Title: Lost
Fandom: The Marriage of Figaro
Length: 200
Rating: G
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author note: This is also a fill for the Hot Water square on my bingo card.
Summary: Barbarina has lost the pin the Count gave her to give to her cousin Susanna.




Barbarina has lost the pin the Count gave her to give to her cousin Susanna. This is the seal of the pines, he said. Tell Susanna that, and don’t say anything to anyone else. Barbarina didn’t know what he meant by the seal of the pines, but she curtseyed dutifully and took the pin. And now she’s lost it, and she’s going to be in so much trouble.

The Count is already angry because Barbarina made him give her Cherubino as a husband, to save the poor boy from having to go off to be a soldier.

Cherubino’s a dear, so sweet and bashful. Pretty as a girl. It had been fun to dress him up like that, and then something more than fun. It made her heart pound. Cherubino liked the dressing-up too. His eyes were dark with it, his cheeks flushed.

When they are married, she will make him wear her clothes, and she’ll put on his. It’s the Countess that Cherubino really loves, everyone knows that. But he’s Barbarina’s now, and she’s going to have such fun playing with him.

If only the Count doesn’t change his mind again. If only she can find that wretched pin.