fic: [weeds] the unbearable lightness {ensemble; andy/nancy}

[slybrunette]

Title: The Unbearable Lightness
Fandom: Weeds
Characters/Pairings: Ensemble. Andy/Nancy.
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,158
Warnings: Character death.
Author's Note: I've been more or less on the fence about posting this for a day or two but I finally said what the hell and went through with it. All I can say is this is an experiment.
Summary: Future-

Comments

[gigglemonster]

Was this the fic you mentioned being worried to post last night on Tumblr? Cuz girrlll it is amazing and you didn't have a damn thing to worry about.
I wanna say that I was surprised the character death was Nancy but...I don't think I was. I mean, when you think about it, it makes a great deal of sense that she could very well end up this way. Breaks my damn heart and this whole second half was like one big huge punch to the gut (ahhhh the phone message. that part omg) but I could totally buy it.
Aside from that I actually really love that this was an ensemble piece. It's not often I read fic like that, but obviously anything you write I know I'll love lol. And I did! I especially liked all the Andy & Silas interaction and how you included little tid-bits from the promo pictures we've seen (like the grey hair). That's one of the things I'm interested in seeing in S7, is more Andy & Silas.

Now I'm getting rambly and off-topic. But basically this was definitely a successful experiment. Those last three lines are just ugh haunting and beautiful. I loved this!

[slybrunette]

Yeah, this pretty much sat in the recycle bin for an hour last night. Crisis time, girl.

You know I tried to make it surprising and sell it, but then that just did not work, so I just threw out hints here and there and said fuck it. I figure, there's an okay chance that Nancy kicks it by the end of the show, and I kind of wanted to play that out in my head. I still don't know how fine I am with that being an ending for her but it was interesting to play with.

I stopped writing ensemble a long time ago. I never thought I'd do it with Weeds and I'm still not okay with how I wrote Shane and probably never will be, but it was experimental and it gave me more of a feel for Silas at least. This is obviously set several years past those promos (and for the record? all of the other promo pictures show that the gray hair thing was a trick of light or something cause, no, it's still very obviously brown) but they definitely inspired me. I do want to see more of Andy and Silas because I find that they are very similiar in certain ways and they play well off of each other.

Basically, I'm super relieved to hear that you liked this. Thank you so, so much for reading and reviewing! ♥ ♥ ♥