In the Details (R)
Fandom: THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Pairing: Mark/Eduardo
Length: 9900 words
Author on LJ: grim_lupine
Why this must be read: followed her from GK to X:FC. She is more know for another fic, but this is my favorite of her. This is a little post-dep, domestic fic, with several POV (yes, I really like them). Romantic and sweet, but not over the top.
Here is the difference between the Mark that was, and the Mark that came after:
Mark-pre-rift, pre-loneliness, pre-stupid-decisions-that-lost-him-so-much, pre-comprehension- only saw the big things. He saw only what was unavoidable, what was impossible to miss, what people would push in his face with their words and their actions and their too-large-to-ignore anger. Mark missed details.
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The Mark of now is smarter than that, by choice. By necessity. This Mark is the one who saw Eduardo looking at him at an event and, instead of wondering what it meant, noticed: the absence of tension in the line of his body, the tilt of his head that was an invitation of a kind. This Mark is not the same person he was at nineteen, and maybe Eduardo had seen that, like he’d seen everything in Mark once (Mark wonders if that was a part of what hurt Eduardo so badly then; a betrayal of himself, when he’d thought he’d known everything there was in Mark, better than anyone else could, and he’d been blindsided all the same).
This Mark found it easy to say I’m sorry and I missed you and mean it; and if he was still apologizing not for what he’d done but how he did it, for the fact that he didn’t see all the ways in which it would break Eduardo, he thought Eduardo knew that, and understood it, and took it as no less sincere.
In the Details (AO3)
Pairing: Mark/Eduardo
Length: 9900 words
Author on LJ: grim_lupine
Why this must be read: followed her from GK to X:FC. She is more know for another fic, but this is my favorite of her. This is a little post-dep, domestic fic, with several POV (yes, I really like them). Romantic and sweet, but not over the top.
Here is the difference between the Mark that was, and the Mark that came after:
Mark-pre-rift, pre-loneliness, pre-stupid-decisions-that-lost-him-so-much, pre-comprehension- only saw the big things. He saw only what was unavoidable, what was impossible to miss, what people would push in his face with their words and their actions and their too-large-to-ignore anger. Mark missed details.
[...]
The Mark of now is smarter than that, by choice. By necessity. This Mark is the one who saw Eduardo looking at him at an event and, instead of wondering what it meant, noticed: the absence of tension in the line of his body, the tilt of his head that was an invitation of a kind. This Mark is not the same person he was at nineteen, and maybe Eduardo had seen that, like he’d seen everything in Mark once (Mark wonders if that was a part of what hurt Eduardo so badly then; a betrayal of himself, when he’d thought he’d known everything there was in Mark, better than anyone else could, and he’d been blindsided all the same).
This Mark found it easy to say I’m sorry and I missed you and mean it; and if he was still apologizing not for what he’d done but how he did it, for the fact that he didn’t see all the ways in which it would break Eduardo, he thought Eduardo knew that, and understood it, and took it as no less sincere.
In the Details (AO3)