TW/DW Fic: Seagull

[nancybrown]

Title: Seagull
Author: nancybrown
Characters/Pairings: Steven, Jack, Alice/Jenny
Rating: PG
Words: 3100
Spoilers/Warnings: COE-compliant (but death is only the beginning, after all)
Beta: eldarwannabe
Summary: Steven Carter grows up.
AN: For eldarwannabe, who asked. The rest of the Intersections series is briefly summarised here. (I'm easing back into writing. Weird things are

Comments

[eldarwannabe]

*tackles everything about this fic with LOVE*

Well, I'll just be super enthusiastic, to make up for the fact that it's entirely possible that I'm the only one that is going to gush. Here goes!

I love the threads (thread in two parts?) of the lost tooth and the startling. The tooth thing is such a good way to begin, very grounded (and everyone has lost a tooth or two, even if we've not died and come back to life to join our mother in time-traveling adventures with her alien girlfriend) and it's a nicely physical thing to relate back to every time you want to mention the feeling of remembering pain or loss. The startling is also pretty physical, for me at least, because I picture poor Steven and Alice and then Jack sort of jerking every time something hits them again.

"Did you die?" he asks her, and she nods her head.

Jenny says, "Everyone we know does, now and then."HILARIOUS FOREVER. It's like the comic-book-esque revolving door of death. This is not a bad thing. Hee

[nancybrown]

Well, I'll just be super enthusiastic, to make up for the fact that it's entirely possible that I'm the only one that is going to gush. Here goes!

You and I are so the only people who are going to read this fic. :)

The startling is also pretty physical, for me at least, because I picture poor Steven and Alice and then Jack sort of jerking every time something hits them again.

I'm glad the physical response worked for you. I run into it with grief when I'm not expecting it. I'll be thinking about someone, and it's this weird shock all over again when I remember that person died.

HILARIOUS FOREVER. It's like the comic-book-esque revolving door of death. This is not a bad thing. Hee. :)

Hee! And it's so a big theme for this storyverse. "Didn't you die?" "Well, yes, but I got better!"

Very happy you liked the story. It's amazing what falls out when I get poked in the brain in just the right way.

[chryssalys]

"You and I are so the only people who are going to read this fic. :)"

Hahahahahaha! You're funny. ;)

Lovely installment, really.

[nancybrown]

I was serious! Gen character piece about secondary characters from Children of Earth, with background femslash! It's like FEEDING the crickets.

Thanks for reading anyway. ;)

[queenfanfiction]

YAY STEVEN. 'nuff said. \o/ <3

[nancybrown]

Hey, you're home! HAVE YOU WATCHED REICHENBACH YET?

(And thanks!)

[queenfanfiction]

Yes I am! AND NO I HAVEN'T. Stoopid .avi to .mp4 conversion lacked audio, gdi. *sigh*

(Been meaning to text, but still no phone. ALACK. I will email you tonight. Maybe. I hope. /o\)

[nancybrown]

On one of your many drives past, drop in for two hours.

Yay email! I can keep up with email, unlike Twitter and Tumblr.

[fide_et_spe]

Oh thanks so much for this, I really needed it with my crazy love for exposition and back stories. I didn't even need to bother you for it! Glad someone else did. It really fills things in, and I love Steven's POV here. Poor Jack, there's something about the way you write his life, it's like the idyllic is actually really melancholy. It reminds me of the way Umberto Eco writes about time and places.

Do I know who the person Alice is looking for? Is it meant to be the trip Ianto takes? Or am I being really thick. I kind of hope it's that because that makes me feel all sad, bless them.

[nancybrown]

I didn't even need to bother you for it!

You could, you know. I owe you at least a couple of fics as thanks for all your help!

Poor Jack, there's something about the way you write his life, it's like the idyllic is actually really melancholy. It reminds me of the way Umberto Eco writes about time and places.

High praise! Thank you. :) In this situation, Jack is experiencing a lot of reopened grief and while he can be the happy-go-lucky flirty adventurer, right now he has multiple grandchildren growing up, and children aging, and reminders of things he thought he'd let go.

Do I know who the person Alice is looking for? Is it meant to be the trip Ianto takes? Or am I being really thick. I kind of hope it's that because that makes me feel all sad, bless them.

You're not being thick, it's left ambiguous on purpose. ;)

Thanks for reading!

[fide_et_spe]

Well, you know, that trip would be one of the things I would love to read about, just saying.

There is this Umberto Eco book I thought of before with this verse when you described Steven and Jack's life. It's called something like "The Island of the Day Before" Years since I read it, and in fact I prefer his other books, but yeah, your writing is evocative of his floaty style.

[nancybrown]

Let me think about it. All I know right now is that the trip was for less than a week, and there was a lot of sex involved. :)

[jedirita]

Lovely. Just lovely lovely lovely.

[nancybrown]

Thank you kindly! :)

[51stcenturyfox]

Oh, so clever and heartbreaking and sweet.

You have all of these bits that I love to bits, too: A yet-to-be, then, one of the perils of never meeting in the right order. <3

[nancybrown]

Thanks! One of my favorite things about writing this series is how nothing happens in the same order for any two people. :)