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Fic: Gone With the Rebels of Heart (Tom/Danielle, PG-13) - 14valentines

Feb 15, 2009 01:17

Title : Gone With the Rebels of Heart
Author : atomichatred82
Pairing : Tom/Danielle, implied Tom/Sean
Rating : PG-13
Word Count : 1,908
Author's Note : Written for 14valentines Day 14: International ( Read more... )

14valentines, getyourwordsout, het, pairing: tom/danielle, fic: empires

Comments 25

liketheroad February 14 2009, 18:36:27 UTC

<33333 Lovely!

valmontheights February 14 2009, 18:37:51 UTC

<33 Thanks, bb.

novalinedy February 14 2009, 19:13:54 UTC

This was really good, I liked it!

valmontheights February 15 2009, 02:00:33 UTC

Thank you!

halighanawfulie February 14 2009, 19:31:52 UTC

This was so beautifully written. And I love your attention to detail.
I love it. and that's it :)

valmontheights February 15 2009, 02:00:47 UTC

I'm glad you liked it. :)

nahemaraxe February 14 2009, 19:41:03 UTC

Aw ♥

As I was saying on AIM, you hit the target, dead center. Your Danielle is beautiful, the rock on which they lean on, Max first - the child part, 'don't lose him in the crowd' - then Tom, and still she has to be left behind. It makes sense, but it also saddens me a little.

The thing is, they'll come back, but they'll come back changed. They won't be the same anymore. She knows it, we know it, and it's right, ok? It's how things are supposed to be. People change, people grow. But. But.

My heart aches a little.

valmontheights February 15 2009, 02:03:07 UTC

Oh, bb. ♥

I think she worries more for Tom than she does for Max in this one, after all she's been with Tom through some really tough times and has seen him come apart, and now he's starting anew, with her brother no less, and she intuitively knows everything is different this time but it doesn't stop her worrying.

harborshore February 14 2009, 22:36:43 UTC

Thank you for acknowledging this: not waving her hand to bid them goodbye because she's not some 50's housewife in an apron sending her children off to school or her husband to work. It's a hard story to tell, this one, because there's so much romanticism in the musician-going-off-on-tour, and here, with the little brother and the boyfriend who needs someone else, it's heartbreaking instead or--I don't know if I'm making sense. My heart wants more Danielle, getting to see who she is outside of who she waits for, but I think that's my innate rebellion against this kind of trope. I love this and I hate it. ...man, way to not make sense. All this to say: marvelously done. You're amazing.

valmontheights February 15 2009, 02:12:07 UTC

Aww, thank you.

And you make perfect sense. I questioned whether I was lumping her in with the whole 'girlfriend-left-behind' trope, which I didn't want, but I knew this is one journey even she realizes she has to sit out of, that the road was Tom's and Max's and not hers, that she has her own life to live.

Really appreciate the comment. It means a lot. ♥