Comments | shelbecat: FIC: Santa Street

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FIC: Santa Street

Dec 21, 2007 14:38

Title: Santa Street
Author: shelbecat
Pairing: Billy, Jason, Tim
Rating: T (aka PG-13)
Summary: Jason brings Christmas to Billy and Tim.

( The brothers have never been great at celebrating the holidays, but Billy figures what he lacks in holiday cheer he makes up for in alcohol-and that always seems to put a smile on Tim's face. )

fic, fnl

Comments 12

1407graymalkin December 21 2007, 18:14:16 UTC

*bursts into tears*

I swear to God it's the meds. I'm not crying, I'm not *SOBS HARDCORE*

shelbecat December 21 2007, 21:01:01 UTC

Best. Reaction. Ever.

Thank you, Tylenol 3s, thank you.

chelseafrew December 21 2007, 18:46:00 UTC

That was beautiful. I do love how you write the Riggins boys. And I like how you imagine their Christmas being. All 3 of the guys are totally in character--and I love how close Jason and Tim are here.

Thank you so much for continuing to write in this fandom. Happy Holidays!

shelbecat December 21 2007, 21:00:31 UTC

Thanks for the great feedback! I'm a sucker for Riggins boys any day of the year - Christmas just gives me leeway to be that much more angsty.

Happy Holidays to you as well!

sisredlo December 21 2007, 21:11:58 UTC

Oh! This is...it's like the FNL version of Charlie Brown's Christmas! Tim as Chuck and Jay as Linus and I think Billy would have to be Lucy, weirdly enough.

I really like your Billy - he would definitely only see the negatives for Jay until he got hit upside the head with proof that Jay's not useless. Beautiful work!

shelbecat December 21 2007, 21:15:38 UTC

Fabulous fb!!! LOL! I never thought of it that way, but I think you have a very good point :)

I worried about Billy coming across as crass, but I think that's the way he really would be until he learned otherwise (and it would take a hit up side the head to knock it into Billy for sure!).

Thanks!

treehero December 21 2007, 21:24:06 UTC

I wonder if Tim ever got the chance to sit in a Santa's lap? Love the detail in this. Especially the "there's a few white bulbs amongst the red and green ones where the paint had chipped off." That is so true! I remember those from my childhood! Took me a second to get used to Billy's verbalizing his crassness. I always thought of him as "internally crass." :) But the best part is the role you have Jason play in this whole scenario. He is so good for Tim because he doesn't have to live by excuses or by how people knew him any more. He actually had the chance to be reborn, and he's making the best of it. And, in doing that, he's helping others be better. Tim hasn't yet had something *entirely* new happen to him to force that kind of change. At least not in the real FNL 'verse (I'm sorry, Ferret Face doesn't cut it). And, actually, I hope he doesn't have as jarring a change as Jason did, because Tim's just about full up with pain -- a kind of growing rolling wave of it. Jay can bring change to Tim in a way Tim can handle without ( ... )

shelbecat December 21 2007, 21:42:45 UTC

Santa's lap...good question! You think he'd ever do it on a dare now? Write it! Write it!

I agree with your Tim analysis (all the time). He's just so tragic. I don't think he could handle much more pain, or an event as life-altering as Jason's, but he can get through minor changes with Jason's (and Billy's) help.

rachel_wilder December 21 2007, 21:30:46 UTC

You fancy yourself as a Tim specialist, but honestly, you have the corner on the Billy market.

I love seeing Tim and Jason's relationship through Billy's eyes--in many ways it's our way to be able to see how much of Dillon sees the boys rather than how we do.

Amazing, as always...

shelbecat December 21 2007, 21:44:39 UTC

Are you saying I can't write Tim!?! LOL! I do love Billy. I hope we get to see some of him coming back into Tim's life on the show (or, you know, I may just have to write a behind-the-scenes series of the episodes so far...)

Malkin suggested writing about Jason's Christmas through Tim or Billy's eyes (I think just to go easy on me), but I really got into it. It felt like a new way of seeing Jason (no one calls him cripple normally). Maybe something to try out more often.

rachel_wilder December 21 2007, 21:45:55 UTC

Malkin suggested writing about Jason's Christmas through Tim or Billy's eyes (I think just to go easy on me), but I really got into it. It felt like a new way of seeing Jason (no one calls him cripple normally). Maybe something to try out more often.

I think that is a fine idea. And what I was saying before is that you've become known for your fine Tim voice, but I think you really rock the Billy.