Title: Jeeves and the Blessed Indiscretion
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Categories: Humor
Length: Medium (4,358 words)
Warnings: blackmail, references to homophobia in 1920s society

Author on LJ: astolat / astolat
Author Website: Intimations / astolat

Review:
Jeeves is being blackmailed. Bertie overhears and saves the day, in his own inimitable fashion. A light and frothy fic, with a little hint of angst underneath for poor Jeeves's situation. I imagine if the tale had been told from Jeeves's perspective, there would be buckets of angst as he worries about what the blackmailer will do. Fortunately, Bertie has noticed something is wrong, and both his take on things and his methods are simultaneously hilarious and effective. (As his conscripted assistant says "God looks after fools and madmen.") In the end, Jeeves's secrets are safe, and the two come to a surprising and mutually beneficial understanding.

It's such a fun story, and one I've used for a pick-me-up on occasion. It's astonishing how much astolat fits into less than five thousand words of fic, the characterization and humor and action. For once, Jeeves needs someone to fix things, and Bertie does it in spades.

It is a well-known fact that a person can never see the way out of their own difficulties. I cannot count the number of times Jeeves has brought the dawn unlooked-for in darkness when I was positively certain I was in the soup. Plainly he was now stymied by his own troubles, and it fell to yours truly to return the favour. I considered it as a debt of honor.

Jeeves and the Blessed Indiscretion (author's site) (yuletide)
with bonus podfic by fayjay