Rip Current | masterpost
Title: RIP CURRENT
By: tea_diva
Genre: Slash | Alternate-Universe | Hurt/Comfort | Romance | Angst
Pairing: Nate/Brad | Rating: R
Status: Complete | Word Count: 30,269
Warnings: Everything I know about surfing I learned from watching (mostly crappy) surfing movies. Everything I know about O'ahu I learned from Google (images). Suspend all disbelief. This fic features a Nate who went to war with a very different Bravo 2, and deals with his coming to terms with life after the Marines.
A/N: Written for yagkyas 2012. luxover mentioned pro-surfer!Brad in her secret Santa letter. This is where that idea took me. The title and quote came from this.
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction based on the fictionalized characters from the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. I do not own the characters or the series, or the book that inspired it; nor am I profiting from this in any way. I intend no disrespect to the real men on whom the book was based, nor do I make any assumptions about them. The book that Nate writes in this story is, I imagine, not at all like One Bullet Away.
Summary: After leaving the Marine Corp, Nate suspects that he's already lived the best and most significant part of his life. A vacation in Oahu might change his thoughts on this.
There’s no current that pulls you under in the beach. Rip currents pull you out. It’ll dig up the sand so it’ll cause a trench or a trough to be there. Even after the rip current is gone that drop off can still be pretty pronounced, so people will step off into it, not ready, next you know they’re getting carried off shore. What happens is people get scared or tired from trying to fight that current and think they’re not going to make it back in. And that’s when they have problems.
~ On Rip Currents, Peter Davis
(Galveston Island Beach Patrol Chief)
ONE ~ TWO ~ THREE
~ AO3 ~
Special thanks to...
amoama for her awesome cheer-leading and betaing: as always, you rock. 1more_sickpuppy, who met my early fears regarding Nate's development over the course of this story by saying, "Oh, well that one's easy! He is moving onto Brad. And he's not wearing any pants." So much love. Also thanks must be given to the makers of Twinings Earl Grey, who I single-handedly kept employed and grossly prosperous whilst endeavoring to complete this story.
By: tea_diva
Genre: Slash | Alternate-Universe | Hurt/Comfort | Romance | Angst
Pairing: Nate/Brad | Rating: R
Status: Complete | Word Count: 30,269
Warnings: Everything I know about surfing I learned from watching (mostly crappy) surfing movies. Everything I know about O'ahu I learned from Google (images). Suspend all disbelief. This fic features a Nate who went to war with a very different Bravo 2, and deals with his coming to terms with life after the Marines.
A/N: Written for yagkyas 2012. luxover mentioned pro-surfer!Brad in her secret Santa letter. This is where that idea took me. The title and quote came from this.
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction based on the fictionalized characters from the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. I do not own the characters or the series, or the book that inspired it; nor am I profiting from this in any way. I intend no disrespect to the real men on whom the book was based, nor do I make any assumptions about them. The book that Nate writes in this story is, I imagine, not at all like One Bullet Away.
Summary: After leaving the Marine Corp, Nate suspects that he's already lived the best and most significant part of his life. A vacation in Oahu might change his thoughts on this.
There’s no current that pulls you under in the beach. Rip currents pull you out. It’ll dig up the sand so it’ll cause a trench or a trough to be there. Even after the rip current is gone that drop off can still be pretty pronounced, so people will step off into it, not ready, next you know they’re getting carried off shore. What happens is people get scared or tired from trying to fight that current and think they’re not going to make it back in. And that’s when they have problems.
~ On Rip Currents, Peter Davis
(Galveston Island Beach Patrol Chief)
ONE ~ TWO ~ THREE
~ AO3 ~
Special thanks to...
amoama for her awesome cheer-leading and betaing: as always, you rock. 1more_sickpuppy, who met my early fears regarding Nate's development over the course of this story by saying, "Oh, well that one's easy! He is moving onto Brad. And he's not wearing any pants." So much love. Also thanks must be given to the makers of Twinings Earl Grey, who I single-handedly kept employed and grossly prosperous whilst endeavoring to complete this story.