Sweet Misery, Chapter Eight

[domfangirlfic]

A/N: Not to bore you all with lengthy notes *iz cheeky* but I am sorry for how long it took to update this. Dialogue at the end of this one is from The Pilot. Oh, and if it weren't for chanchito_z this may have never been completed...so be sure to thank yourself! :D

Comments

[chanchito_z]

Absolutely worth waiting for

[badboy_fangirl]

I'm so glad you liked it, after all I was covering so many crazy emotions, but trying to make them flow logically too.

Remember how I said I didn't know how Linc found out about it when we were in Chicago? Well, now I know, so that's a good thing. Lots of times, just writing more and thinking about it, the story just sort of lays out before me, like the Yellow Brick Road. Exciting...

But yes it's good you are patient, because I do have to take a little break. I've been writing non-stop it feels like for like 3 weeks. I need a breather! :D

[badboy_fangirl]

Hey I found this in my M/V stuff when I was compiling all my notes to figure out which big events that happen in the next story. I wrote it for the hiatus fic site, I think, as a dirty drabble, but it was like a *preview* of the whole series as I originally envisioned it. Anyway, I don't know if you ever saw it, but I thought you might like to see it now :D

In his bed in his dorm room.

In the house she grew up in: against the wall, on the back porch, on the kitchen floor, in the shower, on the sofa, in the bed.

In her dorm room. In her car.

In the bathroom at Linc’s apartment, with Lincoln in the kitchen cooking them dinner.

Looking into her eyes; encased in darkness so he couldn’t see her eyes; with his eyes squeezed tightly shut; watching her ass as he moved into her roughly.

Screaming his name, panting her need, clawing his back, driving him mad, making him certain he is the only one in her heart.

[chanchito_z]

I must have seen it bc I TOTALLY remember the in the bathroom with Linc cooking dinner bc I recall the Guhhhhh....{puddle}

This is, you say, possibly in the next part? Oh. Oh my.

I heart u. so. much.

[happywriter06]

I do like M/V b/c it's inevitable that Michael would be attracted to Vee for a variety of reasons. And it's reasonable that Vee would look at Michael like why don't I care love the 'good' one? And the fics that I've read have been written so well so what's not to like? But at the same time I don't b/c Michael and Vee getting together is just all kinds of wrong. You have articulated it so beautifully that it's painful to read. You'll laying bare that part of human nature that isn't so pretty. It's not like I'm not used to reading it, it's just in the context of the brother's relationship, something I hold dear, it's difficult

[badboy_fangirl]

Hey Simone. Thanks for all of this. I love your remarks, because you always are more mad at someone, and you always have your reasons for it, so I'm glad that in some ways the events of this chapter gave you a sense of the characters being aware too

[taxidryer]

Poor (manipulative) baby.

It was the sick feeling in his stomach he hadn’t anticipated, and he wondered what Veronica would say if she could see him now.
I love the way you link it to his relationship with Sara. Actually, it’s crazy all the links you draw between the characters and within the characters.

She loves LJ, even though he’s not hers,” he said, as if that proved something.

He refused to think he cried more over Veronica breaking up with him than he had about his mother’s death.
Just to name a few.

The characters reach such a level of complexity in this story, it’s amazing, Candy.

Lincoln’s lips moved, and he reasoned truths that Michael would never refute, but the loop of condescension in those words You don’t understand amplified until the blaring, buzzing noise of it in his ears…
I think I closed my eyes right there. "Oh no ! Word vomit coming !"
… erupted out of his mouth. “What don’t I understand, exactly?”
"Aaaaah ! He’s going to say it !"

“Got her, Linc,” he blathered, his hands joining loosely over the

[badboy_fangirl]

Oh, what a nice review! Thanks (and I guess you forgave me for bribing the muse, eh?). I wanted there to be the anticipation, the chance that it was all going to come out---ah, but it didn't! I always knew Linc didn't find out until the second time around, but I did want everyone to be on the edge thinking it could be this moment, right now--OMG, shut up, Michael! So yay!

I know, I love it when Michael does inappropriate things. You expect Linc to do that, but Michael...when he does it, it's more powerful because he's so disinclined to do it.

And I know it's hard to see it, but this has always been about Sara. Always....but I couldn't advertise it as a Sara story because there is so much psychology to get through.

[jolietjones]

I've just re-read The Falling Knife to get myself into the right frame of mind for Sweet Misery and HOLY GUACAMOLE BATMAN I'd forgotten how good it is.

[badboy_fangirl]

Well, thanks for not forgetting about it, since it took so long for me to finish it up. :D Glad you liked it!

[iwouldbegood]

It was well worth the wait. And it's nice to see this story have a proper end. I guessed you would finish it some day, but I'm always sad when I see a fic I love unfinished.

I love introspective!Michael. His brain works in strange, detailed ways, and it's interesting to see his reaction to all that's happened. Of course, as always, Michael and Lincoln are so intertwined, their lives so connected, that this whole mess with the two of them and Veronica makes so much sense in all its weirdness

[badboy_fangirl]

I'm glad it was worth the wait for everyone. I'm also glad I could share the vision that I had of this from the get go. It's almost like Veronica is a plot device when it comes to Michael, he just doesn't realize it yet. It's always about Michael and Lincoln in some way, and really I'm hoping as the next part plays out it will be even more obvious that's all about Sara, or Michael's preparation for Sara.

Thanks for leaving such a great review! And I loved the paragraph you quoted, because really, when it comes down to it, nobody can love those boys better or more than each other.