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Watchmen Kink Meme 2: Electric Boogaloo. Or not.

Jun 23, 2009 18:19

Alright, alright, I'm back now. Here ya go kids. (You're just lucky the other one didn't run out in the middle of my vacation grumble grumble)

Rules of the meme:

1. Anonymously post a pairing and prompt you would like to see written. Since this is a kink meme, there is supposted to be a kink involved, but normal well-written prompts should work ( Read more... )

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The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (1/5) anonymous August 23 2009, 06:03:28 UTC

For about six weeks in 1972, Adrian can barely remember a thing. He attributes it to not enough sleep and never being sober. He can't really remember what he did during the days. Maybe, he slept. Maybe, he pretended to run the company. It's the nights that stand out, each luminous and perfect through the filter of years. He can't remember all the men and women, but he can remember a few of them. That was when he realized. It oughtn't to have taken him so long, but Adrian has always been good at hiding things, even from himself ( ... )

The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (2/5) anonymous August 23 2009, 06:04:37 UTC

Adrian Veidt left the hospital the next day in a cast. His secretary is cheerful as usual. They begin to reschedule the appointments he missed. Adrian wonders if he should tell her. She smiles at him shyly, still unused to their simple friendship, to having Adrian's confidences. A few months later, she tells him that she is pregnant. She is going to be an unwed mother. Adrian briefly entertains the idea of marrying her, even though the child is not his, but how long could he be a father for and what sort of father would he be? He congratulates her. When she dies seven months later, the baby stillborn, he feels her loss more keenly than he thought he would ( ... )

The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (3/5) anonymous August 23 2009, 06:05:22 UTC

It ends with the old world. Louis is supposed to be out of town, visiting his mother, but he is called back to New York at the last minute for a patient's emergency. Adrian doesn't know until he calls Louis at his mother's house. She tells him that she doesn't know what happened to her son. Adrian does. He knows without asking. He wears black for a month ( ... )

The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (4/5) anonymous August 23 2009, 06:06:47 UTC

He comes back every week on Thursday afternoon. It's how Adrian keeps track of the time. Soon, he swears that Dan is coming more often because the time in between is taken up mostly by sleeping. He has pneumonia. His doctors are worried that his immune system isn't strong enough to fight it off. Adrian knows it isn't, and he welcomes it ( ... )

The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) anonymous August 23 2009, 06:08:26 UTC

The next morning, Adrian Veidt dies. It is in all the major papers. His obituaries hail him as the greatest man in a generation. His cause of death: incurable leukemia. There will be no autopsy. He is buried in the snow. Dan Dreiberg wears black.

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) anonymous August 23 2009, 07:18:45 UTC

WOW.
I honestly can't describe how I feel about this fic because I loved it and it was brilliant, but it also made me want to cry.

The way you've written it is amazing, how it's centred around Adrian and how he feels, but you've also described how other people (Jon and Dan especially) and the way it was handled by the media and the world ("It is in all the major papers"). Often the shortest sentences you write are the most powerful in that they're shocking and honest, and that's a very interesting technique.

Anyway, although I am not the OP, I thank you very much for writing this. :)

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) inabathrobe August 28 2009, 21:22:06 UTC

Thank you so, so much. I'm glad you liked it.

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) anonymous August 24 2009, 16:09:19 UTC

That was very powerful. Thank you.

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) inabathrobe August 28 2009, 21:28:32 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you thought so.

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) eugenetapdance August 27 2009, 08:23:10 UTC

Wow.

Anon, do you mind if I link to this on knownidentities?

I mean, write something this good, deal with the consequences.

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) inabathrobe August 28 2009, 13:12:44 UTC

And how am I supposed to resist an offer like that? I was planning on fixing the Significant Problems with Tenses in the first half when I got back from Greece before possibly deanoning, but go right ahead if you like.

Re: The Past Keeps Getting Brighter (5/5) eugenetapdance August 28 2009, 13:17:12 UTC

Oh, or perhaps not so anon. :D

If you'd rather fix it and/or post it yourself, de-anoned, that's also cool.

Yes, thank you for breaking, hotel Internet access. inabathrobe August 28 2009, 14:02:15 UTC

Clearly, I'm just not very good at this whole anon thing.

In spite of myself, I feel compelled to fix it and maybe add to it in places. Expect the director's cut to arrive in a LJ community near you sometime in mid September.

Re: Yes, thank you for breaking, hotel Internet access. eugenetapdance August 28 2009, 14:10:45 UTC

But now I have an opportunity to think you are ridiculously cool for having a History Boys quote in your profile. May I add you?

Re: Yes, thank you for breaking, hotel Internet access. inabathrobe August 28 2009, 20:11:11 UTC

I love that play, but had completely forgotten that quote was in my profile (though, in my defense, I didn't actually have to look to remember which one it was). And only if I can add you back.

Re: Yes, thank you for breaking, hotel Internet access. eugenetapdance August 28 2009, 20:12:19 UTC

Positively. I am A Fan of literate fic writers.

Oh my god I promise I'm not an elitist asshole, despite how that last sentence sounded. Promise.

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