Welcoming Silences
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This is what he used to do reduced down to essentials.
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- Part 1 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Perhaps we should interrogate some of the mussels, sir.'
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- Part 2 of Welcoming Silences
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Foyle goes back to the station directly from the hospital.
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- Part 3 of Welcoming Silences
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He likes that neither Miss Stewart nor Foyle try to help him before he asks.
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- Part 4 of Welcoming Silences
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Why oh why hadn’t he gotten that pain scrip filled when Clara told him to.
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- Part 5 of Welcoming Silences
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Tea -- a cup of tea and an early night with a book.
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- Part 6 of Welcoming Silences
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On the Wednesday evening, Paul does the dishes, hangs up the cloth, and pours himself a generous drink.
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- Part 7 of Welcoming Silences
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This was going to be simple -- Jane was going to come home and this would be simple.
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- Part 8 of Welcoming Silences
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Paul spreads the small snaps out on the bedspread like a hand of cards and scoots slightly to one side so he can see them all.
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- Part 9 of Welcoming Silences
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He had a girlfriend once, just before he met Jane, who said he was all one color and he wonders if she meant beige.
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- Part 10 of Welcoming Silences
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Foyle takes himself fishing on Saturday morning.
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- Part 11 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Here. You’d...live here.’
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- Part 12 of Welcoming Silences
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For the first time in many years, Paul thinks, Fuck it.
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- Part 13 of Welcoming Silences
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They sit down in an oddly adversarial fashion on either side of the kitchen table.
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- Part 14 of Welcoming Silences
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This isn't his bed.
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- Part 15 of Welcoming Silences
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The bathroom is tiny.
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- Part 16 of Welcoming Silences
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Paul should really stop saying thank you.
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- Part 17 of Welcoming Silences
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Foyle locks his front door, locks his back door, and takes a cup of tea with him up to his bedroom.
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- Part 18 of Welcoming Silences
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Paul can tell when Foyle comes out of the farmhouse that something is off.
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- Part 19 of Welcoming Silences
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There is only one answer to that.
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- Part 20 of Welcoming Silences
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Hasn’t it become almost embarrassingly clear over the past few months that he’ll accept just about any invitation Foyle gives?
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- Part 21 of Welcoming Silences
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He only realises later that he never thought of his bad leg at all.
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- Part 22 of Welcoming Silences
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‘I don’t want you to think I’m doing this lightly.’
‘I don’t think you do anything lightly.’
‘Not many things. And certainly not this.’Series
- Part 23 of Welcoming Silences
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‘I’ll tell him what’s true. I’m planning to let out the two front rooms and it’s ridiculous to let a sitting room with nothing to sit on.’
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- Part 24 of Welcoming Silences
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‘I suppose it is a good thing we didn’t take the car after all.’
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- Part 25 of Welcoming Silences
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‘You’ve had this cold for two days, it’s only getting worse, and we’re doing filing here.’
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- Part 26 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Nice picture of you and the boys this morning.’
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- Part 27 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Your hat is always so straight.’
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- Part 28 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: candles/candlelight.
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- Part 29 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: gifts/gift-giving.
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- Part 30 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: elves.
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- Part 31 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: flannel sheets/bedding.
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- Part 32 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: Christmas movies [stories].
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- Part 33 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: snow/ice/blizzard.
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- Part 34 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: The Snowman/snowmen.
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- Part 35 of Welcoming Silences
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Prompt: winter walk.
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- Part 36 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: baking/sweets.
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- Part 37 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: childhood memories.
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- Part 38 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: companion animals.
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- Part 39 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompt: tea/coffee.
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- Part 40 of Welcoming Silences
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For the prompts: Lord of Misrule/kissing.
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- Part 41 of Welcoming Silences
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Paul slaps the guidebook shut and shoves it across the table.
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- Part 42 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Your hat is always so straight.’
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- Part 43 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Isn’t that Mr. Foyle’s jumper?’
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- Part 44 of Welcoming Silences
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‘No slurs on my jumper, please.’
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- Part 45 of Welcoming Silences
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‘We never talked about this. What would happen if one of us got hurt.’
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- Part 46 of Welcoming Silences
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‘Are we men like that, Christopher.’
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- Part 47 of Welcoming Silences
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There’s probably a better way to introduce a man at the end of a long week to the basket of kittens in his sitting room.
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- Part 48 of Welcoming Silences
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He has done absolutely nothing for his birthday the past three years and sees no reason to break the tradition now.
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- Part 49 of Welcoming Silences
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Cats and paperwork.
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- Part 50 of Welcoming Silences
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Andrew was no fool; Paul had told Christopher that again and again and again.
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- Part 51 of Welcoming Silences
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‘It’s a lovely day,’ Foyle says without apparent reference to anything in particular and Paul nods.
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- Part 52 of Welcoming Silences
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She can hear the sound of her own voice rattling away into nothing and sighs silently to herself, letting the story wander to a halt. It would be so much simpler if she could just ask the question and either of the men be able to answer it.
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- Part 53 of Welcoming Silences
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‘I didn’t know you played.'
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- Part 54 of Welcoming Silences
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Foyle is dozing when the doorbell rings.
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- Part 55 of Welcoming Silences
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“When we’re working, you do everything for me,” Christopher says softly. “I suppose I want, at home… to do more for you. Even things you could do yourself.”
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- Part 56 of Welcoming Silences
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It's when Paul limps visibly that Foyle finds he has the most trouble.
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- Part 57 of Welcoming Silences
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For the Twelvetide Drabbles 2017 prompt: candles, candlelight, flame, fire.
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- Part 58 of Welcoming Silences
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For the Twelvetide Drabbles 2017 prompt: tea.
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- Part 59 of Welcoming Silences
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here is the deepest secret nobody knows by elizajane
Fandoms: Foyle's War, The Bletchley Circle
06 Jan 2018
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A series of inter-connected drabbles charting the path of Sam Stewart and Susan Gray's relationship from lodger/landlady to friends to lovers in late 1940s London. Written for Twelvetide Drabbles 2018 between 24 December 2017 and 6 January 2018.
See note below for background/context as desired. Content note: pregnancy loss (recent miscarriage).
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- Part 60 of Welcoming Silences
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For the Twelvetide Drabbles 2017 prompt: unexpected travel.
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- Part 61 of Welcoming Silences
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For the Twelvetide Drabbles 2017 prompt: the morning after.
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- Part 62 of Welcoming Silences
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A story of how Hilda Pierce and Jean McBrien met, and fell in love.
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- Part 63 of Welcoming Silences
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Susan’s kiss had tasted of something new and wonderful, something Sam has somehow always known but long forgotten. Something secret, and safe, and right.
This piece more or less stands on its own, but overlaps slightly with the end of here is the deepest secret nobody knows and is its direct sequel. It takes place firmly within the Welcoming Silences 'verse.
Content note: pregnancy loss (recent miscarriage).
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- Part 64 of Welcoming Silences
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Two more bloody months.
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- Part 65 of Welcoming Silences
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This is the third dish he’s broken in the two weeks he’s been in London and if he goes on like this, he’s going to need to start buying replacements on a regular basis.
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- Part 66 of Welcoming Silences
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Prompt fill for Twelvetide Drabbles 2018 Day Five: grief, mourning, loss.
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- Part 67 of Welcoming Silences
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There’s something about Harold he almost doesn’t like.
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- Part 68 of Welcoming Silences
- Part 63 of On the Strength of the Evidence
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Fourteen years is quite long enough to turn almost anything into a habit.
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- Part 69 of Welcoming Silences