Re: Cupid, Inc. (2 of 3)randomizerFebruary 28 2012, 23:01:38 UTC
Elsbeth was exasperated. “But how can we be sure what we’re doing is really helping Mrs. Florrick? I know we just get the assignments from the Potential Pairings department, but I’m worried that someone is dropping the ball somewhere. Sometimes I think I know where her story is going, but then everything suddenly changes, and I don’t have any idea what’s really going on, or what the master plan could be. I had some hopes for her when she was with Will earlier this year, but that just ended up making her even more unhappy. What was the point of it all? Why get them together, only to end it so suddenly?”
Fantasia looked a little uncomfortable. “We all just have to trust that the Arc Department has a handle on everything. They haven’t really let us down yet, have they?”
“No, not really. But I’m concerned. Sometimes I can’t even find Mrs. Florrick-she’s just plain not where she’s supposed to be. Last week someone tweeted me to bump into her near a coffee cart, just to check on how she was doing while Will was dealing with the Bar Association thing. And would you believe that she showed up twenty-one minutes late? I mean, what’s that about?”
“But she did show up-that’s the important thing.”
Elsbeth was clearly getting increasingly frustrated. “Sure, only to drop completely out of my sight for another two weeks, with no tweets from anyone at the company and no word on what I was supposed to be doing with her. It’s very hard to help Mrs. Florrick when whole weeks go by without seeing her.”
Fantasia looked stern. “Well, we have more work ahead of us, so that’s not going to be happening for awhile. You’ll be concentrating on Kalinda Sharma next.”
Elsbeth smiled. “I like that one. Have you seen those boots? What’s up with her?”
“Ostensibly tax problems, but of course it’s finally an excuse for Alicia and Kalinda to have some of the conversations that they’ve been avoiding for a year. Kalinda is key to mending Alicia’s heart. Your job is going to be to do whatever it takes to make sure that Kalinda can do that.”
“Will I be her lawyer?” Elsbeth asked this eagerly She loved being a lawyer, arguing in court. It was the best thing about the Alicia Florrick assignment. The corporate suits always gave them whatever knowledge was necessary to perform an assignment, but someone had blessed her with more legal knowledge than was strictly necessary for this one And it was really fun to use it.
Fantasia shook her head. “No, not this time. Alicia will actually be Kalinda’s lawyer, and that’s going to be a big reason that the two will be forced to talk to each other. Alicia avoids difficult conversations more than any other human being I’ve ever met, but she’ll do anything for her clients. Kalinda is a client now.”
Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)randomizerFebruary 28 2012, 23:02:30 UTC
Elsbeth appeared a little wistful. “I was really making progress with Mrs. Florrick during her first two years at Lockhart Gardner. But once she found out about Kalinda and Peter . . . we were much worse off than we’d been at the beginning of the assignment. I’ve always thought . . . there must have been something that I could have done . . .”
“No. there wasn’t.” Fantasia said it sharply, even as Elsbeth looked doubtful. “There wasn’t. We needed all that to happen. Alicia needed to be broken down entirely so we could reconstruct her heart from scratch. A patch job just wouldn’t have worked in her case. She needed her heart shattered completely.”
“And Kalinda? We broke her heart, too.”
Fantasia looked regretful for an instant. “Collateral damage. It’s unfortunate, but it happens. And of course, Kalinda was hardly blameless.”
“She didn’t deserve what she got.”
“No. But one thing I’m certain of is that Alicia and Kalinda are a package deal: we can’t help one without helping the other. That’s why I need you to turn all of your attention to Kalinda for the next couple of months. Those months are going to be crucial. Whatever else happens, they need to be friends again before either of them can move forward.”
Elsbeth nodded. “I’m on it. By the way, have you heard anything else about what might be in store for Mrs. Florrick down the road? If we’re successful, if we help her accept people again, love them again, what then? Who will she be with? Will? Kalinda? Someone else?"
