Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [Kalinda(/Alicia), Will, Part 1 of 2]threeguessesMarch 1 2012, 21:27:43 UTC
(THIS IS SO LATE, OH MY GOD.)
The conflict waiver crumples with a satisfying crunch. Kalinda doesn’t know she’s going to do it until she does, automatic and out of control. The most surprising part is the lack of paper cuts-the way Kalinda feels right now, there should be blood. Alicia’s signature is crisp and clean, even through the blur of the photocopy.
Kalinda’s halfway down the block before she realizes what Dana’s expression meant, frozen and etched in the dim light of the bar: surprise. She hadn’t believed it would work, not really. Not until Kalinda walked out.
The night is cold and still. Kalinda’s laugh echoes across the empty sidewalk, jagged and caught in her throat.
(It isn’t Leela’s laugh. Kalinda doesn’t know when that happened.)
You have a tell, Blake’s voice purrs in her ear
( ... )
Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]threeguessesMarch 1 2012, 21:29:48 UTC
She plans afterwards, when it comes out, when Will and Elsbeth start side-eyeing her inside the courthouse. She shrugs at Elsbeth, and takes Will with her up the hallway towards the doors.
“I fucked up,” she tells him. He blinks at the swear and not the sentiment, which is exactly what Kalinda intended. “But we can use it.”
(She would have told him earlier, honestly, except for how disgustingly revealing it all is. She’s tipped her hand, hugely, and now she just wants it all swept under the rug.)
Still: “It was Alicia,” she says. Will nods like that’s explanation enough.
*
Afterwards, they raid his private stash rather than drink the sickly-sweet champagne the paralegals are serving up in plastic cups. His office feels more like a fishbowl than usual, dark inside with the lights and noise of the party all around. Kalinda’s heels sink into the carpet.
“You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over.
Re: Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]mightbefoundMarch 2 2012, 00:28:36 UTC
Who cares if it's late? This is totally awesome! Absolutely worth the wait and more.
Seriously, I love that you took something that bothered me about Dana blackmailing Kalinda--the fact that the threat seemed so tenuous, when you stop and think about it--and turned it into the It of the story. And that you played so with Kalinda and the file--I appreciate that the writers left Kalinda's plan/motivation there up for interpretation, because I love your interpretation (and Will and Kalinda bonding over a threat to Alicia, because totally). I particularly loved You have a tell, Blake’s voice purrs in her ear. Kalinda stops laughing. because it's so true, and so awesome, and so telling (see what I did there?).
Also, Will twirling Kalinda is my new headcanon, and I'm firmly convinced the show just didn't show it to us (because A/K/W is OT3, shhhhhh). I mean, “You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over
( ... )
The National wins everythingthreeguessesMarch 9 2012, 23:45:56 UTC
Heh, yeah, that part of the blackmailing bothered me too after I puzzled it out. Basically this is just the written-down version of what I fanwanked in my head.
Re: The National wins everythingmightbefoundMarch 10 2012, 01:42:14 UTC
(A/K/W is kiiiiind of becoming my OT3 too...)
I think you should totally write it. The previous threesome fic you wrote for them was hot, hot, hot. And I think the dynamic you wrote for them then has only been reinforced by recent developments on the show.
Re: Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]randomizerMarch 2 2012, 03:53:40 UTC
This is really terrific-so psychologically revealing, so spot-on. And it has the added benefit of smoothing over some of the what-happened-when plot waverings in "Another Ham Sandwich." I particularly loved this:
It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
Thank you! I hate all the what-happened-when shenanigans (Kings! plot out your damn timelines!) but I also love them because they allow for some much leeway in fic.
The conflict waiver crumples with a satisfying crunch. Kalinda doesn’t know she’s going to do it until she does, automatic and out of control. The most surprising part is the lack of paper cuts-the way Kalinda feels right now, there should be blood. Alicia’s signature is crisp and clean, even through the blur of the photocopy.
Kalinda’s halfway down the block before she realizes what Dana’s expression meant, frozen and etched in the dim light of the bar: surprise. She hadn’t believed it would work, not really. Not until Kalinda walked out.
The night is cold and still. Kalinda’s laugh echoes across the empty sidewalk, jagged and caught in her throat.
(It isn’t Leela’s laugh. Kalinda doesn’t know when that happened.)
You have a tell, Blake’s voice purrs in her ear ( ... )
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“I fucked up,” she tells him. He blinks at the swear and not the sentiment, which is exactly what Kalinda intended. “But we can use it.”
(She would have told him earlier, honestly, except for how disgustingly revealing it all is. She’s tipped her hand, hugely, and now she just wants it all swept under the rug.)
Still: “It was Alicia,” she says. Will nods like that’s explanation enough.
*
Afterwards, they raid his private stash rather than drink the sickly-sweet champagne the paralegals are serving up in plastic cups. His office feels more like a fishbowl than usual, dark inside with the lights and noise of the party all around. Kalinda’s heels sink into the carpet.
“You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over.
“You should call her,” Kalinda fires ( ... )
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Seriously, I love that you took something that bothered me about Dana blackmailing Kalinda--the fact that the threat seemed so tenuous, when you stop and think about it--and turned it into the It of the story. And that you played so with Kalinda and the file--I appreciate that the writers left Kalinda's plan/motivation there up for interpretation, because I love your interpretation (and Will and Kalinda bonding over a threat to Alicia, because totally). I particularly loved
You have a tell, Blake’s voice purrs in her ear.
Kalinda stops laughing.
because it's so true, and so awesome, and so telling (see what I did there?).
Also, Will twirling Kalinda is my new headcanon, and I'm firmly convinced the show just didn't show it to us (because A/K/W is OT3, shhhhhh). I mean,
“You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over ( ... )
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(A/K/W is kiiiiind of becoming my OT3 too...)
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I think you should totally write it. The previous threesome fic you wrote for them was hot, hot, hot. And I think the dynamic you wrote for them then has only been reinforced by recent developments on the show.
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It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
Perfect!
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