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THE OUTLAND
Genre: AU
Rating: NC-17 (for entire story)
Feedback: Any and all is welcome
Disclaimer: These are Annie Proulx's brilliant original characters and her story, and I have treated it and them (and her) with as much respect as I can muster.
This story is for Canstandit, and this chapter maybe should be subtitled "Ranch Life".
THE OUTLAND, CHAPTER ( Read more... )
Genre: AU
Rating: NC-17 (for entire story)
Feedback: Any and all is welcome
Disclaimer: These are Annie Proulx's brilliant original characters and her story, and I have treated it and them (and her) with as much respect as I can muster.
This story is for Canstandit, and this chapter maybe should be subtitled "Ranch Life".
THE OUTLAND, CHAPTER ( Read more... )
I adore the many visions of deep love written here. I’m melting, my heart is swollen. How precious is that Jack loves hearing Ennis sleeping, or that he’s proud of that delicious lovebite!!! I love that Jack is so proud of Ennis and he wants get up earlier only to go and see Ennis working.
They both snored sometimes - Jack loved to lie awake and listen to his dear one snuffling away beside him - and he worried about the old man creeping around loose at night. On the other hand, when they had returned home it had given Jack great pleasure to see his father looking puzzled, and maybe even a bit relieved, when he spotted a lovebite the size of Texas peeping out from Jack's shirt collar. Suck on that, you bastard, Jack had thought.
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Usually Jack got up and went with him, just for the pleasure of watching him work. It moved him to see the way his man could be gentle and hard, tender and strong in turn.
I felt some kind of peace reading about that life they share. Yeah, hard, but decent, beautiful, quiet and full of joy. They love it too, they are so happy that they couldn’t help smiling.
BBM part was really haunting and heartbreaking. I cried reading that touching memory of that old cold time on the mountain..Jesus…. It sends a shiver down my spine with its beauty.
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Jack rode easy, revelling in his returning strength, rocking in the saddle, slipping back into old dreams, old memories. If he held his hand just so, he found he could block out his father's figure way up ahead and imagine that the cattle were a thousand ewes and their lambs, that the collies were blue heelers, that Ennis was in charge of pack mules, that the whole procession was flowing like a stream out above the treeline and across great flowery meadows, that the world was in the morning of its life, crystal pure and waiting to embrace them. Lost in his dream, he barely noticed that Ennis was falling back.
"What you doin there, bud?"
Jack sighed. "Just thinkin."
"Bout what?"
"Brokeback."
This Ennis is something else. How sweet, how special and marvelous. I love him so much. I think about him a lot. This is my Ennis. I think these two parts where he shows his love for Jack are so gorgeous. He cares a lot, you see that when he protects Jack from hard work and his father’s bad thoughts. And I adore when he wanted to say Jack's name to his girls, when he really needed that….but, well, there is fear still. I understand that.
This is one of my favorites lines!!! Bravo Jack!!!
Well, I got news for you, you old prick, I ain't never been this happy my entire life, not even the glorious day you dropped dead.
And well, these are the sweetest parts for me, where I came undone totally. Jack thinking he got finally that sweet life, and Ennis saying my favorite endearing work I use a lot: baby….. **sigh**
It was all coming good, it really was. It was some sweet life.
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"How's that, baby?" Ennis murmured, bending down to Jack's ear.
"Mmmmmm---what? What did you say?" Jack whispered back.
"I asked how you felt."
"You called me baby."
"No, I didn't."
"Swear to god, you did."
"Well, so what if I did," Ennis blushed.
"You just keep goin, darlin, won't hear no complaint from me."
All of that was perfect and pure bliss, except the ending…..I’m scared here. What Alma is gonna do? Oh no, no, no. They have suffering a lot to get all what they have now……I don’t want them to loose that joy. What if she tells the girls about Jack? Ennis couldn’t stand that….And what if she tells something to bad people? Oh, please, nooooooo.
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