I Saw Her Standing There Chapter 7/10

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Disclaimer: I own naught, I know naught, and I'm just mucking about.

I finally decided this will be a short story, and 10 chapters is all I think it needs. I only want to show the highlights of their relationship.

Thanks to jonesingjay for encouraging me once again to just go with my gut and not think a thing into oblivion, and thanks to mollybeakers for encouraging me

Comments

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Thanks for commenting!

I know it's a short story but it's not meant to be longer than it is. The present day is required to be as short as it is because I didn't want to go outside the unfortunately limited time frame October into ...Mid-November and then word in December that Maureen has passed on. And I've had it in my head from day one that the past would be a summer thing, no longer than a few months.It's a 'highlight reel' of sorts.

Yeah, the masturbation scene I needed to show that Alice is in charge- all too often, with an OC the elder or more famous or both holds the power in fic- and that she wouldn't just be saying she was ready for that step. And that seemed the best way. If Alice couldn't touch herself, understand her own body, how in all of creation could she appreciate and be properly ready for someone else to touch her.

Interesting that something considered by many factions to be not so innocent can come off as innocent but I really wanted it to be more about the physical extension of an emotional connection than just jumping in bed. A first time should be special, and I'm glad it came across as that to you. It's very much an exploration, whether Alice knows it consciously or not, a process of discovering her true self -both that she's into women and in more general terms of sex/intimacy.

I don't particularly enjoy PWP especially with OCs, sex should be from a deeper place than just getting off. Not always but certainly a first time. So I'm glad that the intimate scenes come off as something more than just about porn.

And as for the Ringo factor, his absence is indeed as important as if he was present. Physical or emotionally. I'm not trying to make him out to be a bad guy, and I don't think an affair is ever fully right, but I don't think he was as attentive a husband as he could have been, (not that The Beatles weren't hugely busy and by all accounts Ringo was very attentive but he's no saint and probably swimming along in the booze quite a bit in the mid-60s, starting pot and other drugs) and I don't think it's fair that the women are always expected to be pining away at home and never so much as look in fic. And I definitely don't think there is enough femmeslash out there, full stop.

There is much weight on the fact that a younger woman can satisfy Maureen better than her husband, even if not physically, there is an aspect of emotional release to be considered. I'm glad it comes of naturally for Maureen- again, no saint- to be involved in an affair. She's careful with her words, but she has her reasons and because of the POV being Alice's, we may not know them, but it's not a revenge affair (I see that in most fic and those always feel forces), it's an affair of exploration for her too. In a different way but still some discoveries.

I'm very glad it's all coming off natural to you.

The italics- honestly, I just wrote on autopilot, I always write flashbacks in italics, and I just automatically clicked the little 'i' and didn't stop. I wish it were more deep than that, but it's not, LOL.

Thank you so much for your kind and insightful comments.