Fantasia started shimmering out of sight. “You know that’s not our problem, Elsbeth. The OTP Department works all that out. I stay out of it. I’m just middle management, and there’s a lot of math involved. Good luck, and keep in touch this time!“
Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)randomizerFebruary 29 2012, 18:50:09 UTC
Thanks! I *did* think it was a terrific prompt (and such an unexpected one!). It was a lot of fun to play with the idea that everyone has been calling Elsbeth a magic fairy lawyer by making her *really* a magic fairy lawyer! :-)
Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)sweetjamieleeFebruary 29 2012, 18:32:31 UTC
So THIS is why I love ficathons so much. No one ever just sits down and decides "I think I'm going to write Elspeth/Fantasia fairy!fic today," but people get creative with the prompts, and they inspire people, and then absolute genius like THIS is born. Slow claps for you, my friend. This was DELIGHTFUL. You had me from “since you’re the only one who can see me.”:)
Things I was highly amused/squeal-ly over:
That Bar Association is one efficient organization!
Hahahahaha.
Elsbeth looked away for a moment, her eye caught by the dancing lights sparkling off of Fantasia. But then she remembered what she had been planning to say.
See, the most out-of-character thing about this whole story is that Elsbeth would not have been CONSTANTLY distracted by the shiny, and hence unable to do her important cupid work.
In the couple of centuries they’d been working together, an understanding had grown between them.
New. OTP.
I know we just get the assignments from the Potential Pairings department, but I’m worried that someone is dropping the ball somewhere. Sometimes I think I know where her story is going, but then everything suddenly changes, and I don’t have any idea what’s really going on, or what the master plan could be.
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(Also... I love that the primary communication network for the Cupid folk is Twitter.)
Ostensibly tax problems, but of course it’s finally an excuse for Alicia and Kalinda to have some of the conversations that they’ve been avoiding for a year. Kalinda is key to mending Alicia’s heart.
PREACH IT, SISTER.
“There wasn’t. We needed all that to happen. Alicia needed to be broken down entirely so we could reconstruct her heart from scratch. A patch job just wouldn’t have worked in her case. She needed her heart shattered completely.”
Whatever else happens, they need to be friends again before either of them can move forward
So I know this is mostly for amusement, but I stopped at these lines and sobbed for a moment.
“You know that’s not our problem, Elsbeth. The OTP Department works all that out.
YOU. YOU WIN THE UNIVERSE. ALL THE AWARDS GO TO YOU.
Seriously, this was all so clever and funny and complete gold. I'm so glad you decided to post it! (Also, I am now motivated to get an Elsbeth icon ASAP). I should say your first ficathon adventure was a complete success!
Re: Cupid, Inc. (3 of 3)randomizerFebruary 29 2012, 18:56:58 UTC
Wow, I'm so pleased and encouraged by what you've written that I can't think of any mock-sarcastic response. Thank you! :-) I wasn't at all sure what anyone would make of this weird little meta-fandom foray, but I had a lot of fun writing it. (And I couldn't help adding that angsty A/K heart shattery, let-them-be-friends-again stuff. That's what comes out of me these days when I do things like pay my bills and take out the garbage!)
Fantasia looked a little uncomfortable. “We all just have to trust that the Arc Department has a handle on everything. They haven’t really let us down yet, have they?”
“No, not really. But I’m concerned. Sometimes I can’t even find Mrs. Florrick-she’s just plain not where she’s supposed to be. Last week someone tweeted me to bump into her near a coffee cart, just to check on how she was doing while Will was dealing with the Bar Association thing. And would you believe that she showed up twenty-one minutes late? I mean, what’s that about?”
“But she did show up-that’s the important thing.”
Elsbeth was clearly getting increasingly frustrated. “Sure, only to drop completely out of my sight for another two weeks, with no tweets from anyone at the company and no word on what I was supposed to be doing with her. It’s very hard to help Mrs. Florrick when whole weeks go by without seeing her.”
Fantasia looked stern. “Well, we have more work ahead of us, so that’s not going to be happening for awhile. You’ll be concentrating on Kalinda Sharma next.”
Elsbeth smiled. “I like that one. Have you seen those boots? What’s up with her?”
“Ostensibly tax problems, but of course it’s finally an excuse for Alicia and Kalinda to have some of the conversations that they’ve been avoiding for a year. Kalinda is key to mending Alicia’s heart. Your job is going to be to do whatever it takes to make sure that Kalinda can do that.”
