Fic: Blackout Zone, Epilogue (FF/SPN)

[vaznetti]

I realize that everyone probably thought I'd forgotten all about this, or rather, that everyone else probably has forgotten all about this, but here's another piece of "Blessings Against Thunder." I'm calling it the epilogue to Blackout Zone. It's just John and Zoe, and almost no plot. It was supposed to just be comfort sex, but I forgot how

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[phantomas]

I didn't nag or pressure, but I was secretly hoping you were working on this *G* and yes, I would have asked about it, eventually ;)

What amazes me is how you manage to make me 'see' exactly what they do, how they do it, the expressions on their faces, all that turmoil of emotions they both keep inside. I love it.
They're both such tough characters, and both quite hurt by life already, they almost don't speak at all, preferring actions and concise qustions and answers, and it all happens in between that, and the voices you have for them are so IC that, as I said, I have NO trouble whatsoever imagining it all.
thank you :D

[vaznetti]

Oh, feel free to poke me about this sort of thing -- I have a bad habit of starting episodic stories like this one and then letting them slide, especially if I'm not sure that the audience is really there for them.

I'm so pleased by your comment that you can see what's going on, because I know I'm a bit lax when it comes to description, and I can't show much of what the characters are thinking here, because neither of them are terribly introspective. So I have to let these brief exchanges do all the heavy work.

But I do see emotional intricacies as plot advancement, and this Epilogue is filled to the brim with emotional intricacies :)

That's true -- and both characters needed to do this emotional stuff, or at least I needed them to do it. They're still feeling their way around each other, at least a little, but I think they're on firmer gound now.

[phantomas]

Ah, well, if I have your permission, you will be poked about this now and then ;) because I do like it very much, and you make the Winchesters fit so well within the Firefly universe, I just kick back and enjoy (well, yes, I'm selfish like that) ;)

I know I'm a bit lax when it comes to description, and I can't show much of what the characters are thinking here, because neither of them are terribly introspective.

It works really well, for me, it's all in those exchanges and it just works so very effectively :)

I am particularly taken with their last exchange, Zoe saying that Serenity is home, and John, John not having the courage to say 'it doesn't matter'. It's such a poignant moment, for the two of them and it moves them from 'I fancy you, wanna make out' to some other very interesting place.

[vaznetti]

I am particularly taken with their last exchange, Zoe saying that Serenity is home, and John, John not having the courage to say 'it doesn't matter'. It's such a poignant moment, for the two of them and it moves them from 'I fancy you, wanna make out' to some other very interesting place.

I think that they'd made that change implicitly -- or rather, I think that the fact that John and his sons are working with the crew of Serenity suggests that everyone else thinks that they have -- but I'm not sure either of them had gone so far as to admit it to themselves, which is what they're doing here. Or at least, they're trying to talk about it in their entirely-too-laconic fashion. Zoe is doing a better job than John, but I think she's less emotionally stunted than he is.

Writing this piece has given me an extraordinary sympathy for Wash and Mary.

[phantomas]

Was re-reading after saving, and this caught my eye:
It was supposed to just be comfort sex, but I forgot how difficult both characters can be.

Eh. Yes, I can see how it would go, between you (the writer) and those two stubborn heads. *G*
But I do see emotional intricacies as plot advancement, and this Epilogue is filled to the brim with emotional intricacies :)

[merrycontrary]

I realize that everyone probably thought I'd forgotten all about this, or rather, that everyone else probably has forgotten all about this
Heh. I just figured you were like me and were standing around with your head in the sand, chanting "he's not really dead, he's not really dead." I'm only starting to be able to read John fic again.

The back of his mind calls it cowardice, calls the way his stomach tightens fear, reminds him of dogs he's seen, beat once too often.
Oh, God. This line is so perfect, that my own stomach clenched in recognition.

I am so glad to hear you will be continuing with this universe.

[vaznetti]

Denial and I are quite good friends, these days. I do not know this "dead" of which you speak. (I actually started this story right after the season premiere, and was glad to have a ready-made AU to hide in.)

And thank you -- I'm glad you're still enjoying this. I needed to get John and Zoe into some kind of working order before heading into the next big plot arc. Although it's very possible that my standards for "working order" when it comes to these two characters are pretty low.

[vaznetti]

Thank you! Elegant and economical -- sounds like fine praise to me.

[cofax7]

Ah, there we go. I do think this is a marvelous and complex pairing. And what you've done with this universe is really really cool. Poor John and not knowing what to do with Blue Sun.

[vaznetti]

Thank you very much -- it's hard, as I said above, to deal with the inner lives of characters like this, because they avoid introspection.

Poor John and not knowing what to do with Blue Sun.

Poor me, I fear. I have no idea how to come at the plot for the next arc. What was I thinking?