bad ideas

[scarletts_awry]

The Queen of Swords should be intensely perceptive, a keen observer, a subtle interpreter, an intense individualist, swift and accurate at recording ideas; confident in action, gracious and just in spirit… If ill-dignified, she will be cruel, sly, deceitful and unreliable. title: Bad Ideas

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[scarletts_awry]

Thank you, I very much appreciate the encouragement. :)

Yeah, Mac is a part of the negative space between them. Even if one of the slashfest claims I made weren't feeling more and more appropriate, I can tell I'm not done with the three of them.

[immortalje]

I loved it. That was really hot and I hope to see a sequel...

The end must have been the best though when Danny gets bored and starts rubbing Stella's ankle *g*

[scarletts_awry]

Thank you. There will definitely be more along these lines, though I'm not sure when.

[venetia_sassy]

“Let’s get out of here,” he says, and underneath it is fear and pleasepleaseplease.

I can't decide whether I most want to hug Danny or hit him. I was alternating between one or the other all through the story. This is all very screwed up and harsh and unfortunately believable. I'm interested to see where you go with this.

Oh, and I liked the idea of Danny going through nicotine withdrawal. He must have driven everyone insane with the fidgeting.

[scarletts_awry]

Thanks. As much as they hold their shit together in the face of the end of S2's trauma, it still strikes me as a precarious position for the lot of them, and I expect June wasn't the easiest month they'd been through, individually and collectively. This is just... one of the darker iterations of that.

I can't decide whether I most want to hug Danny or hit him

I'd say that Danny needs both right now. When he reaches a certain critical mass, he can do more harm than good--both for himself and everyone else--but even though he hasn't been in Stella's position, there's a way in which he's the best person in the lab to be able to understand it. So they end up with too much in common.

And, heh, Danny in nicotine withdrawl is one of those notions that's been knocking around my head for a while, this is just the first time I'd been able to use it.

[scarletts_awry]

They really, really are. It's not the Lab of Disfunction for nothing. :) Thanks.

[stellaluna_]

Oh. My god. I think you just broke me. Angrysex is always a good thing (as is alleysex), and this is just...*they're* so angry, and so hurt they're practically just walking raw wounds. What I particularly like, tying the story in with the Queen of Swords prompt, is how Stella *is* that keen observer, and very aware of what's going on, and at the same time there are those threads of slyness and unreliability running through her behavior. There's manipulation here, but it's happening on both sides, and they both know it. Danny's dangerous when he's hurt, but so is Stella.

Mac is always the ghost between them, and right now he's a willfully oblivious ghost, and that just increases the feeling that these two have been abandoned and are struggling just to survive.

And poor Hawkes and Lindsay, caught in the middle of all this tension.

[scarletts_awry]

So we take turns breaking each other. :D I'm pretty sure you started the cycle.

Thank you. Yeah, they really are both desperately trying to be okay, even as they know they aren't at all. It comes back to a lot of issues your Stella piece for the femgenficathon brought up ("Everybody Else's Girl"?), and how I think if anyone in the LoD can empathise it's Danny--and that's both a good and a bad thing. I've been thinking about how any possible combingation of Danny, Flack, and Stella is given to... *encouraging* one another, but in very different ways.

poor Hawkes and Lindsay, caught in the middle of all this tension.

Are they ever. I suspect Hawkes would like to have a few choice words with them both. Heh. I'm stupidly proud of myself for having four whole characters on stage in a piece.