“Will I be her lawyer?” Elsbeth asked this eagerly She loved being a lawyer, arguing in court. It was the best thing about the Alicia Florrick assignment. The corporate suits always gave them whatever knowledge was necessary to perform an assignment, but someone had blessed her with more legal knowledge than was strictly necessary for this one And it was really fun to use it.
Fantasia shook her head. “No, not this time. Alicia will actually be Kalinda’s lawyer, and that’s going to be a big reason that the two will be forced to talk to each other. Alicia avoids difficult conversations more than any other human being I’ve ever met, but she’ll do anything for her clients. Kalinda is a client now.”
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“No. there wasn’t.” Fantasia said it sharply, even as Elsbeth looked doubtful. “There wasn’t. We needed all that to happen. Alicia needed to be broken down entirely so we could reconstruct her heart from scratch. A patch job just wouldn’t have worked in her case. She needed her heart shattered completely.”
“And Kalinda? We broke her heart, too.”
Fantasia looked regretful for an instant. “Collateral damage. It’s unfortunate, but it happens. And of course, Kalinda was hardly blameless.”
“She didn’t deserve what she got.”
“No. But one thing I’m certain of is that Alicia and Kalinda are a package deal: we can’t help one without helping the other. That’s why I need you to turn all of your attention to Kalinda for the next couple of months. Those months are going to be crucial. Whatever else happens, they need to be friends again before either of them can move forward.”
Elsbeth nodded. “I’m on it. By the way, have you heard anything else about what might be in store for Mrs. Florrick down the road? If we’re successful, if we help her accept people again, love them again, what then? Who will she be with? Will? Kalinda? Someone else?"
Fantasia started shimmering out of sight. “You know that’s not our problem, Elsbeth. The OTP Department works all that out. I stay out of it. I’m just middle management, and there’s a lot of math involved. Good luck, and keep in touch this time!“
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HA! Elsbeth is a damned fairy! XPPPPPP (Yes my mind just went to True Blood, but in a good way! But not their fairies....)
*rereads OTP Department & starts giggling hysterically* Oh hell yes. I would LOOOOOOOOOVE that job! XP
You are brilliant for writing this and threeguesses is awesome for instigating it!
Thanks for sharing!
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Things I was highly amused/squeal-ly over:
That Bar Association is one efficient organization!
Hahahahaha.
Elsbeth looked away for a moment, her eye caught by the dancing lights sparkling off of Fantasia. But then she remembered what she had been planning to say.
See, the most out-of-character thing about this whole story is that Elsbeth would not have been CONSTANTLY distracted by the shiny, and hence unable to do her important cupid work.
In the couple of centuries they’d been working together, an understanding had grown between them.
New. OTP.
I know we just get the assignments from the Potential Pairings department, but I’m worried that someone is dropping the ball somewhere. Sometimes I think I know where her story is going, but then everything suddenly changes, and I don’t have any idea what’s really going on, or what the master plan could be.
IHeartMeta.com
(Also... I love that the primary communication network for the Cupid folk is Twitter.)
Ostensibly tax problems, but of course it’s finally an excuse for Alicia and Kalinda to have some of the conversations that they’ve been avoiding for a year. Kalinda is key to mending Alicia’s heart.
PREACH IT, SISTER.
“There wasn’t. We needed all that to happen. Alicia needed to be broken down entirely so we could reconstruct her heart from scratch. A patch job just wouldn’t have worked in her case. She needed her heart shattered completely.”
Whatever else happens, they need to be friends again before either of them can move forward
So I know this is mostly for amusement, but I stopped at these lines and sobbed for a moment.
“You know that’s not our problem, Elsbeth. The OTP Department works all that out.
YOU. YOU WIN THE UNIVERSE. ALL THE AWARDS GO TO YOU.
Seriously, this was all so clever and funny and complete gold. I'm so glad you decided to post it! (Also, I am now motivated to get an Elsbeth icon ASAP). I should say your first ficathon adventure was a complete success!
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