About Today, for tryfanstone

[amand_r]

Title: About Today
Author: hafital
Written for: tryfanstone
Characters/Pairings: D/M (ish) (can be read as Duncan & Methos)
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 3,684
Summary: The door swung open, revealing the quay and the lights of Paris just winking into existence one by one as the sky darkened. MacLeod did not step through. He didn't know what made him stop, and look back.

Comments

[pat_t]

I love how you weaved reality with the unknown possibilities. So many things in our lives could be different due to simple choices in our lives. Do we stay or go? So glad that they both ended up in one another's arms.

[hafital]

Thank you, my dear. :)

[just_ustas]

o, this is verrry good story! it's like come back to dear and very old friends. so much joy. but you made me worried during those dramatic lines... and so hope in the end. thank you for this. and i like your play with lights and colours. it was beautifully made. just what i neded for christmas days.

and ho ho, today is winter solstice - birthday of duncan macleod of the clan macleod :)

[hafital]

Sorry to worry you! I'm glad it reminded you of dear old friends. *g* That's exactly how I think of HL. Thanks for commenting!

[hafital]

Hi! Thank you for commenting!

[tryfanstone]

Oh good lord, Sun-dried Candycanes, your butterfly flapped its wings and the world changed.

I love this so very much - it's so clever, the intersecting timelines and viewpoints, the moments when small things change the future, the endless possibilities. How on earth you worked it out - I see you with spreadsheets? - it's an amazing piece of technical construction and I love this to bits for the whole idea. I've never seen this done before to such effect - or with such resonance, in this fandom - and I admire you so very much for the writing.

That's the construction. But the words too are lovely, your motifs of sunlight at all times of the day, your food (tomatoes =/= blood?) your unspoken affection - but most of all the way your make all of these things reoccur. I love your

"That was just a dream. This is reality." MacLeod's voice was low. He stepped forward and the light from the sun faded, blocked by a passing cloud. "I said I'd always find you, didn't I?"which seems to sum up the whole story, over and over again, so very well

[hafital]

\o/

I was mighty relieved you liked it. Unovis assured me. lol. Am thinking of taking up the moniker 'sun-dried candy canes' from now on.

There were no spreadsheets. But I've been chewing on the idea behind this story for a while.

Happy New Year!

[ranuel]

Stunningly well constructed. I'm happy they ended up safe together but it still feels as if the other possible futures happened somewhere.

[hafital]

Thanks for commenting! Happy New Year. :)