Of Life and Living - Book 2: Chapter 4/6

[laurelgardner]

Title: Of Life and Living - Book 2: Chapter 4/6
Author: laurelgardner
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Gil/Greg, Nick/Sara, Catherine/OMC, Warrick/OFC
Summary: Getting what you wish for can be devastating. Or perfect. Or just maybe it's both. At any rate, it ain't easy.
Author's Note/Warnings:  Some ickiness, references to child abuse and molestation, murder,

Comments

[laurelgardner]

Thanks so much. I really have worried quite a bit about Carol being a Mary Sue, since she does, as you said, have all the makings. I really only intended her to be a periferal character, someone to fill in an empty spot on night shift and to pair with Warrick in order to leave Gil and Greg as the only ones who were conspicuously unattached. But sometimes, stories have lives of their own; I just noticed that she had the scars on her hands, and it all kind of went from there.

I love that Gil is so much more deeply affected by their fight than Greg. It makes sense to me, because I've always seen Grissom as the more emotionally retarded one of the pair; even though he doesn't show it; perhaps *because* he doesn't show it. This just felt very...*real*.

Gil's an idiot-savant when it comes to emotional maturity. He actually understands people quite well, is remarkable intuitive, and is even pretty good at knowing what he's feeling himself. What he doesn't do, though, is ask, "why?"

And I don't think Gil's ever had a fight and then made up, or worked something out. So he assumes all sorts of silly things about what it means when they do have it out.