[fic] judith_88_g: Summer's Kiss
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Title: Summer's Kiss
Writer: judith_88_g
Status of work: complete
Characters and/or pairings: Jo, Ellen
Rating: PG
Warnings, kinks & contents: None.
Length: ~2700 words
Summary: After some time of hunting by herself, Jo comes to see Ellen.
Reccer's notes: The scenes of this hang together just right, and the language of the piece is just beautiful--you feel like you're doing yourself a huge favor if you take the time to just live in this prose. The fic does so well capturing how difficult independence can be, matched up with change, and love, and facing hard truths. It's a more realistic tack than outright rebellion, because things generally aren't that clean--and love keeps pieces of you back, no matter how right you know leaving is. Definitely one of my favorite pieces I've read about Jo, ever. Ever.
[Short excerpt]She thinks she’s truly a hunter now, a maladjusted, having the I-don’t-wanna-talk-about-it cliché worked down to a T type she’s seen so many times at the Roadhouse. She pictures herself at one of the tables, a grim-looking figure buried in appalling newspaper clippings and cigarette smoke and vapors of cheap whiskey, and the thought makes her giggle like a maniac until they are tears that get squished out of her eyes.