what, the eight months of straight research for spaceforce wasn't enough?

Apparently Peter was a test pilot in England for at least a few years. Huh. Who knew?

Also got shot down once in Burma while he was actually flying -- that was the time he walked out of the jungle after three weeks -- and may have gotten shot down a second time when he was on a transport back for his second tour of duty. Depending how long an RAF tour would have been during WWII for a fighter pilot who'd been shot down once, as well as reported MIA.

He also crashed at least one test plane (this is the time he had to get back surgery). (I'm sure there was a point where all his COs were shaking their heads and saying, "Hey, at least he always comes back. God help us. Maybe we can lend him to the Army? I'm sure he's better suited to that than flying planes." I don't suppose they could lend him to the Army, could they? Anyone? burntcopper?)

Why do I always end up writing stories where I have to look up friggin' airplanes? Not to mention I have to crosscheck to see when certain planes were used, what the crew was, which theatres they were used in -- Peter flew a de Havilland Mosquito in Burma and a de Havilland Hornet in Malaya. (The last time I did this, I was making up shit for Spaceforce. Yes. Wikipedia was my friend when I was writing my original military sci-fi novel.)

He probably did not get shot down in Malaya. He did do other stupid and exciting things, though. (He'll do even more stupid and exciting things if my research were to turn up something like a POW camp, but it is not doing so. So far. For which we should be duly grateful, because all we need is Peter getting himself shot down on purpose. And Edmund was definitely not old enough to have fought in WWII, so seriously, let's be grateful.)

Brought to you by Lucy wondering why the hell Peter and Edmund have forgiven Susan for certain, uh, comments. Specifically for Peter's reply of, to something utterly cutting Susan says about his mental state, "It's only the crazy ones they let test fly planes, Su." (This after half an hour trying to find out if there was a specific squadron for test pilots post-WWII, and coming up with zip. RAF. Please to be just as well-documented as the USAF, yes? Or at least have as many Wikipedia pages. But no. That or I just don't know where to look.)

THIS FOR A THROWAWAY LINE. *weeps* I get distracted easily.

Narnia fic: "Dust in the Air" (6)

Title: Dust in the Air 6
Author: bedlamsbard
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia movieverse/bookverse
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And the end of all our exploring / will be to arrive where we started. An AU of The Last Battle, some five years after that book begins.
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to C.S. Lewis. Certain characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to Walden Media. Title and quote from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets: Little Gidding.
Author's Notes: This is part six, obviously, and this is also the first WIP I've posted since 2006. (And that WIP was abandoned, so one can see I'm understandably nervous about posting another one.) The structure of this lends it to being posted in sections, though, so that's how it's going up. Because of this, however, it's not getting posted to any comms until the whole thing is done.

( Dust in the Air 6 )

Part One 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17
Part Two 00 | 000 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Interlude | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

Narnia fic: "Without Motion"

So! I am breaking my usual twenty-four-hour post-fic vow of silence because apparently another of my fics went up yesterday and I didn't notice. Because I am an idiot like that.

Title: Without Motion
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: PG
Summary: Narnia cannot survive such a blow as this. Narnia, post-LWW, pre-Dying Times.
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to C.S. Lewis. Certain characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to Walden Media. Title and quote from T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men.
Author's Notes: Written for narniaexchange. Original prompt was "Tumnus leading the search after the Pevensies return to England." Thanks to lassiterfics for the beta.

( Without Motion )