#so until then enjoy whatever bonkers nonsense comes outnof my brain

[change-the-rules]

cressida is headed to wales maybe delia busby had a super queer ancestor that was a seamstress and the reason they own a drapers shop in the 50's and maybe they share looks over her aunts head while cressida gets some more 'sensible' clothes made, and maybe delia 1.0 sews the subtlest of embellishments, or a splash of color for cressida's eyes only anything to try and crack a smile from this beautiful woman with the melancholy eyes and air of heartbreak

maybe the country hurts too much because it reminds her of eloise, but then what doesn't remind her of eloise so really it all hurts, even delia's piercing blue eyes aren't her own when cressida looks into them, until they are

cressida desperate for real genuine human connection but refusing to, unable to trust

delia 1.0 with all the grace and charm of a horse kick that narrowly misses your head, she laughs too loud and touches too freely like someone else cressida knows, even as she starts making an deliberate effort to forget

but delia 1.0's energy is calmer somehow, she has a quiet confidence and surety unlike anyone cressida's ever known

kindness comes naturally to her in a way that cressida admires and envies in equal parts

perhaps without the pressures of the ton cressida finally learns her capacity for true kindness as well

maybe delia looks at her with the kind of stars in her eyes that cress had for eloise while all eloise could see was pen

maybe she finally lets go of the what-ifs and embraces the warm solid hand that wants her

that she finds she yearns for once she can suddenly see what's in front of her instead of only what she's lost

and maybe just maybe they smooch about it hidden behind piles of fabric away from prying eyes

like maybe cressida gets to feel some requited love for once that'd be neat