Disclaimer: I don't own either A Great and Terrible Beauty or Rebel Angels. I don't in any way profit from this story and all the creative rights to the characters belong to their original creator, Libba Bray. Blah, blah, blah. Just don't sue me, okay?

A series of vignettes between Fee and Simon. Each chapter fairly short. The story takes place before and during agatb+ra. here's what I think could have gone on between the two of them. Mostly dialogue, paint a picture and go with it.

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"Stop toying with Gemma." There's venom in her tone, something suggesting I back down and I almost do, but then I remember who I am and what I stand for. The Admiral's spoiled little daughter isn't going to order me around.

"I think it's best you stay out of my personal affairs, Miss Worthington."

"Or else?" She laughed a cruel, powerful laugh. "You have your mother ruin me along with my families reputation? I do recall that she has already tried that." Each of her words hit sharply, my mother is the devil herself and I choose to ignore the shameful fact, she knows this and she has used it as ammo against me.

The girl has a pinch of demon in her as well.

"Wrong."

"Then what? I do believe she is the only one with any control in your family."

I snickered under my breath; naive girl. She obviously didn't know me very well. "I think not."

She muttered a sound of triumph and walked away from me, but I'm not ready for our game to end quite yet. She's alluring. Surprisingly challenging. Most of the girls that come my way are a ridiculously easy victory. There's a danger that lingers in the air long after she's gone, and something drawing me toward her.

I suppose that's why I'm tripping my way down the hall after her.

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