We ♥ The Good Wife February Ficathon

[sweetjamielee]

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Cupid, Inc. (1 of 2)

[randomizer]

A/N I'm new to fan fiction in general, reading it as well as writing it. I recently asked someone what "crack fic" was. After writing this piece, I have the uncomfortable feeling that I now know what is is!“Fantasia! The phone is ringing again

Re: Cupid, Inc. (2 of 3)

[randomizer]

Elsbeth was exasperated. “But how can we be sure what we’re doing is really helping Mrs. Florrick? I know we just get the assignments from the Potential Pairings department, but I’m worried that someone is dropping the ball somewhere. Sometimes I think I know where her story is going, but then everything suddenly changes, and I don’t have any idea what’s really going on, or what the master plan could be. I had some hopes for her when she was with Will earlier this year, but that just ended up making her even more unhappy. What was the point of it all? Why get them together, only to end it so suddenly?”

Fantasia looked a little uncomfortable. “We all just have to trust that the Arc Department has a handle on everything. They haven’t really let us down yet, have they?”

“No, not really. But I’m concerned. Sometimes I can’t even find Mrs. Florrick-she’s just plain not where she’s supposed to be. Last week someone tweeted me to bump into her near a coffee cart, just to check on how she was doing while Will was dealing with the Bar

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[randomizer]

Elsbeth appeared a little wistful. “I was really making progress with Mrs. Florrick during her first two years at Lockhart Gardner. But once she found out about Kalinda and Peter . . . we were much worse off than we’d been at the beginning of the assignment. I’ve always thought . . . there must have been something that I could have done . . .”

“No. there wasn’t.” Fantasia said it sharply, even as Elsbeth looked doubtful. “There wasn’t. We needed all that to happen. Alicia needed to be broken down entirely so we could reconstruct her heart from scratch. A patch job just wouldn’t have worked in her case. She needed her heart shattered completely

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[demoka]

You.... are fucking awesome! XP

HA! Elsbeth is a damned fairy! XPPPPPP (Yes my mind just went to True Blood, but in a good way! But not their fairies....)

*rereads OTP Department & starts giggling hysterically* Oh hell yes. I would LOOOOOOOOOVE that job! XP

You are brilliant for writing this and threeguesses is awesome for instigating it!

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[randomizer]

Thanks! I *did* think it was a terrific prompt (and such an unexpected one!). It was a lot of fun to play with the idea that everyone has been calling Elsbeth a magic fairy lawyer by making her *really* a magic fairy lawyer! :-)

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[tamoline]

That was kind of hilarious, as well as a fun read. (And I'm English, and so prone to understatement.)

Thanks!

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[randomizer]

Jolly good! :-)

(And thanks!)

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[sweetjamielee]

So THIS is why I love ficathons so much. No one ever just sits down and decides "I think I'm going to write Elspeth/Fantasia fairy!fic today," but people get creative with the prompts, and they inspire people, and then absolute genius like THIS is born. Slow claps for you, my friend. This was DELIGHTFUL. You had me from “since you’re the only one who can see me.”:)

Things I was highly amused/squeal-ly over:

That Bar Association is one efficient organization!

Hahahahaha.

Elsbeth looked away for a moment, her eye caught by the dancing lights sparkling off of Fantasia. But then she remembered what she had been planning to say.

See, the most out-of-character thing about this whole story is that Elsbeth would not have been CONSTANTLY distracted by the shiny, and hence unable to do her important cupid work.

In the couple of centuries they’d been working together, an understanding had grown between them.

New. OTP.

I know we just get the assignments from the Potential Pairings department, but I’m worried that someone is dropping

Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)

[randomizer]

Wow, I'm so pleased and encouraged by what you've written that I can't think of any mock-sarcastic response. Thank you! :-) I wasn't at all sure what anyone would make of this weird little meta-fandom foray, but I had a lot of fun writing it. (And I couldn't help adding that angsty A/K heart shattery, let-them-be-friends-again stuff. That's what comes out of me these days when I do things like pay my bills and take out the garbage!)