Fic: Having You (1/1)

[dreigiau]

Title: Having You
Fandom: Murder Call
Characters: Tessa Vance, Steve Hayden
Prompt: 004. Insides
Word Count: 1949
Rating: Mature (R)
Summary: After the events of “Dead Offerings” and their mutual revelations, things go straight to the gutter. Sequel to Losing You and Gaining You. (This one's for tempe_brennandr, who kind of requested it. I wasn't difficult to ask

Comments

[tempe_brennandr]

*dumps bucket of icy water over self* wow!!! That was amazing!! I loved the lead up with Tessa feeling almost rejected by Steve. In a way, if I hadn't read the tags or anything like that, I never would have guessed where it was heading! Bravo!!
Now I'm off to read your other stuff! Yay!!

[dreigiau]

Thanks so much! Such a joy to write for someone who enjoys reading my little stories! This idea was born after both reading two of my older fics here on LJ, plus the sorta-request to get some sexy tiems for T/S. :D (And as you know, it spawned more of the same stuff, really! LOL.) It's also nice to bring new life to older stuff. It's like acknowledging them and letting them fly again. :)

[tempe_brennandr]

You're most welcome!! And I'm quite enjoying everything that you're writing. All the highs and lows plus everything in between for Tessa and Steve (especially the smutt!! *snigger*)
It's amazing what your older stuff can spawn, I know myself with one of my City Homicide fics, I actually got up to about chapter 8 and reread it after almost a year or so then decided to rewrite it and it turned out a whole lot better!
Bahahaha well I don't mind reading the smutt! It kinda spurs me along in my own writing if something isn't making much sense to me, so it's refreshing to read something that isn't your own instead of rereading the same thing over and over a million times to the point where you get so fed up with it you just give up on it.
But yes, in a way you are giving them back their wings again so they can fly off together and live happily ever after ;P

[dreigiau]

That makes me really happy! I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be this many T/S fics out there if you hadn't prompted me for the past year or so. It really sparked something and now I'm actually pretty close to finishing the 100-fic challenge

[tempe_brennandr]

I know what you mean. I'm slowly working on the 30 years fic so you might see some changes and additions.
I've also written another short for that 100 words (which sometimes turns into more! LOL) drabbles. It's a little strange my new addition, I'll have to share the docco with you so you can read. I'm just slowly getting my brain moving using my 100 word drabbles. 100 words is easy to get me back into it. Just little things are starting to spark stuff. It could be a song on the radio, a conversation that I've overheard, something on a TV show, or just something I've triggered myself in something I've done or seen.

I've got this idea rattling around in my head of them walking from work down to Circular Quay and having ice cream or coffee or something. I could end up putting it into my 30 years fic. Only time will tell :).

[dreigiau]

Sounds like a good exercise to get yourself back on track! I like to do those shorts too. Sometimes they're easier than longer fics where you actually have to develop a larger plot... ;) I'll have a look at that document tomorrow! Looking forward to it! I've been swamped lately with work and a bad back, and it's probably going to continue all the way to Christmas break... :/ Sigh, it's periods like this that make me want to make a career change. Lol.

Ice cream/coffee scene sounds nice. We don't really see them do that sort of mundane stuff, so I love it! Those mundane stuff are actually stuff I struggle with sometimes because Norwegians don't really do the whole "date" routine. There's no pomp and circumstance, mostly just hanging out as friends that may or may not end up as something more. Some Norwegian relationships also start with one-night stands, apparently....not that I'd know! Lol. I've always just transitioned from friends to something more. :) (But apparently a lot of people hook up on a night out and then get together

[tempe_brennandr]

Yeah it helps, even if I just jot down something that comes to me.

Oh I know what you mean about developing a larger plot line... sometimes you know exactly where you're going and other times you're left scratching your head halfway through cause your muse ran off with the postie (mail man/woman)!!!

Yes the mundane is good, shows they're human, just like us. And it's a good addition if you get stuck in something along the way. Like I kinda see my 30 years fic as a heap of one shots that have been bunched together and had a plot line threaded throughout. I know that there's a plot happening in the background and so do the readers, but the main focus is the foreground and what's happening there. I hope I haven't just confused you!! Hahaha

???????????? That is just... weird?? Hahaha and kinda funny too! None of this whole get to know each other before falling into bed together... sounds like a bad daytime soap!! LOL

[dreigiau]

Haha, no, I'm not confused! That's usually been the basis for my stories in the last few years, even my Stargate fanfiction novel. I prefer timeskips between chapters, or just grouping a bunch of oneshots and scenes together to form a story of sorts. Don't know why I've started doing this, exactly, but I know that sometimes, if I try to write chapter-by-chapter in a way where the events follow each other directly, I either get carried away or get stumped. By adding timeskips between scenes and chapters, I allow myself some wriggle room and don't necessarily have to show all the steps between A and B. Does that make sense? It might be something I've picked up from television shows. I reckon my style is almost episodic in nature, but that each "episode" build upon each other rather than resetting between each of them. (If that makes sense