Cloud no. 9

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1) All fills for prompts of the earlier prompt posts go in the post the prompt was posted in. No re-posting or splitting up prompts and fills.
2) Self-prompt when you post unprompted fic. (This means posting what the fill is about in a first comment, like a real prompt, and commenting on that with your fill.)
3) Try not to get too srs business.

Comments

Future Miliwoe

[anonymous]

Prompt born after listening to EMil's devastating interview on Jeremy Vine (Ed I can't take much more of this, please learn to stand up for yourself):

Ed loses the leadership some years down the road. By then it's too late for David to stand. They never reconciled.

A (uncharacteristically) drunk Ed calls David from a shit motel in the middle of nowhere. David reluctantly comes to him.

So zen mending of brotherly fences? Massive angsty fight? Needy desperate fuck? All or none of the above?

Re: Future Miliwoe

[anonymous]

My rl brain is actually praying this never comes to pass. And I don't pray. :'(
That interview was horrid. He was just so unbelievably patient...Or a doormat. Vine was just so... rude? (All I can console myself with is, 4 years left, and he's playing the long and quiet game, the same way he did the leadership race. And if it worked then... David can't help but come round eventually, right? The media just love stirring, right?)

My fic brain, on the other hand? Is yelling 'yah! Seconded! Want!'

Re: Future Miliwoe

[anonymous]

I have a cast iron stomach and even I stopped it halfway through because I was cringing so violently that I was worried something important might rupture.

Re: Future Miliwoe

[anonymous]

... Seconded.
But oh my, my, my... that interview.

I just wanted to give him a massive hug and tell him they were all horrible meanies. :(

Fill 1/2

[anonymous]

When the phone call comes he’s angry at Ed. Angry because he’s ringing so late, and angry because he can’t say no, though it’s what Ed deserves. Ed’s sobbing into the handset, words slurring, one into the other, so it takes him long minutes just to coax Ed into telling him where he is.

Louise doesn’t ask him where he’s going, because they aren’t speaking either, and he drums his fingers against the steering wheel, restless. It’s not like Ed to lose control, of his temper or his senses, and David remembers seething with badly concealed jealousy as a child where, when the situation was reversed, Ed would breezily shake his hand and tell him that losing to him was never a bad thing

Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

“You always came to me when you were jealous,” Ed says, and there’s a hint of laughter, hysterical, at the edges. “So I did it deliberately. Did you know that, David?” Ed meets his gaze, holds it, daring him to come to the right conclusion. He sits beside Ed, heavily, and when his lips refuse to form words, Ed shifts closer and says, “I wish I hadn’t. Everything’s in such a mess

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

owwww there goes my heart

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

This was sad but lovely, anon. :)
I loved it.

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

Utterly heartbreaking, anon. <3

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

and he can hear his father’s voice as he placed Ed in his arms for the first time, telling him how lucky he was to have been brought a best friend for Christmas.

This line near broke my heart. It was beautiful. Thankyou, authoranon.

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

:D I cannibalised that line from another fill I was working on which was going nowhere - I'm glad it's not just me who likes it.

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

Was it an 08 prompt? about David thinking his brother came from Santa Claus? Because I think I prompted that *waves excitedly*

Re: Fill 2/2

[anonymous]

“I wanted to hurt you,” David says, without meaning to. “But I didn’t want you to hurt like this.”

No lie, I whimpered.
Excellent fill anon!