Day 3 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the post to update with any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have for today.

Keep the fires burning!

(Considering the temperatures we're currently having over here, I expect spontaneous self-combusting on my part. *sighs*)

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

"Arthur's Quest" going on nicely. Lancelot didn't fail the test, but taht doesn't mean that his problems are over. Far from that.

Excerpt:
Lancelot shook his head. “I cannot do that to Elena. She deserves better.”

The Dame Brisen let out an impatient sigh. “How can you be so brick-headed? She doesn’t want something better. She wants you, and she does not care who else she might have to share your heart with.”

“It would be wrong, “insisted Lancelot, and the enchantress rolled her eyes.

“You are a stubborn fool. Despite your outlandish ideals, though, you should remember one thing: Princess Elena is carrying your child, a child of a prophecy. As you may never sire another heir, obsessed as you are with your future Queen, you are responsible for that child. Not only because it may be the only one carrying on your line – you will be responsible for it to fulfil its destiny.”

Lancelot found that he began to understand why Merlin seemed to hate that word so much.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Good for Dame Brisen explaining thing to Lancelot - it sounds like he deserves it at this point!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, no wonder the poor sod is so confused. He never wanted to sleep with Elena in the first place. (As you know I'm going with the legends here, rather than with TV-canon, which is very stupid.)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

When a man says she deserves better you know he's about to run :) Destiny is a harsh mistress I see, maybe he should have thought about right and wrong before he got her pregnant!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, to Lancelot's defence, he was seriously tricked. He thoguht he'd be spending a night with Gwen/Guinevere, while it was, in fact, Princess Elena, put under a transformation spell by the Dame Brisen (all canon stufff, BTW). She was supposed to have a baby with Lancelot, but Lance was so fixed on Gwen that he wouldn't knock her off otherwise, so it isn't really his fault.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm not going to give him points for wanting to dally with a married woman.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, at this point Gwen isn't married yet. And in the TV-show she keeps making cow eyes at both guys.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

She deserves better

Ouch, ouch a thousand times ouch. That is the ultimate you-are-utterly-unfuckable line to deliver regarding a woman. I got it ten years ago and even reading it still smarts.

ouch. And getting her up the pole too. I hope Lancelot has ten more fucking castles to liberate before morning. Bastard.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't be so hard on poor Lancelot! As I said above, it isn't entirely his fault. He slept with her, thinking that she was someone else, after all.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, all right, didn't see that bit. Ahem :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No problem! Lancelot is not upset. *points at icon*

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

He can come around my place and be not upset as much as he likes :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

He's frigging cute, isn't he? (Well, Santiago Cabrera is.)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Lancelot found that he began to understand why Merlin seemed to hate that word so much.

Tyranny by prophecy. Enforced by sorcery. (Although the sorcery does seem to have been very accurate in indentifying the time of peak fertility.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's all terribly complicated. But they'll work out things, eventually. And he enjoyed it while it lasted, so it wasn't a complete loss. *is cynical*

(Sorry, the phone rang and I hit the Send button by reflex.)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

A stubborn knight there.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

He does have his lofty ideals - alas, reality doesn't always follow them.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Rock and a hard place. He knows it would be wrong to continue with her, but he does have a duty to the child.
Really like that last line there.