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andbless_mybaby

fic: the things we've handed down

Feb 28, 2010 10:04

Title: the things we’ve handed down
Author: andbless_mybaby
Pairing: Puck/Quinn
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Quinn has her baby. It’s both a beginning and an end.
Word count: 2,400

A/N: Written for goldstar94 at the gleefics V-Day Fic Exchange. Love and kisses to my Becca, who beta'd this on the fly the night before it was due, and boosted my morale. The world will never know how much ( Read more... )

rating: pg-13, pairing: puck/quinn, fic: glee

Comments 12

unequivocally February 28 2010, 15:54:21 UTC

I loathe Puck/Quinn fics usually but since it was you, I just had to give this a chance and oh god my heart, you broke my heart.

I have been staring at this box for a good 10 minutes trying to come up with some form of praise but the words escape me. Painful, heartbreaking, poignant and you did it all so, so well.

Lovely job. My heart hurts, but lovely job just the same.

andbless_mybaby February 28 2010, 17:32:19 UTC

I'm sorry that your heart hurts. Mine hurt writing it. My boys were very premature, and I had a rough birth experience. With the twins' birthday coming up, those hard-to-deal-with memories all kind of spilled into this story. Of course, my story had the happiest kind of ending.

Thank you so much for reading and taking the time to comment. You are so very wonderful.

becca_radcgg February 28 2010, 16:32:25 UTC

you already know how I feel about this, bb.

The bouquets all had the anemic, underfed charm of hothouses and cargo jets

This is still maybe my favourite line that you've written. Beautifully poignant, melancholy, and angsty all at the same time.

*hugs you*

andbless_mybaby February 28 2010, 17:22:04 UTC

*hugs back*

I'm running out of ways to tell you how awesome you are. So I'll settle for "thank you."

becca_radcgg February 28 2010, 18:27:12 UTC

on a somewhat related note: I still have no comment from my recipient... *cries*

and your welcome.

V-Day Exchange goldstar94 February 28 2010, 17:39:57 UTC

I'm so sorry for not responding to this sooner, but.........
I just wanted to let you know that you did a beautiful job on this! I was crying so hard throughout the entire story! The ending was perfection! Your character descriptions were spot on and your entire idea for the story was so great! Thank you so much! :]

Re: V-Day Exchange andbless_mybaby February 28 2010, 17:47:06 UTC

I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT!

::huge hugs::

I was worried that you didn't, and it makes my whole WEEK that you enjoyed it. Thank you for coming over and commenting. ♥

kathrynthegr8 March 1 2010, 22:09:47 UTC

This was fantastic and so heartbreaking. I really like the way it comes back full circle, Puck and Quinn alone and mourning together.

Lovely fic.

andbless_mybaby March 1 2010, 22:36:26 UTC

Thank you, babe. :)

nyafangirl March 17 2010, 13:23:25 UTC

I enjoyed this more than the other Puck/Quinn piece, possibly because it wasn't shippy as such, just them being parents. And with Rachel messaging him and taking him shopping, my brain decided that meant he was dating Rach. Not surprising, I know.

Also? I'm a total angst-whore, so really loved that aspect. There is so much fic written about the birth of the baby, yet I'm almost positive no-one has come up with this particular spin before. And the whole thing with the incubators and medical issues, it's so heartbreakingly real that I knew you had to have had a personal experience. Then I read your comment to unequivocally, and was feeling for you for the past. There are some things that cannot be merely researched. *hugs* awesome job.

andbless_mybaby March 17 2010, 17:45:59 UTC

I think in my mind, Puck and Rachel are always dating or thinking about dating in stories where they aren't the main characters. Like, I wrote some Santana/Tina and Puck and Rachel weren't even really in it. But they were probably seeing each other. It's my personal canon.

I'm glad you appreciated the angst. Yeah, it's a topic that's close to me. I don't talk about it a lot, because my kiddos are extremely healthy now and it seems kind of ridiculous to still be dragging that emotional albatross around. (Even if I sometimes do.) But you know, we all have things like that.

As usual, your comments rock my life. Thank you. ::hugs back::

nyafangirl March 18 2010, 12:09:27 UTC

Your personal canon and mine. And a whole bunch of other PR-ers. Though probs not Becca, since she apparently can't decide between PR and FR. Though all three of them together? *fans self* ultimate hotness.

Yeah, we all have the emotional albatross (awesome description, btw) that won't go away, no matter how much time passes. And if you can use it to enhance your writing, as you did so perfectly, all the more power to you.