Ask meme drabble written for this challenge. Prompt: Kate Bush, a deal with God.

Tris and Four take a detour.

There in that white-gilt bedroom like a tomb, where I believe none of Gatsby's guests had ever before set foot except by mistake — none until Daisy, and I was only her adjunct and proxy, an accessory to her presence there in the house. He had forgotten about me then. He had forgotten about me now. I was his only witness.

October 14: En route to Varna, Seward must tell a fellow suitor what transpired one night at Hillingham.

For the prompt of Adrian being a big nerd, him being a small nerd about something that isn't Egypt or Alexander for once. When Adrian Veidt is twelve years old, he discovers Homer's Iliad.

When he is Lord of the Dreadfort he'll have ruby rings on his fingers.

There are other ways to engineer a crisis in Gilead.

But thou dost in thy passages of life
Make me believe that thou art only marked
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
To punish my mistreadings.

Edward receives an education in the inutility of virtue. The Earl abducts him for a session of discipline.

Connie makes her bones, almost.