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Bitter Truths (A Bitter Tears, Bitter Laughter Remix) [Peri, Adam | PG]

Aug 12, 2009 18:00

Title: Bitter Truths (A Bitter Tears, Bitter Laughter Remix)
Author: scarlettgirl
Characters/Pairings: Peri Brown, Adam Mitchell
Rating: PG
Summary: A girl out of time and a boy out of options discover they have more in common than either would have imagined
Word Count: 1,037
Original Story: Bitter Laughter, Bitter Tears by amaresu

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character: adam mitchell, rating: pg, remixer: scarlettgirl, original author: amaresu, character: peri brown

Comments 9

Icon used because it's the only Adam icon I have amaresu August 12 2009, 18:45:10 UTC

I am filled with so much glee right now. This is fantastic. I love the way you've presented Adam. This is brilliant and I'm in incoherent flailing mode right now so my feedback is kinda shit, but I love this.

It was there that he discovered that on a corner at 3 a.m. words like “lost” and “abandoned” aren’t so different. <---One of my favorite lines. There are too many to quote them all, but I adore this one.

I'm gonna sit here and make flaily hands for a bit.

Re: Icon used because it's the only Adam icon I have scarlettgirl August 14 2009, 10:58:26 UTC

I'm so glad you liked it! I'm going to confess and admit that I wrote this on the plane on the way home from Writercon* (what was I thinking - time to write fic beforehand? HAHAHA) which is also the excuse I'll use for the picky errors that I'm now seeing. Despite my bleary-eyed state of mind, this was a lot of fun to write. Adam is an interesting character and I think his fate was pretty horrific. I also think he'd find a way to make it work for him, in the long run. He's a survivor. Thanks for giving me a great story to work with!

*I was hoping to meet you at Writercon and chat BFA but when I mentioned to my reg team I hadn't seen "amaresu" all weekend they reminded me you were using a different badge name. *facepalm* Missed opportunity!

Re: Icon used because it's the only Adam icon I have amaresu August 17 2009, 19:06:10 UTC

Least you got yours written. I had to bail on the exchange due to not finishing my fic.

It looks just fine to me. I'm glad you had fun writing it.

Sometimes I like to pretend The Long Game never happened. (Adam went on a few adventures with them and then found a nice girl to go off and marry after knowing her for about three hours.) Adam really got the short end of the stick companion wise. I love that you managed to keep his conniving bastard side there, it's brilliant.

The funny thing is that we did actually talk a couple of times at Writercon. Teach me to sign up for things while sleep deprived and unsure of how it all worked. It would've been nice to chat about BFA though.

ghost2 August 13 2009, 05:08:50 UTC

Ha, good point. Peri's seen a lot stranger than Adam, so of course she'd react relatively calmly to his special "problem" there. I like how Adam is keeping his own interests in mind even as he comforts Peri.

scarlettgirl August 14 2009, 10:59:53 UTC

Hee - thanks! And yes, my initial thought was that Adam wouldn't knock her off her stride and Adam, well, Adam is always thinking of Adam. I don't think he can help it, really.

livii August 13 2009, 22:38:36 UTC

This is nicely done; it's nice to see Adam's POV, and I really like this line: It was easier to loathe the smiling faces that had dropped him into this half-life than to examine the naked ambition that had drawn him to that shiny, sterile clinic.

Oof. It hurts, but in a good way! Great work.

scarlettgirl August 14 2009, 11:04:10 UTC

Thank you! As I admitted to amaresu, I wrote this immediately post-con and may have been suffering from great sleep deprivation so I'm glad I didn't fall on my face. Much. (Can't.stop.seeing.error.)

Poor Adam. I want to dislike him but I just can't. I think he's a product of conditioning - the sense of entitlement and jack-assery thats a result of being smart and having smoke blown up your ass your entire life.

elliptic_eye August 13 2009, 23:35:11 UTC

He held her as she cried and told himself that he was being kind.

Oh, ouch. Speaking of playing angles, I love the one you've selected here, because this facet of Adam is so believable. He's manipulative and he's disingenuous, but he's so damned ordinary in that, and still not vicious, and I just can't help feeling for him, anyway. And doubly so for Peri as a result.

scarlettgirl August 14 2009, 11:11:08 UTC

Thank you! And I know what you mean. Like I said to livii, I want to dislike him but I just can't. I think he's been told his whole life that he's smart and "special" and he's internalized that to the point he doesn't understand why he needs to play by the same rules. But he's not malicious or mean, just incredibly self-centered and I think, naive.