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[wildcolumbine]

THE OUTLAND

Genre: AU
Rating: NC-17 for m/m sex and language
Feedback: Any and all is welcome
Disclaimer: These are Annie Proulx's brilliant original characters and her story, and I have treated it and them (and her) with as much respect as I can muster.

This story is for Canstandit, with thanks for her ongoing support and help.

THE OUTLAND, CHAPTER 9

Comments

WOW

[anonymous]

I'm hanging on by my finger nails!! What a chapter!!! Jack's blow-up was so well-constructed, around the threatening water, with Ennis trying to staunch it-very clever. All those BBM echoes....I really like the lavendar in his hair; the healing herb.

I particularly loved the workhorse Ennis in the beginning-everyone else strategizing and thinking; and he's just working away. Very funny narrative, too, with Jack telling Ennis he'll rope himself to Ennis if he tries to leave.....I feel like you've brought Jack safely to his own surface,where he feels secure enough around Ennis now to make such bold statements. Little did I know what awaited at the end of the chapter. WOW. Really splendid work.

CSI

[torry28]

This chapter tore me up, I felt so bad for Jack for still feeling like Ennis's dirty little secret, feelings that his father cares for Ennis but not for him. I feel bad he had to have that outburst and did what Ennis promised he would not do, take off again. Now he is back to stay and tell Jack he loves him?
God I hope so I just can't bare Ennis and Jack being unhappy and apart.
Thanks you for your wonderful writing.
Torry

[my_lil_darlin]

AAARRRRGH! What kind of a goddamned place is THAT to leave us??? OMFG, I cannot take it.... *holds head in hands* You sucked me in with this one, darlin', hook, line and sinker; I was GONE, right into your AU, one which you paint so vividly, so realistically, I swear to God, I was standing right there with them, lying alongside them in their bed, bellying up to Sybil's dinner table right next to them. But this cliffhanger is just cruel! I swear, I wanna weep

[thelastaerie]

arrgghhhh.... tell you you have the next chapter in your computer already and it will be posted tomorrow! No... in the next 10 minutes!

i am quite torn... on one hand, I think Jack was right to call Ennis out on that - that last stubborn defence of this "I aint queer" business. it's hard not to think of being treated like a dirty little secret if ennis behaves like that. But on the other hand, ennis' fear is so great, the poisoned memory still so deep rooted in his mind... i can't bear to push him over the edge.

You captured so well of ennis' state of mind here... how much he really cares about Jack, and now he realises how jack has suffered and the magnitude of "this thing" between them, i think he does understand all of these. the problem is, he still hasn't accept who he is...

And Alma... i don't know what to say! what a special way to look at your ex!

[danivl4]

Thank you, thank you so much for this long spectacular chapter. I love all of the rich detail you weave throughout the story giving such a real feel for ranch life. I love your characterizations and the deliberate pacing. Nothing is rushed and it is very satisfying. Definitely well woth the wait and I am looking forward to more.

Dani