[love_bingo FIC] "A Leaf as Companion" (Gormenghast, Rating: G)

So, I signed up for love_bingo, the sister community to story_lottery, which I never did finish, though I have one or two more stories for it drafted (the prompts weren't that inspiring, I guess). These, however, are, plus I think I have a better grasp of the rules.

And my first fic... is a "Gormenghast" fic, featuring Mister Flay and the Wild Thing, aka the Wild Girl (or "the Leaf", as Peake called her in one draft: wish he'd kept with that name...). Christopher Lee, who played Flay in the BBC miniseries, was damn right about the character being incredibly hard to portray, since his speech patterns are so damn hard. "Can't... speak... full sentences," to quote one upstart anti-villain... ("Hm, I wonder who that could be..." to quote his mentor in a certain RPG...)

Love list: "Trust"
Word Count: 854

( Mister Flay laid eyes on the Wild Girl for the first time when she was perhaps seven summers old. )