Being Human: Requiem For a Jerk [Cutler]
Title: “Requiem For a Jerk”
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: pre-series 4
Summary: Aside from planning to take over the world and missing Hal, Nick Cutler does… absolutely nothing. [Cutler/Rachel, Hal/Cutler]
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC.
A/N: I don’t even know what it was supposed to be, let alone what it ( Read more... )
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: pre-series 4
Summary: Aside from planning to take over the world and missing Hal, Nick Cutler does… absolutely nothing. [Cutler/Rachel, Hal/Cutler]
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC.
A/N: I don’t even know what it was supposed to be, let alone what it ( Read more... )
Sorry, I went into a coma sometimes after the Master populated the planet with his clones. Or was it the pink dress? the red dog collar? the Doctor strapped to the chair?
Anyway, the fic. The quintenssential Cutler fic. I'm out of adjectives to describe my joy.
Fantastic! ... wait, wrong Doctor.
Yes, this.
Now, moving on.
I'll have to contain myself and not quote all the fic line by line THOUGH I AM TEMPTED.
Rat poison ftw! This wins over bad milk :D
Long, bleak and Russian, a novel under a very appropriate title. He’s been reading it for almost two years now, a few paragraphs a day, taking intervals sometimes or switching to less ponderous stories oh my god, Niiiick!
The fic would have made me feel sad about Nick if not for these grin-inducing moments XD
“Hi,” she says, “I’m Adele. Like the pop star.” She giggles, and he almost says: seriously? “I was wondering if-.”
He slams the door in her face. It’s not that he’s not up for it. She’s clearly a new face; no one would even miss her.
I could just picture this in my head :D
“It’s you-don’t-make-a-mess-you-can’t-clean-up o’clock!” Fergus snaps.
daaamn, gurl, how is your Fergus always so perfect???
Nick’s imaginary conversation with Hal <3
Fifty-five years of solitude, and Cutler still can’t get used to it. Before that, there was Hal. Before Hal, Rachel. Before her, nothing really: college, the war, school, the usual string of high points of an average human life. Now there are cracks in the ceiling, an empty flat and the stale taste of blood clinging to the roof of his mouth. beautiful and haunting writing.
Dunno, I liked that Rachel and Nick had a fight - Rachel had all the reasons to snap! Makes their relationship seem more real and less of a frozen snapshot.
Half a century later that would go on Twitter with the hashtag #ThingsIHateAboutHalYorke. Awesome))) You remembered about Hal making Nick read poetry!
He catches a James Bond film on the telly and imagines himself playing the lead role
If life had been a musical, he would have broken out into a tearful, self-pitying song.
Oh, of course he imagines his life as a movie, musical, etc :)
“Not if you’re late for work though.”
aww, I like it when Rachel teases Nick.
The last cute domestic scene made me smile and then came punch to the gutNot bad for the last day of his life.
The circular structure is very elegant.
“I said,” Regus reiterates, “you’ve got blood on your shirt.”
Cutler looks down. Just a few stains, but - shit. He sighs irritably. Looks closer. Cocks his head.
“Hey. That’s Ursa Minor right there. Wouldn’t you say?”
Nick no longer lies about the blood on his shirt and he’s completely alone but what else has changed?
Gorgeous story, dear <333
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LOL, soon I'll be making the lost of all the things Nick poured into Griffin's tea. I bet there were many))
Yeeeah, Nick is not a reader. Not by a long shot. >_< He probably thinks his law books are more fun than Dostoevsky)))
LMAO, so it doesn't make you feel sad? Damn))))) B/c it nearly tore my heart out while I was writing, esp. all the Rachel scenes. I can't handle domestic angst)) But yeah, it was necessary.
XDDD THIS is totally the Nick/womenfolk theme song)))
NO IDEA, is he perfect? XDD I can't help it, I love Fergus. He definitely grew on me throughout all the multiple attempts to write him and several rewatches)))
Nick meets Buffyworse yet again. Nick Cutler the Musical: full of sappy, soulful ballads of how he wants that statue. I'll never let go of that, not even after the fic where he gets one...
Funny how Hal lectures and mocks him even in his fantasies. O_o That's real love!
I wanted to write out a bigger scene with the poetry, but this time Nick wanted a fic that was more about him than his relationships with people. XDDD
The saddest part is that nothing has changed. Canon shows that he does miss Rachel and he does want Hal back. Woe is Nick. Eternal slave to his love. XDDDD
I'm happy you liked it! Now I can hoooopefully focus on Panic Station.
Thaaank you for reading! <3333
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