Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]threeguessesMarch 1 2012, 21:29:48 UTC
She plans afterwards, when it comes out, when Will and Elsbeth start side-eyeing her inside the courthouse. She shrugs at Elsbeth, and takes Will with her up the hallway towards the doors.
“I fucked up,” she tells him. He blinks at the swear and not the sentiment, which is exactly what Kalinda intended. “But we can use it.”
(She would have told him earlier, honestly, except for how disgustingly revealing it all is. She’s tipped her hand, hugely, and now she just wants it all swept under the rug.)
Still: “It was Alicia,” she says. Will nods like that’s explanation enough.
*
Afterwards, they raid his private stash rather than drink the sickly-sweet champagne the paralegals are serving up in plastic cups. His office feels more like a fishbowl than usual, dark inside with the lights and noise of the party all around. Kalinda’s heels sink into the carpet.
“You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over.
“You should call her,” Kalinda fires back. It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
“No.” Will looks very serious. “It should be you.”
Later, he makes her dance with him. Kalinda lets him twirl her, just once, because he’s a little drunk and it’s his night. No one’s watching anyway. “That’s my girl,” he says when she haltingly stutters back around.
Re: Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]mightbefoundMarch 2 2012, 00:28:36 UTC
Who cares if it's late? This is totally awesome! Absolutely worth the wait and more.
Seriously, I love that you took something that bothered me about Dana blackmailing Kalinda--the fact that the threat seemed so tenuous, when you stop and think about it--and turned it into the It of the story. And that you played so with Kalinda and the file--I appreciate that the writers left Kalinda's plan/motivation there up for interpretation, because I love your interpretation (and Will and Kalinda bonding over a threat to Alicia, because totally). I particularly loved You have a tell, Blake’s voice purrs in her ear. Kalinda stops laughing. because it's so true, and so awesome, and so telling (see what I did there?).
Also, Will twirling Kalinda is my new headcanon, and I'm firmly convinced the show just didn't show it to us (because A/K/W is OT3, shhhhhh). I mean, “You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over. “You should call her,” Kalinda fires back. It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements. “No.” Will looks very serious. “It should be you.” EVEN WILL SHIPS THEM. I also like Kalinda's lingering not-quite resentment; that feels very real and very right to me. So basically, I love the whole thing! Gah, I love your Good Wife fic and I'm just so tickled that you picked my prompt to write for. And at the title--The National ftw! :)
The National wins everythingthreeguessesMarch 9 2012, 23:45:56 UTC
Heh, yeah, that part of the blackmailing bothered me too after I puzzled it out. Basically this is just the written-down version of what I fanwanked in my head.
Re: The National wins everythingmightbefoundMarch 10 2012, 01:42:14 UTC
(A/K/W is kiiiiind of becoming my OT3 too...)
I think you should totally write it. The previous threesome fic you wrote for them was hot, hot, hot. And I think the dynamic you wrote for them then has only been reinforced by recent developments on the show.
Re: Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]randomizerMarch 2 2012, 03:53:40 UTC
This is really terrific-so psychologically revealing, so spot-on. And it has the added benefit of smoothing over some of the what-happened-when plot waverings in "Another Ham Sandwich." I particularly loved this:
It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
Thank you! I hate all the what-happened-when shenanigans (Kings! plot out your damn timelines!) but I also love them because they allow for some much leeway in fic.
Re: Live Alone, Eat Your Cake [2 of 2]sweetjamieleeMarch 4 2012, 04:33:44 UTC
God, you're so good at this. You always make me fall in love with these characters all over again with your pretty, pretty words.
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THANK YOU for clarifying the utter obviousness of K's Epic Love in that moment Dana made her threat --how she just couldn't be cool or glib anymore, because Blake was so, so right about this one thing and you know she hates it but SHE JUST CAN'T HELP IT, RACHEL, SHE PANICS AT THE MERE MENTION OF ALICIA'S NAME. I love that distinction you make between what she knows intellectually and her gut reaction. She's a too-smart cookie with a stratosphere-wide weak spot.
