Canon Story:MUSG
Title:Not His Father's Son
Author:
sabrinaphynn
Rating: G
Warnings: excessive abuse of canon, crossover with Dorothy L Sayers canon
I left Musgrave's service soon after the incident, taking Mother's surname to free myself from Brunton's taint. I found a place as a footman with a good family in Kent, married, and raised my children as paragons of service. In fact, my second son, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter , has just made head footman to Sir John Sanderton. He will go far.
John Bunter
Author's Note: Yes, well... the story mentions a boy in the list of the servants, and also that Brunton was a widower. I thought the boy was possibly his son, who would, of course, do the very opposite of his father. From that leap, a connection to Lord Peter Whimsey's devoted and highly intelligent manservant, Mervyn Bunter, and Musgrave's schoolteacher-turned-servant followed. So I made them family, naturally.
(The illegitimate one follows, also resolving the 'Whatever happened to Rachel?' issue. )
Rachel told me she needed to leave a week before he went missing. I pitied her; bereft, discarded, retching daily over her morning gruel. Rather than Wales, I suggested she head towards my people in Kent. I had brothers who were not averse to a pretty face and inclined to overlook a babe born "early".
Alicia Smithers, nee Bunter.
Author's Note: Yes, well... Don Juan is not a flattering label. I never thought well of Brunton, anyway. I think Alicia - the cook, by the way- liked Rachel and really just wanted to help her. As Rachel was pregnant and this loathsome man tossed her aside, one can see she would have cause to at least feel murderous, more so if one considers how she would be treated at the time. She certainly would not be inclined to get help on his behalf. Rachel's baby, by the way, is a girl, who grows up to become Mervyn Bunter's mother.
Who is Mervyn Bunter, you ask? well... click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter
Canon Story: MUSG
Title: Not Her Father's Daughter
Author: "sabrinaphynn"
Rating: PG
Warnings: child out of wedlock, me being a nerd and therefore abusing of Doyle and Sayers' canonical characters
Also: This story is separate to 'Not His Father's Child' Otherwise it would be half-sibling incest- far too many common genes/chromosomes.
Also: This story is separate to 'Not His Father's Child' Otherwise it would be half-sibling incest- far too many common genes/chromosomes.
Rachel told me she needed to leave a week before he went missing. I pitied her; bereft, discarded, retching daily over her morning gruel. Rather than Wales, I suggested she head towards my people in Kent. I had brothers who were not averse to a pretty face and inclined to overlook a babe born "early".
Alicia Smithers, nee Bunter.
Author's Note: Yes, well... Don Juan is not a flattering label. I never thought well of Brunton, anyway. I think Alicia - the cook, by the way- liked Rachel and really just wanted to help her. As Rachel was pregnant and this loathsome man tossed her aside, one can see she would have cause to at least feel murderous, more so if one considers how she would be treated at the time. She certainly would not be inclined to get help on his behalf. Rachel's baby, by the way, is a girl, who grows up to become Mervyn Bunter's mother.
Who is Mervyn Bunter, you ask? well... click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter