Title: Pillars of the House
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 791
Content notes: set during Shocks for the Chalet School. 
Author notes: Am I picturing Hilda/Nell being a thing here? Yes. Does Rosalie textually think "the Abbess is missing Bill" in this book? Also yes!
Summary: Miss Annersley and Rosalie Dene decide their costume for the prefects' party. 


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Title: Moonlight becomes you (it goes with your hair)
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 865 words
Content notes: Set after "The Chalet School and Rosalie". Hilda/Nell. Title borrowed from the song, and the ffw_social post!
Summary: After the end of term, Nell and Hilda take a moonlight stroll.

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Title: That Awful Night
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 817 words
Content notes: Set during "Gay From China at The Chalet School". Title is from Nell's line "I shall never forget that awful night when she lay between night and death, and I knew quite well that no one thought she would see the morning."
Author notes: sneaking in before the deadline I hope!
Summary: "Nell had caught snatches of the doctors’ hurried conversations, seen the looks on the nurses’ faces when she asked for news, knew enough about head injuries; she could guess how desperate Hilda’s case was."
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Title: Arithmetic
Fandom: Chalet School series - E. M. Brent-Dyer
Rating: G
Length: 918 words
Content notes: set around the beginning of "The Chalet School Goes To It/At War".
Summary: "Nell took the projections, but didn’t read them immediately. Instead, she looked at Hilda with her most innocent expression, the one Hilda had long ago learned to mistrust. “May I ask who did the maths?”"

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Title: A Proper Ending
Fandom: Chalet School series
Rating: G
Length: 1351 words
Content notes: Pairings: Hilda Annersley/Nell Wilson
Author notes: This is what happens when I read Susan Pevensie meta... Also, Hilda and Nell would definitely have read the Narnia books!
Summary: Hilda and Nell read The Last Battle, and disagree with the ending.

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Title: Would Have Mattered
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 1513 words
Content notes: Set during "Lavender Laughs at the Chalet School".
Author notes: Implied previous Nell Wilson / Con Stewart relationship. Hilda and Nell are just friends here (though Hilda may or may not have some unacknowledged feelings for Nell).
Summary: Nell thought it wouldn't have mattered if she'd died on the crossing from Guernsey. Hilda disagreed.

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Title: Choosing a Successor
Fandom: Chalet School series - Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Rating: G
Length: 1160 words
Content notes: Set just before "Challenge for the Chalet School".
Summary: Hilda and Nell decide who Hilda's replacement as Head will be while she's on her educational tour.

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Title: A Confusion of Charlies
Fandom: Chalet School series
Rating: G
Length: 200 words
Author notes: This is a fine example of trying to be too clever for one's own good (and thereby missing challenge deadlines! ;) )- a double drabble, composed of two linked drabbles, about two 'Charlies'.
Summary: There were two 'Charlies' who taught History at the Chalet School.

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Title: A Cello's Tale
Fandom: Chalet School series - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Rating: G
Length: 329 words
Content notes: set during "Gay from China at the Chalet School".
Author notes: I... have just written a story from a cello's point of view. What have you done to me, fan_flashworks?
Summary: A cello's release from storage to be a comfort to a grieving girl.

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Title: Reasons to Buy Shoes
Fandom: Chalet School series
Rating: G
Length: 1564 words
Content notes: Set after "New Mistress at the Chalet School". Pre Nancy/Kathie.
Summary: "There were, Kathie was quite sure, far worse reasons to buy shoes you couldn’t actually walk in than the fact someone you liked had offered to lend you an arm while you wore them."

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Title: Horse and Carriage?
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 1338 words
Content notes: Set right after chapter 1 of "The Chalet School Reunion".
Author notes: The title comes from the Frank Sinatra song, "Love and Marriage". Though they don't use the terms themselves (I don't think they'd actually have known them!), I'm picturing Rosalie as asexual and aromantic, and Peggy as bisexual.
Summary: “Rosalie, why is it you’ve never married?” (Jo Maynard, A Chalet School Reunion, Elinor Brent-Dyer).
Rosalie Dene and Peggy Burnett discuss marriage.

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Title: Forlorn
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: PG
Length: 679 words
Content notes: Pre-series.Set soon after Nell's family's deaths. Femslash, Nell Wilson/OFC.
Author notes: It may technically be a Christmas story, but it is not in any way shape or form cheerful. Also written for Lime Green Musing's December 2013 topic of "Christmas at home".
Summary:  "Nell sipped gloomily at her whisky - a generous measure, a Christmas gift from the friendly bartender, and already more than half gone - and wondered why she had ever thought coming to London was a good plan."

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Title: Boating
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 358 words
Content notes: Set during "The Chalet School and Jo".
Author notes: I was re-reading "The Chalet School and Jo", and found myself puzzled by what seemed to be a minor EBD-ism in a conversation between Madge Russell and Miss Annersley, where Miss Annersley says she's going to work for half an hour before going boating with the others, has a five minute (if that) phone conversation with Madge, then rings off with the claim that the others will be waiting for her, and runs off to the lake! This fic is an attempt to explain that discrepancy.

Summary: Even Miss Annersley can be irresponsible at times.

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Title: Co-Heads
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 544 words
Content notes: Set during "The Chalet School and Rosalie".
Author notes: for the "Teamwork" challenge.
Summary: "Rosalie Dene tapped on the library door, then grinned as the call to come in was made by both Heads together."

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Title: Bathing Habits
Fandom: The Chalet School
Rating: M
Length: 1383 words
Content notes: set during the Easter holidays between “Tom Tackles the Chalet School” and “The Chalet School and Rosalie”. Established Hilda Annersley/Nell Wilson relationship.
Author notes: I read the prompt, and the specific inclusion of bathing… and my plotbunnnies jumped into the gutter and refused to leave. It’s the first time I’ve written anything this adult, so all comments will be very much appreciated!
Summary: "“As for being intimately acquainted with your bathing habits… Perhaps I could help you?” Nell asked tentatively."


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Title: Snowbound
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: PG
Length: 472 words
Content notes: Set during the Swiss years. Kathie Ferrars / Nancy Wilmot
Author notes: Also written for the August 2013 prompt (Holidays) at Lime Green Musing.
Summary: Trapped in their hotel by a blizzard, Nancy and Kathie are becoming bored.

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Title: Swiss Mail
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 1775 words
Content notes: Set during "The Chalet School in the Oberland".
Author notes: Thanks to xsabrix for betaing!
Summary: Letters between Hilda and Nell.

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Title: Pretence of Decorum
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 1100 words
Content Notes: set during "New Mistress at the Chalet School".
Author's Notes: Thanks to xsabrix for beta-ing.
Summary: Hilda tells Nell about Mrs Pertwee's visit.

( "... and then, if you'll believe it, she calmly told me that I could have no idea of the weight attached to being responsible for the care and well-being of young creatures!" Hilda Annersley said, and her guest sat bolt upright in her armchair. )