Comments | sheepfairy: Fic: Reunion (Dollhouse, DeWitt/Dominic)

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Fic: Reunion (Dollhouse, DeWitt/Dominic)

Jan 23, 2010 16:49

Title: Reunion
Fandom: Dollhouse
Pairing/Characters: DeWitt/Dominic, Whiskey, Priya
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~2,500
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Spoilers through Epitaph One.
Summary: Adelle lets Dominic out of the Attic as she prepares to leave the Dollhouse.
Author's Note: Written for the D/D Celebration Week at dewitt_dominic! It is, uh, late, but ( Read more... )

pairing: dewitt/dominic, fandom: dollhouse, fic

Comments 20

arathesane January 23 2010, 23:09:32 UTC

OMG, this was so awesome! Sorry I can't be more articulate, I'm not feeling very well. You got Adelle down cold. I loved it.

oltha_heri January 23 2010, 23:35:54 UTC

I just need to say, ICON LOVE! The Thick Of It on a Dollhouse fic, it has made me very happy.

arathesane January 23 2010, 23:37:41 UTC

Heh, icon love right back at ya! I adore TTOI!

sheepfairy January 24 2010, 07:54:56 UTC

Thank you so much! I haven't written anything in a while, and writing Adelle is kind of amazing because I love her so much.

oltha_heri January 23 2010, 23:34:35 UTC

I loved that you had Priya in this and how you wrote her. And this whole thing is how it should go. I like him being ridiculously snarky and disobeying orders but still getting her a bottle of vodka.

"You left the house. Again. I can understand your need to see the apocalypse for yourself, but at this point I've begun to wonder if you're suicidal or just a damn idiot,"
This line was so ridiculously in character. I loved it.

He's taken to shadowing her, which is occasionally comforting when she manages to forget everything that's happened in the past few years.
OH, that hurt.

sheepfairy January 26 2010, 03:14:33 UTC

Thank you so much! I kind of love Priya and want to shove her into everything, and I think since she was in the Attic herself she'd be a good choice to help wake him up out of it. And I love writing Adelle being snappy!

1 dollsome January 23 2010, 23:51:06 UTC

OH GOSH, THIS IS GOOD. ♥ It's got this overall tone of brisk matter-of-factness that is so suited to Adelle and to Dominic; I love that.

Crazy list time!

+ The overall depiction of Whiskey/Claire is so eerie, the way she's kind of just slipping away into Whiskey again -- eep.

+ Priya sighs and finally looks up at her. "If I were you, I'd watch my back. He's really pissed."

"It's not as if I was expecting a smile and a kiss on the cheek," says Adelle. She doesn't need Priya to state the obvious for her.

ADELLE, YOU ARE THE BOMB. UNSURPRISING, BUT STILL AWESOME.

+ "But I'm starting to think that was a bad idea, because I don't think he wanted protection from whatever's out there. I think he wanted it to deal with you."

Gah, I just love all of this! It's so cool to get a set-up for the Epitaph One Scene o' Glory.

+ What she hadn't been prepared for was, "Sorry, he left. But we're fairly certain he's coming back because he indicated that he would really like to kill you."ADELLE, YOU ARE MY SNARKY HERO ( ... )

Re: 1 sheepfairy January 26 2010, 04:26:53 UTC

Awww, thank you so much ♥! I am so glad you liked it!

I love writing Whiskey, because there is just unlimited potential for both niceness and incredibly creepiness. Because with all of the other dolls it feels like at the end of the day we gets hints of who they were originally even when they're imprinted, but with all of Whiskey's imprints it's just... more Whiskey.

AWWW, AND YOU PULLED OUT ALL THOSE ADELLE LINES I WAS SO PROUD OF MYSEL FOR ♥! And every time I talk about her recently, I want to make a really terrible pun about how her name is DeWitt and she is so witty, but then I feel too much like Topher so I stop myself!

I love their dialogue in this so much. It's this weird combination of brutally caustic and strangely civil, or a parody of civil, that is just so them.Aww, thank you so much! I like the idea of them, post-Attic, slipping back into this sort of vaguely professional and civil relationship that that is their traditional way of communicating, and yet with all of their incredible anger issues coming up and ( ... )

2 dollsome January 23 2010, 23:51:23 UTC

+ trying very hard to keep herself to the sincere soft voice you speak to dolls with.

Again, detail! I'm sorry I keep blathering on about details. but yours are so good!

+ I love the phrase "snaps the last of Adelle's patience clean in half." That just sounds like her.

+ And if anyone should be left to watch over this place it should be Adelle, but she has never been prone to self-sacrifice.

AUGH, ADELLE. Again, just so spot-on.

+ She tries very hard not look back as they leave her house in search of safe haven.

I love how you specify 'her' house, the implicit tiny glint of sorrow there.

+ AND THIS LAST SCENE, WHICH IS SUCH PERFECTION, OH GOSH.

+ "And honestly, Adelle, I would have been fine with you just letting me die."

"It wouldn't have been fine with me," she says.Them! Them! Them! This is another one of those exchanges that I would possibly sell my soul for to see on the show, it's perfect. It's so spot-on in terms of their post-Attic dynamic; you never even verge on getting sappy or sentimental, and it just packs such ( ... )

Re: 2 sheepfairy January 26 2010, 04:45:04 UTC

ALSO HAVE I MENTIONED HOW RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING GETTING A TWO PART COMMENT IS? It's like Christmas.

I love how you specify 'her' house, the implicit tiny glint of sorrow there.

Ah, thank you! One of my favorite things about Adelle is how amazingly possessive she is of the Dollhouse and all of the people inside it.

And I'm so glad you liked the ending, it's where I actually started writing and I'm so glad it worked ♥

ladyvivien January 24 2010, 14:02:32 UTC

Oh god, that was PERFECT. I loved how you nailed Whiskey/Claire's deterioration, and it's true - Dominic DOES have a petty streak. The ending is perfect and bittersweet and totally them.

sheepfairy January 26 2010, 04:46:29 UTC

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed writing Whiskey in this, I'm glad it came across well for people.