Fic: A Fairer House than Prose (Alias, Irina Derevko)
I'm pretty sure Saturday evening is one of the worst times to post fic, but I'm feeling impatient. The long-advertised Irina Derevko fic (and the first "real" fic I've written in over a year) is finally as complete as it's going to be, so now seems like as good a time as any
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I feel the end is maybe the first time she truly achieves the goals set out by Keats' per Jack's interpretation
Oh, I quite like this! I hadn't thought of it in that way, but yes, I think it works. However contradictory the worlds she inhabited, Irina's decisions were always in service of something bigger or outside herself (at least as she framed them? I also think she can be incredibly selfish, but I felt like I couldn't quite make that work in this fic because it's a very subtle and inconsistent kidn of selfishness): she did x to achieve y goal. It's removing the goal--any goal--that changes the game, and I want to think of her finding a sense of complete self in a way she hasn't had for a very long time.
And I'd also like to think of her doing this more or less with Jack, though I'm convinced that he will never entirely trust her again, and she will never entirely trust him because she knows this. But the thing that has always killed me about their relationship is that from the beginning, they were so alike, and then she had to lie about it, and if they'd met back then as themselves--no lies, though they would have been enemies, I guess--they might have been ridiculously happy. So I would like them to spend some time together as themselves, just being themselves, because even with all the baggage, I think they deserve that. (But then again, would I love them as much if they weren't so fundamentally irreconcilable? Probably not.)
Anyway, thank you!
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