And everything with Will -- how much she likes him, how important he is but yet not the MOST important, and how he just knows that and accepts it because he understands. He understands that everything's about Alicia, and that's what he and Kalinda share in common -- the keystone in their bond, and why their bond is growing. You demonstrate just beautifully in so few words, this thing they do where they pass Alicia back and forth like a gift to each other. It would be even more super-weird if it weren't also kind of sweet. OT3 OT3.
And obviously, drunken Will making Kalinda dance with him needs to be canon as soon as possible.
“I fucked up,” she tells him. He blinks at the swear and not the sentiment, which is exactly what Kalinda intended. “But we can use it.”
(She would have told him earlier, honestly, except for how disgustingly revealing it all is. She’s tipped her hand, hugely, and now she just wants it all swept under the rug.)
Still: “It was Alicia,” she says. Will nods like that’s explanation enough.
*
Afterwards, they raid his private stash rather than drink the sickly-sweet champagne the paralegals are serving up in plastic cups. His office feels more like a fishbowl than usual, dark inside with the lights and noise of the party all around. Kalinda’s heels sink into the carpet.
“You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over.
“You should call her,” Kalinda fires back. It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
“No.” Will looks very serious. “It should be you.”
Later, he makes her dance with him. Kalinda lets him twirl her, just once, because he’s a little drunk and it’s his night. No one’s watching anyway. “That’s my girl,” he says when she haltingly stutters back around.
This time, Kalinda believes him.
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Seriously, I love that you took something that bothered me about Dana blackmailing Kalinda--the fact that the threat seemed so tenuous, when you stop and think about it--and turned it into the It of the story. And that you played so with Kalinda and the file--I appreciate that the writers left Kalinda's plan/motivation there up for interpretation, because I love your interpretation (and Will and Kalinda bonding over a threat to Alicia, because totally). I particularly loved
You have a tell, Blake’s voice purrs in her ear.
Kalinda stops laughing.
because it's so true, and so awesome, and so telling (see what I did there?).
Also, Will twirling Kalinda is my new headcanon, and I'm firmly convinced the show just didn't show it to us (because A/K/W is OT3, shhhhhh). I mean,
“You should call her,” Will says, apropos of nothing. “Let her know it’s all over.” The glass is warm from his palm when he passes it over.
“You should call her,” Kalinda fires back. It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
“No.” Will looks very serious. “It should be you.”
EVEN WILL SHIPS THEM. I also like Kalinda's lingering not-quite resentment; that feels very real and very right to me. So basically, I love the whole thing! Gah, I love your Good Wife fic and I'm just so tickled that you picked my prompt to write for. And at the title--The National ftw! :)
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(A/K/W is kiiiiind of becoming my OT3 too...)
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I think you should totally write it. The previous threesome fic you wrote for them was hot, hot, hot. And I think the dynamic you wrote for them then has only been reinforced by recent developments on the show.
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It’s as close as they’ve ever had to a conversation about it, Alicia in her castle and both of them outside the battlements.
Perfect!
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POINTS:
THANK YOU for clarifying the utter obviousness of K's Epic Love in that moment Dana made her threat --how she just couldn't be cool or glib anymore, because Blake was so, so right about this one thing and you know she hates it but SHE JUST CAN'T HELP IT, RACHEL, SHE PANICS AT THE MERE MENTION OF ALICIA'S NAME. I love that distinction you make between what she knows intellectually and her gut reaction. She's a too-smart cookie with a stratosphere-wide weak spot.
And everything with Will -- how much she likes him, how important he is but yet not the MOST important, and how he just knows that and accepts it because he understands. He understands that everything's about Alicia, and that's what he and Kalinda share in common -- the keystone in their bond, and why their bond is growing. You demonstrate just beautifully in so few words, this thing they do where they pass Alicia back and forth like a gift to each other. It would be even more super-weird if it weren't also kind of sweet. OT3 OT3.
And obviously, drunken Will making Kalinda dance with him needs to be canon as soon as possible.
You still got it, babe. Never stop.
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♥♥♥♥♥
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