[fic] Sharing

[darthneko]

Title: Sharing (2857 words)
Fandom: Transformers Movieverse (DotM canon compliant)
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Lennox & Ratchet (implied Ironhide/Ratchet)
Summary:

For the tf-rare-pairing prompt of "Lennox/Ratchet, Grief". Ideally, this would make MORE sense if read after another fic... which I haven't written yet. Hopefully the context is enough to go on.

Comments

[mmouse15]

That was beautifully written. Thank you.

[darthneko]

Thank you! You're welcome - the prompt really nabbed me.

[quidamling]

That was beautiful.

(and everything Bay is incapable of portraying)

And exactly what they both needed.

Damn. Pickup trucks are going to hurt for a while.

<3 Thank you for writing this.

[darthneko]

Thank you. And yes... oh man. Pickup trucks and black anything are just going to be full of ow for awhile. Thanks for reading!

[keelywolfe]

Ohhhhhhhh.

I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm thoroughly spoiled, I know what happens, and I just don't think I can stand it. This was just heartbreaking and gorgeously written and I could just cry for both of them.

[darthneko]

[headdesk] I should've spoiler flagged it, though I figured "dotm compliant" would be enough to steer most people clear if they were avoiding dotm stuff like the plague.

Thank you for reading. fwiw, there's pretty much zero of this in the film, in the way that action movies cut away right as the action ends and don't wrap up any of the actual fallout. Which is totally why I feel the need to fill in the gaps. =P They needed resolution, everyone did, and this was just part of it.

[keelywolfe]

Oh, no, no, you didn't spoil me, I'm sure your warnings were fine. I happily spoiled myself before the movie came out, and now that I know what happens, I haven't been able to bear going to see it. But I like to read all the grieving and fix-it stories people are writing because for some reason, Michael Bay doesn't seem to feel the need to even mention the fact that mechs have died. 9_9

The movies have always needed resolution; Bay just sucks at it. :P

[darthneko]

Oh good! I mean, I thought that was what you were saying, but yeah. I forget not everyone's seen it yet.

To be fair, MOST action movies suck balls at the whole "resolution" thing. There's the big Action Ending, and then... fade to black. Hero kisses girl, maybe there's a sunset, but there's no real resolution or dealing with any fallout from the mess action movies tend to make of their characters. It's just "oh look, good guys won, cue happily ever after!"

Bay does, however, suck at it more than most as there's never any indication in the film that oh, hey, they lost anyone along the way. I mean, I understand on an intellectual level just how much more any mech takes, per second on screen, than an actual actor's salary, and then you weigh that against the budget, but this doesn't change that we're all there for the mechs and then we don't get them. rar.

[darthneko]

Thank you. ^_^ It's been awhile since I've had a fandom that made me need to haul out the offscreen resolution bunnies, but damned if DotM doesn't pretty much require it.

[darthneko]

[gargoule]

*really wants to go hug her truck. my little Ironcade who would be a little Ironhide, if he wasn't such an asshole 'con*

this was so beautiful. totally made me tear up.

[darthneko]

[HUGS] Thanks. (even 'cons deserve hugs!)

[gargoule]

*HUGS* You're welcome. (they do deserve hugs. maybe they wouldn't be cranky if they got more hugs)