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Fic: "Burn Your Mansion To The Ground (Five Ways Lyla Garrity Leaves Dillon)" (FNL)

Dec 23, 2007 15:06

Burn Your Mansion To The Ground
(Five Ways Lyla Garrity Leaves Dillon)

Thanks to likeadeuce and romanticalgirl for read-overs and help. Title from Tom Waits, "Hold On." Exactly 1250 words, because the first section I wrote hit 250 words and so then they all had to, because I'm crazy.

( Burn Your Mansion To The Ground )

fic_2007, fic_fnl

Comments 31

likeadeuce December 23 2007, 21:15:48 UTC

Oh, LYLA.

I love this: "She's offering her best smile, her cheer smile, twice as bright for God as for the Panthers." And I love her getting mad at the hypocrisy of the media-packaged religion, just like she gets pissed off at all other kinds of hypocrisy.

The last section is a perfect one to end on, because in a way it's both the most conventional, and the one with the most possibility. I love the image of Lyla with her hair cut, bundled in a scarf, and the way it ends on the idea of memories.

Gorgeous, I'm so glad you wrote this, and that it's Lyla Garrity day on LJ!!

inlovewithnight December 23 2007, 21:23:10 UTC

::twirls you:: I'm glad you liked it! Lyla could go a lot of ways, it was fun to play with them.

Lyla will totally take a law degree as a means to make a *lot* of people do things her way. Hee.

harmonyangel December 23 2007, 21:25:33 UTC

Ohhh, this is very, very good. Number 2 scares me the most, mostly because it seems so possible, and I like the last one - particularly the last paragraph - a whole lot. And the fourth! And, well, ok, I love it all. Great work.

inlovewithnight December 23 2007, 21:27:11 UTC

Thank you!

I have a feeling Lyla would spend about a week running around with the guitar player, get fed up with him, and ditch him somewhere. And land on her feet. She does that.

likeadeuce December 23 2007, 21:27:55 UTC

Now I want to write Rosalita-POV fic for romanticalgirl's challenge.

inlovewithnight December 23 2007, 21:28:22 UTC

I endorse this plan!

Thread 5

resolute December 23 2007, 21:55:02 UTC

Oh sweet jiminey crickets.

Bloody hells, woman. That all hurts.

inlovewithnight December 23 2007, 21:58:13 UTC

::sends chocolate!::

Thanks. :)

anonymous_sibyl December 23 2007, 22:11:30 UTC

Oh, the ending. but mostly she misses how there were reminders everywhere you looked, maps hidden in everything. I love them all, of course, but the last one just got me with how it's so Lyla and so every one of us.

I am so happy you've come over to this fandom. Yis.

inlovewithnight December 23 2007, 22:38:45 UTC

Thank you! ::twirls you::

inathunderstorm December 23 2007, 22:24:34 UTC

She misses Texas the way you miss a bruise, something that draws a mark on you, that reminds you with its ache of what you've done. She misses other things, too, of course, the warmth and her family and her church and the sky, but mostly she misses how there were reminders everywhere you looked, maps hidden in everything.

Wow, Sam,that was awesome. I love the last one the most, and I adore the one with Jason and Tim and Lyla (OT3!) running off together. I really like your Lyla here lots, and as always, your writing is simply stunning!!

inlovewithnight December 23 2007, 22:39:26 UTC

You know, that's the part I wrote first? It seems to be the bit that's striking everyone the most, which I guess makes sense, actually, the most...brain-energy-full part, or something. Hee.

Thank you!