Tucked away inside your sleeves -- 2.3

[sansunparapluie]

Sixty-two miles; Jinki/Taemin; PG-13
note: Meant to mostly write this as the way Taemin experiences things; somehow moved away from that more than I expected in this portion of the story.

1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | int. i | 2.1 | 2.2 | part 2.3

Comments

[effi_g]

*sigh* as brilliant as all the other chapters

[sansunparapluie]

♥

I try. I mean I'm still working with pretty archetypal characters and using very standard plot progression, but I try to pick some of the simpler/slightly understated moments. And I definitely try to be scientifically and medically correct, haha, so that people who know better don't have to suspend their disbelief. (Health professional! Cool :'D) Stuff like the portrayal of coma patients is already done poorly enough in popular media.

I don't know what people will think of how I approach the rest of what happens, but I promise I won't deus ex machina my way out of the problem that Jinki's facing (and Taemin in part as well). I can see it now! His long lost uncle shows up and he's a billionaire so he takes care of everything lol no. There are easy ways to get out of such a predicament and then there are the little things that could possibly go a long way.

The little things. That reminds me that I have a sequel to an Onho story that I said I'd write half a year ago but never did...

[effi_g]

You are so right!! I don't think the general public has any real idea of how a coma patient is treated. It's always so glorified, and the patients are so very perfectly placed on the bed with no hair out of place. They don't realise that family often go in every day to groom their family members to give them that small ounce of dignity, and that the nurses have to care for them every other moment of the day. They don't know about the tubes and machines, and worst of all, they don't know the liklihodd of someone waking and being perfectly fine. So yes I definitely appreciate it :P When I read things that I know are incorrect it makes it hard to stay engaged in the story line, it looses it's flow. Btw I'm an occupational therapist ^^ yay me! still only a new one though

[sansunparapluie]

Someone who knows and agrees! /high five xD

[sansunparapluie]

Oh, haha. Guess I should have replied here instead. Oops...

But yes, Taemin has lent out both a shoulder and a hand~ Once I'm done (maybe a few months from now, given the snail-like pace at which I've been updating), I think I'm gonna go back and count how many times I used the word 'okay'/'fine'. And 'hand'/'finger'/'fingertips' too. xD

[sansunparapluie]

Merry Christmas, although it's not Christmas anymore by LJ time. xD