Fic: The Crowing - Katie, Naomi/Emily
Regrets, Katie often thought, were things not worth having. It was fucking pointless worrying about the past, especially when it certainly must have made sense at the time to do whatever it was you did, otherwise you would never have done it.
There had been so many times when she’d made Emily cry, like if Katie left school without her to walk with ( Read more... )
There had been so many times when she’d made Emily cry, like if Katie left school without her to walk with ( Read more... )
I love the role Effy’s playing in this so far. Her obvious talent for people watching and just general perception of what’s going on with the people around her came across really well. I like how Katie’s immediate reaction was to downplay it and sort of snuff Effy off with a snarky remark, only to have Effy be blunt in a kind way and actually get her to think about what happened and what it all might mean.
I like how you painted Katie with this sort of, lingering guilt, and made it out like she thought Naomi was coping well with keeping it all hidden from Emily until the realisation just came crashing down on her and she understood that, no, she’s not the only one struggling with the whatever it is that’s between them, and Naomi’s inability to not be such a dick, may end up being their downfall.
There are so many little details scattered throughout this that made me love it all the more, the first one being how Effy and Katie were able to laugh about what had happened at Gobbler’s end.
Maybe that’s what all of this was, though. One big cosmological joke that the world was playing on Katie. And, fine. If she was going to talk to Naomi then she might as well be fucking drunk for it. It was how they always did everything anyway. - It makes sense to me that Katie, once slightly over her anger, would see everything that has happened or is happening as a joke. It’s like the poor girl can’t catch a break, ever! And the part about the always being drunk made me LOL because these Skins kids sure do like to have a bottle in hand no matter what they’re doing ;)
My second favourite moment is an obvious one, Katie and Naomi in the garden at the party. Just wow! I literally could feel the tension in that moment where it all just clicked into place, not only for Katie, but for Naomi too, where they both realise and kind of admit not only what happened at the club, but also that whatever that moment had been, it’s left traces of itself behind.
My third favourite moment actually made me squee a little bit - Naomi trailing her pinkie down Katie’s thigh - I love how it’s such a small gesture, and yet it speaks volumes in terms of where this all may be headed if they’re not careful. Drink does tend to loosen people’s true inhibitions, and I can only hope (sorry Emily) that there will be more alcohol shared moments between them soon!
Oh, Katie and her hope that everything will be okay at the end made me feel a little sad, because nothing ever goes the way you hope it will, and I can only guess that she’s going to be in for quite a shock when they all go back to college and she realises that Emily and Naomi will be up in her business more than she’d like.
Did I mention that I love this fic in my ramblings? Well I do, and it really can’t be said enough!
Really looking forward to seeing how this disastrous set of events will unfold. It’ll be so wrong it’ll be right ;)
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Yay for Effy! She's not gonna take any shit from Katie and is just so much better at reading things than Katie is that it just forces Katie to listen. So, I like to think that their friendship will make sense, here. It seems to be working so far!
I'm glad that you picked up on how Katie thinks that she's the only one freaking out, and that Naomi is just doing it while she can't see. I don't think that Naomi would particularly like keeping a secret from Emily but one like this would just ruin everything so she has to keep schtum, and Naomi's pretty shit at concealing when she's floundering so it'll come out in some sort of repressed anger/sulkiness.
Naomi's totally on thin ice at the moment, with both Emily and Katie. And Katie, well, she doesn't want any of this and the fact that she can't make it go away is going to make her feel guilty, now that she's becoming more sensitive to the people around her. I think so, anyway.
At some point Katie's going to have to laugh about what a state she's in, and yeah, how she just can't have an easy ride these days at all! Maybe things will get better for her soon...
The Katie/Naomi scenes in this just write themselves (though it's hard for me to restrain myself from just letting them go at it!) and I don't imagine they'll manage to not end up getting hammered again sometime soon... because it's fun and I can mess with them.
Hehe, I like that despite knowing that there's a chance that Emily's basically about to get screwed over massively you still WANT THIS. I definitely do. Besides, Emily's getting some all over the place in Skins fandom (and, to be fair, on the show) so it's only fair that Katie gets the chance now. Possibly. In the future. I'M SAYING NOTHING!
Love you times a gabillion. <3
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