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15 minutes of fame

Sep 27, 2011 10:28

There will be no freeze until after the conferences are over, should you want a freeze at all.

The usual things:

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 ( Read more... )

prompting: 15

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anonymous November 11 2011, 21:54:20 UTC

Inspired by this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whizz-kidz/6302062723/

Andy in a wheelchair (permanently or temporarily).

anonymous March 27 2012, 17:10:56 UTC

I'm on it. 1300 words into a fill.

anonymous March 27 2012, 17:12:23 UTC

*random person who is still tracking this post*

RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED. *cheerleads*

Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (1/?) anonymous March 27 2012, 21:34:05 UTC

AA so happy to post some part of a fill that there's a threading fail. Oops.It's the phone call Ed's subconsciously been waiting for for as long as he's been with Andy, although it's only now that it's happened that he realises it ( ... )

Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (2/?) anonymous March 27 2012, 21:38:36 UTC

The doctor smiles, briefly, acknowledging the tension in the air and Yvette's attempts to dispel it ( ... )

Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (3/?) anonymous March 28 2012, 20:11:50 UTC

Andy's awake, barely. He's having difficulty focussing on anything much, so Ed places himself right in the middle of his view, so he can't be ignored. The eyelashes - those eyelashes - close slowly and flutter open again. It's a faint reminder of normality, but Ed will take what he can get right now. Particularly when Andy speaks, Scouse accent more pronounced than usual, but also sounding drunk.

"Where am I?"

Yvette pokes Ed, hard, in the ribs.

"In the hozzie, mate."

Horribly, Andy just looks confused, rather than pointing and laughing at Ed's useless mimicry as he normally would.

"What happened?"

Yvette swims into his view. "You were driving a car, for charity, and crashed it into a wall."

"Did they still get the money?" Andy eventually manages.

It takes them five minutes to interpret what he's trying to say, but when they do Ed and Yvette grin minutely at each other. That's their Andy. He's still in there, whatever hurdles there might yet be to overcome. And there will be many, God knows.

~~~
The first crisis ( ... )

Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (4/?) anonymous March 28 2012, 20:50:41 UTC

"What do we do?"

"I don't think we can do anything much," measures Yvette. "This is going to be his battle to fight."

"But we can help him?" implores Ed, impotently. "Surely?"

Yvette shakes her head slowly. "I doubt it. He's going to have to find his own way."

"But we love him!"

"I know. Who ever said life was going to be fair?"

~~~

Yvette's predictions come all too accurately true over the next few weeks. The medics are so concerned that they are muttering "another psych consult?" in corners when Ed and Yvette visit ( ... )

Re: Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (4/?) anonymous March 28 2012, 21:34:44 UTC

Andy needs success to believe in his own worth.

It's heartbreaking how you've pinpointed the exact feeling here. I hate the idea of Andy dismantling his life and how Ed's hurting and Yvette's keeping a cool calm over her panic. Can't wait to read more!

Re: Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (4/?) anonymous March 29 2012, 20:30:26 UTC

(AA)

Don't worry, I'm torturing myself just as much as my readers (and my characters), even though I'm fairly sure there will be a happy ending!

Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (5/?) anonymous March 29 2012, 16:27:10 UTC

Yvette takes to visiting Andy on her own. It upsets Ed too much to see this broken shadow of the man he loves. He still hasn't got round to telling Andy how much he loves him, and he's starting to wonder whether he ever will. Andy's not in a place to hear it right now, and Yvette isn't sure that he ever will be ( ... )

OP anonymous March 29 2012, 18:23:07 UTC

Thank you thank you thank you for writing this, and for putting it in the old prompts thread - I'd almost forgotten I'd prompted it!

It's really heart-breaking...I feel so sorry for all three of them. I can't help but hope it gets better though.

Looking forward to more.

Re: OP anonymous March 29 2012, 19:26:43 UTC

(AA)

It will get better, I promise ... but it'll get worse first. (But don't worry about Yvette!)

anonymous March 29 2012, 20:20:23 UTC

The results of her blood tests aren't exactly what Yvette was expecting. Yes, she is rather anaemic, but the other result is the one that floors her. She's not sure quite how to break the news to Ed.

He's, finally, getting a decent night's sleep once a week thanks to the Zopiclone. For once in his pig-headed life, he'd been strangely grateful to go to the doctors, and to accept that he might need help. He's even agreed to go to counselling to discuss the recurring nightmare of being there at Silverstone (Yvette blames the media for broadcasting footage of the crash over and over and over again) but being completely unable to lift a finger to stop it, or even to rush to Andy's side after it happened. For now, while he's waiting, he's grateful for that one night in seven free from the nightmares.

So Yvette doesn't want to upset the applecart. And obviously she can't talk to Andy about it. In the end she sends Ed an anonydne text: Referred to hospital for scan. Nothing to worry about. Y.xxx It's cringeworthy, but she imagines ( ... )

^^^ Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (6/?) anonymous March 29 2012, 20:22:36 UTC

The above should have had that as a title.

anonymous March 30 2012, 12:49:21 UTC

Oh, such a development! Can't wait to read more.

Fill: Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again (7/?) anonymous March 30 2012, 13:24:56 UTC

It's another fortnight before Ed can cope with going to see Andy.

He hasn't seen him for a while now - he's vaguely known, but not wanted to know, that Yvette was visiting him on a daily basis - and he's shocked by the change even from the pathetic figure he last saw.

Andy's sat in a wheelchair in a dirty shirt, and tracky bottoms, and his eyes are glazed over like he really wants to be watching Jeremy Kyle. He's put on weight - anathema to Andy - and it's like suddenly watching through a time warp what Andy might look like in forty or fifty years time, when they're all in their dotage.

But it's real. It's now. It's Andy at 42.

Andy hasn't seen Ed, which is just as well because Ed is furious. The nearest hapless nurse becames the victim of his ire.

"What have you done to Andy?" he demands. "He might be paralysed, but he doesn't have dementia ( ... )

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