tanaqui: con for my story Manifest Destiny, showing an upset Jake being comforted (manifest destiny)
tanaqui ([personal profile] tanaqui) wrote in [community profile] jerichofanfiction2012-04-09 03:15 pm

Fic: Manifest Destiny - Teen - Jake/Heather + Hawkins

Title: Manifest Destiny
Author: [personal profile] tanaquific
Rating: Teen
Characters: Jake Green, Heather Lisinksi, Robert Hawkins, ensemble cast
Contains: some period-appropriate attitudes and language; canonical character death
Word count: 29,200
Summary: Written for [livejournal.com profile] history_bigbang. Kansas, 1855. At a time of turmoil in the Kansas Territory, with pro-slavery and free-state settlers clashing violently, Jake Green unexpectedly arrives back at the home of his estranged family in the frontier town of Jericho. On the run from trouble further West, he is planning to pay only a brief visit to claim the inheritance left to him by his grandfather, but finds himself drawn in to staying to defend the town from the escalating violence. Amid the fighting, and as the danger increases, he finds himself growing closer to one of the new settlers, a schoolteacher called Heather Lisinski. Meanwhile, he crosses paths with Robert Hawkins, who claims to be a trading agent for an Ohio factory owner, but who seems to have an agenda of his own….

Art by: [livejournal.com profile] queenmidalah

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