Safe - Chapter 21

[indyhat]

Characters: Peter/Claude-centric ensemble
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Word count: 1,200ish.
Spoilers: AU; at most 1.06 ("Better Halves"), but not really.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine but the words.
Summary: Holocaust-era Heroes
A/N: We're back! Today catches up with Claire, and provides her with some back-story.  ( Previous chapters)

For a long time, Clara had

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[cucumber_k]

Not dull at all, dear!

Poor Clara, reproachful pickles are a scary thought. You made Zach a physics geek! That's so cool. What's Clara gonna do alone? Don't let anything evil happen to her.

[indyhat]

LOL @ reproachful pickles! You see, it wasn't like that in my head. But now, Clara will be haunted by ghostly pickle-jars everywhere she goes ...

... well, OK, maybe not ;)

I'm glad Zach being a physics geek works for people ;)

And Clara isn't going to be alone for long ... though I can't promise that nothing bad will happen to her (sorry, hun).

While I have you, dear, can you help me out? You mentioned that Claude would like Schopenhauer and one other philosopher, and for the life of me, I can't remember whom. Do you mind if I rummage through your brain?

(No, I'm not writing back-story. Why would I do that? Why? *whistles innocently*)

[cucumber_k]

God, I can't remember either, but Kierkegaard was just as gloomy, the man wrote The Concept of Dread and The Sickness Unto Death; and probably Sartre, no, wait, I dont think he had many books before the 50's, or at least mid 40's, so let's forget about him. But something tells me Claude would probably love Kafka, with all that being different in an ordinary world. (Back-story?! *wants*)

[indyhat]

I don't think Kirkegaard was one of the names mentioned ... I'm looking at Goethe, (wasn't who you mentioned either), and thinking that he's definitely more Peter's cup of tea ... oh, and Schiller, too! And oh no, now I've got Peter listening to Beethoven, which Claude thinks is populist and therefore vulgar ;)

Kafka I like as something Claude would read. Definitely :)

Thanks!

(there was another writer you mentioned ... someone who had a history of being in gay relationships, at least in a closet way ... and now I can't remember who!)

[cucumber_k]

Arthur Rimbaud!

Lol, it's sad that the memory was triggered by the mention of closeted gay relationships.

[indyhat]

You genius, that was it! And yes, hee :)

Thanks ... have added it to my (copious) notes.

[cucumber_k]

Beethoven is angty love! Silly Claude. But everything goes as long as they don't listen to Bach cuz, well, that's what nazis listened to.

[indyhat]

I had an awful moment the other day when I wondered if the Nazis had enjoyed Beethoven. I didn't know about Bach, actually (Wagner, though, right?)

[cucumber_k]

I think Beethoven was too passionate for nazis.

[indyhat]

Huh! Interesting take.