blueberry yoghurt and rhubarb

[ninablues]

Story: Timeless { backstory | index }

Title: Ghost

Rating: G/PG (mild language)

Challenge: Blueberry Yoghurt #14: a miracle, Rhubarb ‘My Treat’ #22: long time, no see (Rosalind comes to the future)

Toppings/Extras: none

Wordcount: 640

Summary: Lord Ashdown meets a ghost. Or she was supposed to be.

Notes: Wow. I feel sort of sorry for Ashdown. That’s not

Comments

[ninablues]

Thank you! I think that this is Newson's jerkiest moment... well, apart from shooting Simmins I guess.

[ninablues]

I guess he is a lot more interesting when he's not his usual smug self. The thing about writing Ashdown is that there's this big balance to get right-- he's not a nice guy, but he is the main protagonist and the reader is meant to be on Team Ashdown even though he does some pretty jerkish stuff himself.

These moments of weakness/loss are meant to sort of help the reader sympathise with him. XDD Thanks!

[smoothiegarten]

:( There's no shame in giving up to protect a loved one, Ashdown. Still...

(I am SO GLAD Pia is going to destroy him)

[niee87]

Aww, Ashdown! Rosalind sounds adorable and I love his thoughts about how Newson beat him - it really does, as the others said, get right into his soul. Newson deserves what's coming to him and it's only too bad it doesn't happen sooner! Also, love the description of a face as gaudy :D

[ninablues]

Haha yeah... "gaudy" comes to me so much with Newson... he's a bit of a victim to plastic surgery and the word seemed to fit. XD Thanks!

[bookblather]

Plz to be dying in a fire right now, Newson, kthx. I feel so bad for Ashdown, and even worse for poor Rosalind. She has no idea what she's just been hauled into. Poor baby.

Really good job on your part! I really felt Ashdown's indignation and fear and rage.