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karolja

Toy Soldiers: Expectations (PG-13)

Dec 28, 2010 05:45

Summary: "He always seemed like the best of us, you know?"
Notes/Warnings: Next up, in Christmas-to-New-Year's. Post-canon. Dark. See cut after the story for details if you want 'em.

( Senior year at Harvard ain't easy. )

fanfic100, fandom: toy soldiers

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irisbleufic December 28 2010, 20:38:52 UTC

(Funny, I didn't see the warning, either, but I knew what was coming anyway. I think "dark" had something to do with it. Not that warnings ever work on me...)

Sad and lovely. I wonder what the note to Joey said.

karolja December 29 2010, 00:31:42 UTC

I honestly don't know. Part of the thing with writing this story was that it couldn't include Billy's voice: I can guess at what was going through his head as things progressed, but it's only a guess, and I'm not sure I want to know for sure.

I'm glad it worked for you.

irisbleufic December 31 2010, 16:29:05 UTC

Well, no, it couldn't: his very absence is why the piece is so effective.

(By the by: I'm sure Steph remembered, but on the off-chance she didn't, I bought you Sherlock Season 1 on DVD and sent it along for a Christmas present. It's really a gift for the whole house, but you're the one who exposed me to Conan Doyle canon in the first place, and it seemed a shame to hear you haven't at all seen this new adaptation!)

karolja December 29 2010, 00:27:50 UTC

:wry: If it's any consolation, at least one of my betas insists that she was insufficiently warned before reading the story, which is part of the reason for the doubled warnings. (So far as I recall, I sent it to her with the note 'so this is the suicide story,' which I would've thought would be enough, but she said no.) She made me write her fluff, which is going to be tomorrow's offering. I'm glad this story worked for you!

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