yuletide fic: The Unloosen'd Ocean (Homicide; Russert/Howard)

[musesfool]

Title: The Unloosen'd Ocean
Author: victoria p. [victoria @ unfitforsociety.net]
Summary: Megan doesn't cry when she gets the news.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Fontana's and Levinson's and NBC's.
Notes: Thanks to luzdeestrellas and vaznetti for betaing. All remaining errors are mine. Written for erinpoetchica in the 2006 yuletide exchange. Set during the season five finale. Title from Walt

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Re: Feed back on The Unloosen'd Ocean

[musesfool]

I take it that the "shutting out" of the women detectives was done in canon? Because that, for me, is what sold the story for me - that Megan had come all this way to come back home to her "family" to bury her dead, and found herself still the prodigal daughter

Yes. That happens in canon.

femslash and a canon I'm almost entirely unfamiliar with? I'm only reading this *because* you wrote it, and I trust your writing to not waste my time.

Hee! Thank you. I appreciate it more than I can say.

the red ink of the pen writing the name of the dead

I wish I could take credit for that, but that's canon. Unsolved murders go on the board in red, solved ones go on in black. Changing the names from red to black is a big deal on the show.

I liked that what these two needed - and in the end, accepted - from each other was hugs, not sex. To this reader, that read more realistic than the sex-in-place-of-hugs that I would expect from two guys.

*nod nod*

I'm glad that worked for you. I think it's the only way to make this pairing believable, especially in this time frame - that they wouldn't really be able to connect that way, that it would just be some kind of physical solace-seeking.

it makes me wonder if I have time to find some copies of canon and watch them.

Well, the first two seasons are very short - only 12 episodes altogether, I think, and the third and fourth seasons are pretty fabulous too. I highly, highly recommend it. One of the best shows television has ever produced.

it was the title that gave you away for me.

heh. I am kind of obvious in many ways.

Thank you for the lovely feedback! I'm so glad you liked the story, especially if it isn't something you'd normally have read. *g*

Re: Feed back on The Unloosen'd Ocean

[hossgal]

No sweat. *g*

- hg