! Caroline's a p.p.s.

&hearts

[sage]

YAY!!! And thank you! :D

GLOMP!

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're always so classy!

[sage]

*gigglesnort* Me?! I tell ya, it's been so long since I wrote anything of real substance, I've forgotten what it feels like. It was fun to suddenly find myself in Bob's head, though. Or to have him in mine. *g*

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

If it takes--ouch, ouch! Like a grafted branch or something? Oh, that's so Bob. He's such a piece of work.

Poor Fraser!!!

Excellent work; very authentic sounding. Oh, Bob.

[sage]

Thank you! :D

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love this! Great voice--and Caroline's got her work cut out for her, yessir. ;)

[sage]

Thank you! And heee, yes, she really does. *g*

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Oh geez. How ... Bob of him. It's amazing Fraser ended up as sane as he did.

[sage]

And it's all his grandmother's doing, I'm sure! *g*

[pigtailedgirl.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Bob always putting the work before the love life.

[sage]

Thank you! And yes, certainly Buck before Caroline. *wist*

[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Sage, this killed me ded. Hilarious Bob voice!

[sage]

Aww, yay! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :D

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

oh, Bob! This is just perfect Bob-voice. ♥

[sage]

Thank you, I'm so glad you think so. :D

[tygermama.livejournal.com]

here from luzula's crack_van rec...

OMG Bob! *hugs Caroline* that woman must have been a saint!

Everything you need to understand Bob Fraser is right here, in one letter home, you did a beautiful job!

[sage]

Thanks! I'm so glad it worked for you. :D