TITLE: The Poet

FANDOM: Hornblower

PAIRING: Horatio/Archie

NOTE: For Ci

Nothing is as beautiful as you, love.

Horatio scowled, and scattered ink. He crumpled the paper and started again, carefully copying out the words. The N smudged; he ignored it.

It could not be this hard, he thought. He could be romantic, make that rare blush creep across Archie’s cheeks, like Dawn peeking over the clouds.

He thought that was a particularly good image and wrote it down, before screwing up the paper again. Archie would laugh.

“Horatio?”

Horatio pinned him against the table and sent the inkwell to its welcome end.

“I love you,” a kiss: simple romantic he.