China Beach...

[ariestess]

So those of y'all on my flist that watch/watched China Beaach, I need a favor...

I'm writing a Reverberation for Light, Water, Muses that involves Jesse [aka Gramps/Silverback] and KC. What I need are some bits of information about KC and McMurphy. Some sort of friendship [possibly more] type things...

I don't want to go into details of why I

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[ralst]

I seem to remember KC and McMurphy developing this 'I owe you one' type of relationship - one would do the other a favour and she'd say she owed her, so as not to appear like she did it out of friendship (and at he very beginning she didn't), then the other would do a favour in return etc. then one time McMurphy made some comment about neither of them knowing who owed who what anymore (basically she was just saying they did it because they're friends/close) and KC got a little twitchy

[beccadg]

*Nods.* I think the line in the description of the third season episode, "Skin Deep (a.k.a. Miss China Beach)" that goes, "McMurphy uses a little guilt and a little blackmail to get a reluctant K.C. to visit a wounded soldier whose face has been badly disfigured," shows some of the give and take in the relationship.

The captured by the Vietcong story was the third season opener that we all seem to remember no matter how fuzzy our memories. ;)

[ariestess]

So given what you remember, would the following be plausible?

Basically, the premise of what I'm writing is that KC gets a package in the mail out of the blue. In the package is the red dress/kimono/whatever, something that KC had thought she'd lost when leaving Vietnam. Turns out McMurphy's had it all this time, as a memento of sorts. When KC gets it back, she finds out that McMurphy has passed away and it was her wish that KC get this back, along with a letter detailing what their relationship/friendship meant to McMurphy. And it tweaks KC out, as she's finally admitting that she kind of had a thing for McMurphy, but never said/did anything about it overtly.

And yeah, I understand what you mean about LL being too pregnant for the really physical stuff they were doing in "Grave Danger." And they never really did bring up why she disappeared until she came back, did they?

[ariestess]

Well, it's being written in the LWM universe, as we have a couple of older gay men who were introduced in 'Nam by KC [ie. Gramps & Tiny, if you've gotten as far as Rapids]. The story's actually written from Jesse/Gramps' POV and takes place at some point post-2002.

[ralst]

It seems perfectly plausible to me - the last series of the show, I think, dealt with them after Vietnam but I can't remember if McMurphy and KC ever met up again. There was also something about someone having leant KC money, which she used to start a business, but I can't remember if it was McMurphy or the guy who lost his leg (Actually, I'm not 100% sure it was KC). Okay, that's far too vague to be useful, but there is something about it that might be useful...my brain just can't think of what, but maybe someone else will.

And really, in retrospect, thank God LL wasn't in Grave Danger, otherwise they'd have saddled her with a boyfriend or something to explain the pregnancy and we'd have been denied the Sassy.

Okay, off to watch Bad Girls.

[ariestess]

*gasp of horror* Denied the Sassy? NOOOOOOOO!!!!

*chuckles* Now if I can get Sofia to stop rambling with the letters, so I can write Sara going to Boulder City to find her and basically call Sofia on her attraction, life would be good...