Title:  Figureheads
Fandom:  Horatio Hornblower (TV series and books)
Pairing:  Archie/Horatio
Categories:  angst, romance
Length:  Medium [~4,000 words]
Warnings:  n/a


Author on LJ:  n/a
Website:  Their page on Fanfiction.net

Summary:  After his release from the Spanish prison, Archie must find his footing again.

Review:  A little bonus fic for literary week!  The Horatio Hornblower fandom is necessarily based in part on the excellent miniseries, but the first episodes cleave well to the C.S. Forester books, and this fic takes place during that period. 

Archie is, understandably, upset and off-balance by his experience at Don Masserado's.  I love how this fic lets Horatio help his friend back from his depression, and I adore Archie's character-appropriate confession of affection (which incorporates his past as a stage actor).  The underlying metaphor of the sea-legs was well-used, and made an excellent frame for the story as well as a good method of characterization for Horatio and Archie both. 

Figureheads