Ok I split Our Darkest Hour into 14 chapters in the end.

The christmas flashback is in chapter four. So I’m currently pondering. If I post twice a week then that chapter would go up a week before christmas. Hmm.

Also I was doing a ramble plan for this wedding oneshot and I started on this long thing about John’s dad – guy was never mentioned on the show. How do I have headcanon’s about him???

Anyway, I think the detail I’m struggling most with at the moment is who Helen would have as attendants. Given she didn’t have much use for gendered nonsense I’ve always figured she didn’t really have any female friends. Her dad was an only child. Perhaps her mum had family? That could work.

I particularly like the detail about Victorian weddings which say that the best man has to go ahead to “look after the luggage” for the couple’s honeymoon and is the only one that knows where they are going. So helpful for James seeing as he’ll be going with them bwahaha 🙂