This is great! I find Zak intriguing, and I really quite like the character you've brought to life here. Kara is perfect here, too, carrying some stuff around, certainly, but Zak really made her happy.
I love the way you set up the infamous table boning as being right when the relationship with Zak solidifies, as one of her stunts she pulls to self-sabotage when things are critical, just like you have her meet Zak right when she starts teaching, which I think fits in perfectly with UB.
But that sting of failure, of disappointment in his father’s and brother’s eyes, Zak knows it’s worth a life lived by someone else’s rules than to have to actually feel those gazes upon him.
OH BOYS.
For awhile, they’re a trio, a group of friends that go to the bar and play pyramid in one of the parks on the other side of Delphi. There’s a movie, even a weekend trip to their grandfather’s house out by the lake, and somewhere along the way it all stops being so difficult.
yes! I loved the feel in S1 that they were - whatever else was going in in their messed-up heads and messed-up lives - actually friends.
I know I’m going to be with you for the rest of my life
Those little lines like that really killed me (referring to Zak saying he knows he'll be with her the rest of his life) when writing it since we all know how the story ends even before it begins. He will be with her...unfortunately he doesn't have much time left. Then there's his mention of he'll be with her always because she's got the ring explaining just how important it was to her for her to carry it with her the rest of her life. And Kara being afraid he won't come home like her father did, but Zak's different, she trusts him to return. Then of course, he doesn't.
It SO just made me want to say frak you to canon and save them the heartache of losing each other :(
I love the way you set up the infamous table boning as being right when the relationship with Zak solidifies, as one of her stunts she pulls to self-sabotage when things are critical, just like you have her meet Zak right when she starts teaching, which I think fits in perfectly with UB.
But that sting of failure, of disappointment in his father’s and brother’s eyes, Zak knows it’s worth a life lived by someone else’s rules than to have to actually feel those gazes upon him.
OH BOYS.
For awhile, they’re a trio, a group of friends that go to the bar and play pyramid in one of the parks on the other side of Delphi. There’s a movie, even a weekend trip to their grandfather’s house out by the lake, and somewhere along the way it all stops being so difficult.
yes! I loved the feel in S1 that they were - whatever else was going in in their messed-up heads and messed-up lives - actually friends.
I know I’m going to be with you for the rest of my life
oof.
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It SO just made me want to say frak you to canon and save them the heartache of losing each other :(
Thank you for reading!
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