[fic] the pacific - the good things in life

[augustbird]

Title: the good things in life
Fandom: The Pacific
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 8,377
Characters/Pairing: Ack Ack/Hillbilly
Summary: President Haldane doesn’t need a First Lady. He has Edward Jones. AU
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters--they are based off of the actors' portrayals of characters in HBO's The Pacific, not the real people

Comments

[moonlight1314]

Okay, finally read and re-read and I loved it. Oh my gosh.

Okay so: THE CHARACTERIZATION WAS A SPOT ON AS ALWAYS. <33 It was just <33. I could see the characters doing everything you said (and it was very easy to do). :)

The relationship(s). omg that relationship!!!! Just the feeling it gives. the amount of spoken and unspoken things along with the gestures/ touches (or lack there of) made a beautiful relationship. And they way I imagined them interacting in their everyday lives (moving along the halls, sitting in the plane and cars, in meetings, going for a jog [which Eddie might sometimes join in on]). And that was just the feeling of Eddie/Andy's relationship! Eddie's relationship with ADDY was :DDD I just wanted to hug them! And now thinking of it I just got a really weird image of Eddie reading Addy a bed story when she was littler and IT IS ADORABLE. The whole family relationship was brilliant too.

I didn't know if I'd like Addy but she was just too cute. :) You made her really likeable and I wanna get to konw her more. How she grew up, how she'll be as a teenager, how she and Mom will get along, her as a flower girl at the wedding... It goes on and on.

The magazine articles you placed in along with the media files are lovely. :) They read just like a real articles. And Andy's letter... ;A; AWW. I made me sad to see he left but I LOL'ed at his signature. I'm curious about that though. Did he leave without Eddie knowing or not?

I really can't wait to see this 'verse expand. I mean I can see it: Addy childhood stories (like that bedtime story one I just imagined, or learning how to walk, first bike ride, FIRST BOYFRIEND), reelection, Charity events that they have to attend, collegeee (for the whole family)-- Everywhere leads to somewhere else! :) Thank you for the wonderful story. I'm really looking forward to the future of this! :)

PS. Derrick had me LMFAO. HIS WHOLE EMAIL. I was dying! I have a very good poker face, Eddie, I learned from the best (and this doesn’t include the time you drugged me with acid, you motherfucker). THIS AND THE HITLERSTACHE. JESUS. I can't read your stuff at night anymore or I'm gonna wake up teh whole house!

[augustbird]

omg this comment kajsdiofasd THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT I'VE GOTTEN LIKE, EVER LOLOL. <333

fuck i love these boys so much. <333 thank you so much for reassuring me that you could visualize everything in this fic and could read behind the lines to everything that was unwritten too! there's just so much backstory that i wasn't able to incorporate into this fic for the sake of tight writing and just knowing that it worked okay--such a huge sigh of relief. <3333

haha yeah addy's a lot more complicated than i initially thought she would be--but considering she's lost a mom and her dad was barely around and eddie hung out with her more during her childhood than anyone else, i think it'd make sense that she'd latch on to him and that he'd be the only one to really understand how to talk to her. so hell yeah eddie would be the one reading her bedtime stories and she'd just sit there and clutch her stuffed rabbit and at the end she'll say good night and ask if her daddy's going to be home soon and eddie will just sadface at her and yell at andy the next time he sees him and andy will try to make more of an effort but he's always so tired from all of his meetings and he tries to get away with reading lobby statistics to addy who just fidgets and gets bored and eddie's like "wow that is not at all even a children's book are you kidding me? if we're going to read her statistics at least we could read her quarterly earnings from the reports i have to file next week," and then he takes back over reading to addy and andy feels guilty guilty guilty.

IE. YES THAT WOULD HAPPEN.

re: your question
eddie didn't know that andy was going to be gone in the morning but considering how often andy opens his eyes at 4am and scrolls blearily through his emails before finding himself on a surprise trip to paris 30 min later, eddie's gotten used to it. xD <3

ANYWAYS, THERE'S LIKE A MILLION WAYS THAT THIS VERSE CAN EXPAND AND YOUR IDEAS ARE ALL WONDERFUL AND SOMETHING I WILL TOTALLY LOOK INTO INCORPORATING. <3333

thank you so much for leaving such a lovely comment, you are seriously the best. <333333 :DD

[moonlight1314]

SO MY ORIGINAL COMMENT GOT ERASED BECAUSE I AM AN IDIOT BUT IT'S NOTHING I CAN RETYPE:

haha yeah addy's a lot more complicated than i initially thought she would be--but considering she's lost a mom and her dad was barely around and eddie hung out with her more during her childhood than anyone else, i think it'd make sense that she'd latch on to him and that he'd be the only one to really understand how to talk to her. so hell yeah eddie would be the one reading her bedtime stories and she'd just sit there and clutch her stuffed rabbit and at the end she'll say good night and ask if her daddy's going to be home soon and eddie will just sadface at her and yell at andy the next time he sees him and andy will try to make more of an effort but he's always so tired from all of his meetings and he tries to get away with reading lobby statistics to addy who just fidgets and gets bored and eddie's like "wow that is not at all even a children's book are you kidding me? if we're going to read her statistics at least we could read her quarterly earnings from the reports i have to file next week," and then he takes back over reading to addy and andy feels guilty guilty guilty.

OH MY GOD. THIS WHOLE THING RIGHT HERE. ALL OF IT. it makes me saddddddd-- ANDYYYYY. (although! when addy started showing skills in money management and became student council treasurer when she got to boarding school, eddie was like "WTF, I read her Shakespeare, not Accounting for Dummies...," eddie that andy had been feeling guilty guilty guilty and had come in to read to her after he came home and eddie went to bed, it was STILL financial reports and he mumbled how to fix them, eddie swatted andy but no harm was done [addy sometimes plays the stock market for fun and balances the books]) xDDDDDD I NEED TO MAKE A PIC-SPAM/ PHOTOSHOP THING OF THIS. I WOULD HAVE DONE IT NOW BUT LEON FORD IS AN ELUSIVE MOTHAFLUFFER. JAMES IS EASIER TO FIND PICTURE OF THANK GOD.

(IE?)

Impromptu trip to Paris? and somehow andy just happens to be there too? and the eiffel tower is closed for the day???? ;)

HAPPY TO HELP AND SOMETIMES MY MIND RUNS AWAY WITHOUT ME BUT IF IT GIVES IDEAS THEN GOOD. <333 ilu.