Hostage Negotiation is the Family Business
by a_t_rain
Ivan discovers that starting your first child is a bit more complicated if your in-laws are Jacksonian barons. Byerly attempts to help.
Words: 4885, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: F/M, Gen
- Characters: Shiv Arqua, Udine Arqua, Byerly Vorrutyer, Ivan Vorpatril, Tej Arqua Vorpatril
- Relationships: Ivan Vorpatril/Tej Arqua Vorpatril, Rish/Byerly Vorrutyer, Ivan Vorpatril / Flow charts
- Additional Tags: Book: Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, In-Laws, Male Friendship, Humor
read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/1ywoj7y
Okay, these are two of my favourite characters, and here is sort of why.
Let’s cast it as Garak and Bashir, because obvs.
So imagine Bashir and Garak are super-tight friends, and Garak is into Bashir, and Bashir is not into Garak. Canon, more or less.
Now imagine that they fall in love with sisters - again, more or less! - and marry the sisters, and the sisters are, like, Cardassian-Ferengi hybrids who are super pretty and super smart and have _super terrifying inlaws._
And also imagine that Bashir is from a ridiculously repressive culture (not quite so), as is Garak (very much so).
And then they each want to start a family. And they talk about it. And negotiate with the in-laws. And it’s all amazing world-building and Cardassian threats and Ferengi negotiations and steadfast Julian and wiggly Garak and
GOD, THIS IS PERFECT.
Except it’s not Julian and Garak, it’s Ivan and Byerly, and I haven’t had so much fun reading fic in recent memory~~~~
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