Where I Stood - Chapter One: What I Wanted To Say [Skins; Naomi/Emily]

[thecon12]

Okay, so this is my first real attempt to grasp Skins by the horns and play around with a few of their characters, and I'm both excited and nervous so :) The title for the story is a Missy Higgins song, but each chapter will have a title based off a song by a different artist (I wasn't hardcore enough to write my way through an entire album) and

Comments

[muiriosa]

Excellent opener!

Whilst I really, really hope that once Skins returns, we'll see a super happy Emily/Naomi, I really do think that Naomi rushed into things....which makes your chapter an excellent take on how things might turn out. Of course, I still hope it'll end well, but I'm ok with the angst in the mean time :p

Look forward to the next chapter :)

[thecon12]

Thanks very much :) I'm so pleased you like it so far.

I'm with you on wishing that E/N will be happy on the show, but at the same time I also wish that if the show had more episodes that they'd have taken the time to explore their relationship a little bit slower and really shown us just how Naomi really feels about it all since it was mostly told from Emily's POV during S3.

Glad you're okay with angst, they'll be more of it along the way of this :)

Thanks for reading!

[puffy_wuffy]

8 parts!!!

Oh, I am so excited for the rest of this.

[thecon12]

Thank you :)

[keepix3]

I love that song (actually listened to it while reading) and I quite love this, kinda heartbreaking but really good.Looking forward next chapter :)

[thecon12]

Aww thanks so much :) That song really was the first basic inspiration for this fic, so I'm glad it could work whilst you read this :)

Thanks for reading!

[unconditional_w]

Alright. You've killed me. I'm dead. Well done. Kudos to you.

This start is just too heart...shaking. It hasn't quite broken anything yet but it's just threatening to. The whole chapt's just got this feeling of dread and horror and...Urgh. This, this chapter is pretty much the reason, in about 4000 or so words, as to why I am terrified of love.
Hence, try as I may, I cannot bring myself to hate Naomi in this, though I was mentally shaking her and giving her pep talks about love and trust and second chances.
I do think it's rather sad that it's so...they've broken apart so quickly, especially with Naomi. It seems a little bit AU that she's just so terrified and so quickly after all the progress she'd made in canonverse. But no matter, this is fandomr, right?

'she’s once again in charge of what happens to them, and Emily is the poor soul that has to silently suffer with whatever she decides.'
oh dear me.

[thecon12]

Aww thanks so much :) I'm glad you liked this so far, hopefully you'll enjoy what's left to come as well.

I hated to start this off with them falling apart but hopefully the later chapters will make sense, as there's a total of 7 years before they meet again.

I think Naomi for me, had never really 100% admitted her feelings for Emily to herself during S3, it always felt very impulsive and still her slightly misunderstanding the emotions she was feeling. The love-ball scene where she says it back felt more like a reflex to Emily saying it to her and just being so overwhelmed that she said the love word back (that's not to say I don't think she doesn't love Emily, I just think she doesn't know or understand that she really does yet) so in other words I'm glad you're not hating her in this :)

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I always appreciate hearing what you have to say <3

[unconditional_w]

Ah yes, no, I agree with what you've said there, I definitely get that feeling as well. (Un?)fortunately all this second thinking is getting me in a bummed mood and am currently working on an angst only fic now.
I'm looking forward to the updates for this one, I like reunion-fics, and everything you write, so obviously, this is a win-win situation.

[thecon12]

Aww sorry, didn't mean to bum you out because I adore happy Naomily! But I am secretly excited for the angsty fic you're working on :)

[thecon12]

Thanks so much for reading :) I feel bad that I seem to have bummed everyone out lol. If I promise I love happy E/N I hope everyone will feel slightly less heartbroken!

<3