Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep by Bronwyn

[bronwynferchdai]

Title:  Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Pairings: Donald/Timmy

Rating: R

Spoilers: Do spoilers for my own stories count?  Because there are enormous ones for Modus Operandi.

Summary:  A seriously dark and ugly AU from a previous story of mine.

Disclaimer:  Not mine, not mine, not mine.  After what I’ve done, I don’t think I deserve them anyway.

Warning:  I

Comments

[jenna_hilary]

Okay. So I'm going through a kind of emotional patch of my own right now, and I know I could not tolerate reading your story. But I also couldn't resist reading it. So I read it backward. Section by Section backward, but only up to where there's the sequence where Don finds Tim in the attic.

Yeah, I know that's nuts, but I believe in self-preservation.

I still feel as if I know what this story is about (I've read the comments) and I see how you structured it, what you've done with it. And it is brilliant. From one writer to another, Bronwyn. This is brilliant. Heart-rending, yes, but true to that heart. Grief of this sort is so difficult to expose in words. I absolutely agree with what you had Donald do. It's the only way out for him, and totally consistent with his character as I understand it.

You know, I come from K/S fandom. Kirk and Spock had many years together until Spock dies in "The Wrath of Khan." I've read many grief stories as Kirk learns to cope with his loss, and a few of them are as good as this one. A few.

Please, give me some fluff so I can recover! See, even reading backward and only part way, you totally got to me. Sigh. I shouldn't have, but I had to.... Story of my life.
Love,
Jenna

[bronwynferchdai]

I'm up and awake now, so the fluff posting will commence presently. I knew this was going to be unexpectedly dark for this fandom - hence the rather emphatic author's note.

Grief on this kind of scale is huge and all-consuming. I just can't imagine Donald coping well with it a second time. He only managed the first time through the grace of God and the advent of Timmy.

Thanks for reading what you could and fluff ahoy!
Bronwyn