a bit of lawrence/feisal slashy silliness

[cimorene]

because lilah's wish is my command, i share with you a parody of the climax of the Imaginary Story* i am imagining about lawrence and feisal's sad little manpain, or painful epic love--depending on how seriously you take it.  it also happens to be a scene out of a dangerous man, but this is not, needless to say, even within shouting distance of the actual dialogue.  uh, it is possibly vaguely spoilery though.

lawrence/feisal, pg, maybe a coupla hundred words. 

LAWRENCE flies into FEISAL's arms. 

FEISAL: baby?  is that YOU?
LAWRENCE: you don't recognise my smell.  i got this jacket off a hobo.
FEISAL: i thought i'd never see you again!  you vanished!
LAWRENCE: this is gonna sound hard to believe, but it actually was the government, they made me stay in england.
FEISAL: that's okay, i never believed except that one--well--uh--i never wanted to believe you could stay away on purpose.
LAWRENCE: i finished my book, you couldn't read it in progress because it's bad luck if someone reads a love poem about them before it's finished, but i think i've finally got the perfect rhyme for 'sand', and i came looking for you right away and... i would be honoured if you would read my love poem, i mean book.
FEISAL: nobody's ever written me a love poem THIS long before.  listen, i'm going to go to a meeting for big people now, but don't go anywhere!  i get out at five and we should have plenty of time to re-enact the dirty bits.  where are you going?
LAWRENCE: it's just, i left my trunk outside with my other poetry in.  they wouldn't let me take it in the hotel.
FEISAL (stricken): if i'd known i would see you, i would have brought my trunk of poetry i wrote about you. now i'll have to send someone out to get it out of the car!


*this is a word i have just invented for one of those stories you mull over, design, formulate and polish endlessly in your head without ever intending to write it down

Comments

[perhael.livejournal.com]

*lots and lots of hearts*

best imaginary story ever!

*uses danny icon because it represents teh angsty manpain omg*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm gonna have to watch the whole thing again and make thousands of caps and uh. icons.

imaginary stories make the best icons!

FEISAL: i wanted to figure out what the absolutely best conceivable present in the universe would be so i could give it to you, because nothing else would be worth to express the burning, ineffable, poetic proportions of our pure, manly love.
LAWRENCE: i had the exact same thought about you. then i decided it would be syria. ...and we both know how THAT turned out.
FEISAL: aw, baby, you tried your hardest! and that doesn't really matter anymore. plus, don't interrupt me. i was just saying i finally figured it out. i'll make it illegal for anybody except you to practice archaeology in my kingdom. i know how you love dirty old buildings! but look, you'd have to get started right away, you probably won't even have time for house-hunting, but that's okay, you can live with me, winkwink.
LAWRENCE, admiringly: that is SO sneaky! someone hasn't JUST been writing poetry while i was gone!
FEISAL: thanks! if i still have a kingdom when i come back in a couple hours we'll sign the papers. don't hold your breath for that, though. if not we can console each other.
LAWRENCE: while i'm out getting the trunk i'll pick up some lube.
FEISAL, beaming: see, i told you we were a great team!

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Vastly happy at Lawrence and Feisal. Especially the trunks.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the original idea was they wrote buckets of poetry (or possibly shoeboxes), but then if you consider them being apart for eleven years, we had to upgrade the estimate to trunks.

i mock lawrence and feisal, but really i love them. their angst moves me. even if manpain is, at heart, really funny.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

I love them, too. My dad loved him as an example of the British hero complex and how it sometimes sort of kind of worked. There's an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum (http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/54/Lawrence/index.htm) here, and I will probably wander along at some point.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i spent a few hours reading about him recently and i have to say i think lawrence was (delightfully of course) even weirder than the british hero complex alone could account for. i mean, besides the patriotism, he seems to have started out motivated by his fanboy feelings about arabia in general.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

ohhh. nifty link.