Numb3rs Fic: Wilderness Bound Part 2

[emmademarais]

Written for numb3rsficathon Challenge - Ben Ellis, Albuquerque, Television
Crossposted to numb3rs_slash

Title: Wilderness Bound
Pairing/Characters: Ian/Colby, David/OMC, Don/Robin, Charlie/Amita, Megan, Alan, William Bradford, OCs
Rating: R
Spoilers: Seasons 1-4
Summary: Ian and Colby partner up for a mountain man hunt with dire consequences
Notes/Warnings: Read the

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Confession

[emmademarais]

Please see Part 3 for Confession post.

Thanks,

Emma DeMarais

[irish_dragon]

The Femur and Tibia, that would be painful. The Femur and Tibia carry the weight in the leg.

The Fibula helps w/ muscle and no weight.

I love it when proper Anatomy is used in stories, it helps re-enforcing the stuff I'm learning in school, as well as the story.

[emmademarais]

Thank you!

I do try to do enough research to be correct on as much as I can. (I did actually look into what birds are found in New Mexico instead of just picking some at random for example.) I actually wanted to give Ian an artificial hip, but the injury he sustained would have shattered his pelvis, not required the actual joint to be replaced, so I went with pins instead for reconstructive surgery, not an artificial implant. A bit disappointing, but in the end I went for factual over fanciful.

For their injuries I imagined that Colby fell feet first and the force of the fall was on his left leg, which touched down first, thus the multiple breaks and the inability to put any weight on it. Ian fell on his side, having been tumbled with boulders. I actually imagined he fell on top of a boulder, breaking his ribs and shattering his pelvic bone, then slipped off the boulder to fall onto his injured side on the ground beside it.

Yes, I overanalyze fic. LOL It's one of my many faults virtues idiosyncrasies. Hehehe

[umbralillium]

I don't typically cry over stories, but Colby in the ICU with Ian had me tearing up. *sniffles* I really like the dynamic you've built up between Colby and Ian and all your OCs are amazing. Can't wait for part three. : )

[emmademarais]

Aww! /hands over tissues/

I ♥ Ian's family, really. I am going to miss them when the fic is done. I almost want to revisit this universe just to have some fun with all of them again.

Of course I need to recover from having written a 30K fic in a week first, but one hopes that will happen eventually. LOL

Thanks for your lovely comment and for taking the time to read all of this huge story!

[umbralillium]

I have no objections to revisiting this universe. *innocent look*

*blinks* Dude, and I was impressed by my 6k-in-four-days for the story I'm focussing on. *shakes head*

You're welcome! After hearing about it earlier this week, no way was I passing this one up. *grin*

[emmademarais]

I can be freakishly prolific at times. I wrote all of Simon Says (one of my rare fic that didn't fit in one LJ post) within one 24 hour period and it's over 15K. I wrote the first four stories in the Three Red Balls Series in one sitting and I think they were about 4-5K all together. I wrote 25K of fic in half a month during August of last year and that was in about 6-8 different stories. When I get flow, it's a freaking Niagara Falls! This though? I have no words for the sheer mass of words that's been coming out of me since I started this fic on the 27th. /marvels/

Let's just say even though I've never won a NaNo before? I'm feeling *much* more confident about my chances this year.

Besides, I'm writing Virtue for NaNo. I managed to finish Vice, I can manage to finish Virtue.

Okay, maybe not in 30 days, but 50K of it? No longer seeming impossible. ;-)

After hearing about it earlier this week, no way was I passing this one up.Hearing about it? From me? I don't really remember telling anyone I was writing a huge Ian/

[ladygray99]

Hey there, really loving this. angst!colby is fun as is colby's slight confusion surrounding Ian. I'm also really liking Ian's family. You'll have to bring them back. And as someone who's been involved in a lot of wilderness first aid a femur is a bitch of a break. It's one of the most painful you can have because the thigh muscles are so strong they grind the ends of the break together. Colby has balls of steel for moving so much as an inch with that break.

[emmademarais]

I'm thrilled that you're enjoying this and extra pleased that I didn't blow any of the medical or wilderness stuff enough to generate any complaints. I wanted Colby's break to be painful enough that it's understandable that he'd black out - either from the concussion or the pain. He's still our Colby, same guy who stood up to Lancer's torture, so if it means saving Ian's life? He'd endure the pain long enough to find a way to get Ian help.

I really adore Ian's family and the whole Edgerton sense of humor. I was so glad the premiere a) didn't Joss me with opposing canon and b) underscored Ian's sense of humor, dovetailing nicely into how I wrote him and his family.

Now that I'm done writing the fic I feel kind of sad. I miss this Ian/Colby pairing and I miss his family. After ~31K of fic in 7 days though I'm ready for a vacation from them. No clue if there will be a sequel (what's left to say?) but they are a fun bunch and I think I'd enjoy spending some time at the ranch again.

Thanks for taking the time to read!

[ladygray99]

Oh there's always more to say. or at least more sex to be had. I was very happy with 5.01 since WWC pissed me off so much and I felt was so badly written I killed Charlie in a fic. Having Ian back and fun and on his game was perfect. LDP looked like he was maybe having just a little too much fun being back on the show.
I think you really nailed Ian's voice and humour in this story and that's not easy. I think fic writers, my self included have a habit of writing Ian a little more serious and stoic, possibly because it's just easier.
And should you ever need to know persidure for a break like Colby's, if you don't have a handy rescue helicopter, is to use something like two ski polls, put them on either side of the leg, tie them in place above the break, then pull as hard as you can on the other side of the break so the bone isn't grinding, and while still pulling tie the polls to the leg below the break to keep the ends pulled apart. It's tricky and really a two man job but the person will stop screaming if you do it right.

[emmademarais]

/winces/

Okay, OW!

I noted how calmly you wrote "the person will stop screaming if you do it right". Gah!

I knew about splinting like that, but the pulling? No wonder they gave people stuff like leather to bite down on. /shudder/

One thing I like about writing Ian is there are so many Ian's to write! I've written him scary, I've written him intense and dramatic, I've written him as a dom in BDSM numerous times and I've written him in relationships. But I do adore writing him with snarky humor. I'm just gratified that he so gleefully proved me right in 5.01. Yes, he was a bit too gleeful, but it made for such good fun during the episode, I didn't mind. So much Ian goodness after such a long wait? /loffs/

[1trackmind]

Very nice! I love Ian's family. And you're right, he does seem more and more human. I really liked Bradford's observation that not only had Ian become mortal in Colby's eyes, but Colby was the one who had made him so.

[emmademarais]

Thank you! Is it perverse that I think I miss Ian's family more than I miss Ian and Colby now that the fic is done? ROFL

Hee @ your icon! I tell you I used that scene as inspiration for this fic. Nothing like some hot shirtless LDP to spur the muse for Ian/Colby slashy goodness.

I wish Bradford would come back. I really liked his character voice and find him to be great to fic with. Colby certainly needed guidance in this story and Bradford (and of course Ian) was a key source for him. Always good to have a 'tell it like it is' person in your court.

[1trackmind]

I wish Bradford would come back.

Me, too. But it's early yet. I imagine we haven't seen the last of him.