The "Plan B" Summer 2013 TGW Ficathon

[sweetjamielee]

The "Plan B" Summer 2013 TGW Ficathon has come to a close! Thank you to all who participated. This post will remain unlocked so that readers may continue to comment on posted fics. Also feel free to post links to belatedly filled prompts.

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[randomizer]

Alicia, Cary: five things they don't miss about Kalinda (and one thing they do)

[needle428]

Posted at AO3

My head-cannon says that this takes place in the world of sweetjamielee and lunchinanelevator’s Defended/See-Through. For those who haven’t read it, go now - you won’t be disappointed. For those who have, I hope this makes sense the way it does in my mind. To sweejamielee and lunchinanelevator...thanks for writing brilliant fics. I hope you don’t mind my piggy-backing :)

Cary watches Alicia knock on a freshly painted door frame with her knuckle; she looks at it, drops her hand as if the paint isn’t there. Maybe it isn’t. There seems to be a lot of that going around - things that are there, but not really there. He thinks of Kalinda. Watches Alicia standing at a distance and her voice carries - not like with Kalinda, hushed, sometimes silent conversations.

“Robyn, do you have a minute?”

OneAlicia doesn’t miss the secrecy that comes with Kalinda. Like a crossword puzzle with more blanks than filled in spaces - she’s elusive to the untrained eye, but solvable if you’re willing to tease through clues long enough

[needle428]

Two
Cary doesn’t miss feeling like an outsider.

When Kalinda was around, he was always kept at a distance, pushed to the sidelines and never fully engaged. Like the glass walls at Lockhart Gardner - able to see, but not hear; observe, but never partake. He wasn’t the confidante or the friend or even the preferred help - for anyone. After Peter, after he was away from the firm and the friendship wasn’t a friendship anymore, he thought...maybe

[needle428]

FourHe doesn’t miss the push and pull, the ebb and flow, the uncertainty that exists when you’re around Kalinda. Never knowing if her motive is genuine, but somehow wanting to help her anyway. It’s magnetic and repellent all at the same time - a circumstance that’s only easy to notice after you’ve been away for a while

[needle428]

OneHe finds her outside the courthouse on the verge of tears. Not the kind of tears that start and stop with an angry word or a moment of levity. The kind of tears that are all-consuming and seemingly endless, flowing for hours on end without acknowledgement or regard for the lies you tell yourself. He can’t let the dam break

[schwarmerei1]

1. I love how this scenario has become like a Breakfast Club communal canon.
2. This version of what happened KICKS ARSE (so much better than what the show gave us.)
3. I love your writing, I wish you wrote more.

[needle428]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked. I wasn't quite sure if it worked or not but I'm fairly fascinated with this alt verse that talented others created so I figured why not. I have one other idea that also takes place in breakfast club cannon (bcc?) so I'm hoping I'll have time to get to it :)

[sweetjamielee]

Oh my god, I love this. Partly because I love the "5 times/things" set-ups, partly because I think this is exactly how this goes, Alicia and Cary having no idea why the fuck they always get willingly sucked into Kalinda's madness but completely helpless in missing her, partly because it's in the Denialverse and that's fantastic, and partly because it's just well-written and awesome and what's not to love. Thank you for doing it, I love your writing!!

[randomizer]

As I said on AO3, I'm so excited to read this--I like so much what you found at the interstices! And I'm so glad "Denialverse" is now a thing!
-lunchinanelevator

[schwarmerei1]

I'm adopting "Denialverse" as an official coping strategy!

[needle428]

Haha, I think every fic I write in this universe (and there are inevitably going to be more) is going to have to reference Breakfast Club Cannon (aka Denialverse) It has officially been named!

[needle428]

High praise coming from the writer who pretty much sets the bar in this fandom :) But I'm totally glad you liked it! If only you had time to write another epic A/K fic...

[randomizer]

Needle! I'm so glad you're back and that you're writing! Naturally, I love this story to death, and I'm so glad that you wrote on this prompt of mine. It really shows perfectly all of the conflicted feelings that Cary, Alicia, and Kalinda all have for one another, as well as all of the love underneath it all. You just made my day! :-)

[needle428]

I'm glad I'm back too! Hopefully I'll manage to stick around for at least the duration of the ficathon. And if I do, you might find a few more of your prompts answered :) But I'm glad you liked this one!

[ll10e6]

This is so good. It's wonderful that it leverages both Defended and See-Through, and I love the perspective it adds, particularly to See-Through.

This is really sharply written, too. I'm not a huge Cary fan, but I really like this: His ‘o’ is drawn out, like he isn’t sure where the word ends. It's pure Cary, and it totally sells the next few paragraphs, up until the end.

I'm with schwarmerei1, this is so much better than what the show gave us, and I love the idea of the BCCC (breakfast club communal canon).