This was super sweet! I have to say, if the season proceeded with the same level unresolved tension between Ben and Leslie, I think it would drive me insane. In a good way! Really, really good way, because this feels entirely genuine and not at all over the top. But oh my god, when I read this, I try to see myself watching this from week to week and lord, I don't know how well I'd be able to handle it, haha. But that's good on you, because this story is very exciting! ;)
Thanks for the comment! Yes, as I progressed with writing this, it became clearer to me why the writers wrapped things up more quickly than this. Baby Lilah is the same age as the breakup, and yes, it's been seven months. It's a long haul.
Not to worry, though - in the next chapter, Ben leaves Pawnee to become the Muncie Assistant City Manager, and Leslie meets a nice lawyer that she decides she likes well enough to hang out with for a while. KIDDING.
(Really glad you're hanging in there with me as I string these poor idiots along.)
LOL. He got himself a new job and he chose Muncie, Indiana?
I was actually really surprised they had them get back together on the show as quickly as they did. I can definitely see the appeal of keeping up the angst. As evinced by your fic!
I'm going out on a limb and guessing that Muncie isn't exactly a bustling, exciting metropolis? I've only ever driven through a sliver of Indiana, and the gas station northeast of Gary was a dump, I will say, and it was full of people who make the denizens of a Pawnee town forum look like the cast of Gossip Girl.
Looking back, on the show they kept them so very very off-balance for so long - since they met, in some ways, although much more intensely from Road Trip through to Smallest Park in terms of their relationship (and beyond that in terms of them negotiating life after the fallout of their relationship). But it was resolved fairly early in season 4 after the hiatus of it feeling like it was dangling off the precipice... And with a couple like this, I can see the appeal of saying, OK, let's get on with it, they're great to write for together, so let's get them together.
I have literally no idea at all, I've never been to Indiana. Friends of mine have toured through some small town there with their band and what they said sounded every bit like what you said. But this reminds me that I'm going to be in the US soon and I've a friend who's relocated to Indianapolis, whom I thought I might ask how he'd feel about a visit ... you know, because my obsession with the show is not obvious enough yet, hah.
Yeah, I'm definitely not complaining. I thought it was incredibly well done to have Leslie spinning out of control and sabotaging both their lives for three episodes. I was totally unspoiled at the time, so by Smallest Park it got almost painful to watch and I felt like they were starting, only just starting, to overdo it with their focus on it. But then she turned it around and suddenly it made so much sense why it all had to happen that way. It was just surprising because this is not like things happen on other tv shows, I don't think. Seems they usually milk that UST for all it's worth.
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Not to worry, though - in the next chapter, Ben leaves Pawnee to become the Muncie Assistant City Manager, and Leslie meets a nice lawyer that she decides she likes well enough to hang out with for a while. KIDDING.
(Really glad you're hanging in there with me as I string these poor idiots along.)
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I was actually really surprised they had them get back together on the show as quickly as they did. I can definitely see the appeal of keeping up the angst. As evinced by your fic!
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Looking back, on the show they kept them so very very off-balance for so long - since they met, in some ways, although much more intensely from Road Trip through to Smallest Park in terms of their relationship (and beyond that in terms of them negotiating life after the fallout of their relationship). But it was resolved fairly early in season 4 after the hiatus of it feeling like it was dangling off the precipice... And with a couple like this, I can see the appeal of saying, OK, let's get on with it, they're great to write for together, so let's get them together.
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Yeah, I'm definitely not complaining. I thought it was incredibly well done to have Leslie spinning out of control and sabotaging both their lives for three episodes. I was totally unspoiled at the time, so by Smallest Park it got almost painful to watch and I felt like they were starting, only just starting, to overdo it with their focus on it. But then she turned it around and suddenly it made so much sense why it all had to happen that way.
It was just surprising because this is not like things happen on other tv shows, I don't think. Seems they usually milk that UST for all it's worth.
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