The Art of Having Friends - (The Troop, Haydence)

[bcrebel]

Title: The Art of Having Friends
Pairing: Haydence: Hayley Steele/Cadence Nash
Rating: T
Summary: Hayley knows she's what passes for Cadence's best friend, but a girl like Cadence doesn't really know how to have friends and a girl like Hayley doesn't have any idea how to be friends with a girl like Cadence.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Troop,

Comments

[thefantasmickah]

Omg I love thisss.

Especially this line They run into each other at school and around Lakewood and they argue, they fight, they laugh at ridiculous things, and Hayley has more fun than she can ever remember having and so what if she can't put a solid label on whatever the hell she and Cadence are to each other. Because I feel like that is exactly what it is.

And I like that this is Hayley's perspective.

And that you keep bringing up the "best...whatever" sort of idea that keeps playing with the not knowing really what they are. They just know that they're Cadence and Hayley and maybe, just maybe, that's okay.

<3

[bcrebel]

I'm really happy that that bit stood out to you, the idea there came to me the other night when I was planning this fic out while trying to get to sleep, and I was a bit sleep deprived and going through their conversation when that came up and I kind of stepped back and thought 'Damn, this is getting really dark.' But that's the way I see Cadence in a more realistic light, I imagine she's probably killed people in her past. Also the idea that monsters are for the most part powerfully malevolent and straight up evil makes a lot of sense to me, considering that these monsters all seem to have varying degrees of sentience and yet a group of high school kids is running around killing them indiscriminately