Fic: Eagle of the Ninth (bunn)

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Title: The White Hare
Author: bunn
Artist: xandromedovna
Fandom: Eagle of the Ninth
Characters/Pairings: Marcus Flavius Aquila, Esca, Cottia, Cassius
Rating/Category: G/Gen (A male and a female character are married as in canon, but the story does not focus primarily on their relationship.)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Word Count: 20423
Warnings none
Summary:
In second century Roman Britain, Marcus Flavius Aquila retired to the Downland farm with his freed slave Esca and wife Cottia. But life on the farm seems dull after his adventures recovering the Eagle of the Ninth. He returns to Isca Dumnoniorum, where an old friend talks him into taking an unusual job. Before long he finds himself deep in trouble...

Link to fic master post:AO3 LJ
Link to art master post:tbc

Have been writing this for over two years, and have finally completed it thanks to smallfandombang, without which deadline I suspect I would never have got the damn thing finished. Kindly and very helpfully beta'd by carmarthen and hedgebird.