Faces part 9 of 9 and Epilogue

[tamoline]

Title: Faces (part 9 of 9 and Epilogue)
Author: Tamoline and Louisa
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: X-Men/Criminal Minds
Pairing: Emma Frost/Emily Prentiss

Disclaimer: Not my characters. Not my pairing.

Notes: Finally, the last part of Faces, the first decent length fanfic and femslash story we have ever worked on.  I hope that you have enjoyed it. Any feedback,

Comments

[mauders]

I've just got back from Milan and caught up on your brilliant fanfic!!

I loved the tone you set with this relationship and as I've said before I loved the fact it was from Emma's POV. I think it's hard to get Emma's voice at times as she's just not all about being a bitch and not all writers get her.

I would love to see a companion piece in Emily's POV as obviously we did not get to know her as well or her motivations.

Overall it was a very satisfying read that focused on character, relationships and nuance rather than events and action (which obviously were a part of it) which made it that more interesting for me. I was a little surprised at the ending, the way Emma left (as I'm sure was Emily), and it would have been interesting to see Emma go back, but that's a whole different story I'm sure! And who does Emma actually want to be? Emma Frost or Emma Winthrop? I guess that's something for the future.

(Oh, one tiny tiny criticism. The use of *___* to emphasise words slightly irked me. sorry!)

I'm looking forward to reading more of this pair (or anything actually) from you. Bravo on completing it, and write more soon. Like very soon...!

[tamoline]

Thank you both for your comments, and we're glad that you enjoyed it.

Whilst the ending might not have been obvious, I hope that it wasn't too surprising, at least in hindsight. We did try and put several references to Emma not wanting to or not being able to think about her relationships, and she never said that she was single. Whilst I definitely wanted to make it a twist, I did want to make it feel like one that arose naturally from the story rather than added in last minute for extra drama.

The asterisk thing is a textual tick that I have to indicate cadence and emphasis, and one that my co-author has grudgingly gone along with. (And, yes, I did actually use it in this reply before editing it out again.) She has suggested that we could avail ourselves of the new-fangled 'bold' tags. Pshaw, I say! But I guess we'll see what happens in the future.

Sadly, it'll probably be a few weeks before we post another story. I'm something of an obsessive when it comes to writing, and I wrote draft 1.0 before I'd post anything, just so I could make sure that we used some phrases and themes throughout.

The only thing I could put up before then is more Keri diaries which, to be honest, are far less polished, given that they are storified writeups of RPG sessions I participated in, and are only very loosely fanfic. (Alternate universe, more or less original characters in the Chronicles of Amber multiverse.) Still, some people seem to have enjoyed reading them in other places and if anyone would like me to post more, please comment in one of them.

In case you are interested, this story is in part my reaction to Control below, where a lot of Emma's problems originated from the fact that she was a) deeply traumatised and b) unable to even consider getting help with that fact. Much of the rest of it came from my musings about how the relationship with Scott could have ended (so I could get Emma together with Emily). This (hopefully) elegant solution suggested itself as an answer to this riddle.

[nonpresence]

There is some irony in the fact that surrounding a word with asterisks is an old school bold tag... One that LJ is apparently too new-fangled to employ. ^_^