Christmas stories - update

[wren_kt7oz]

I'm still working on the third. It took ages to reach any sort of form in my brain and when it did I wound up with three pages of notes! I'm working on it, and hope to have it up by New Year

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[wren_kt7oz]

I could see Mel doing them too. ITA that she was totally a bitch in S5. As for Brian ... I think if there was one good thing that came out of the cancer arc (which I hated with a deep and abiding passion), it was that Brian learned that it's alright for him to want to be happy. He doesn't have to lose his edge, he can still be himself, and yet find happiness. That's what I would have liked C/L to explore ... and of course, they ... well, let's not go there.

But that's the premise behind most of my stories. I don't want to turn Brian into someone else. I just want him to be the Brian that we got glimpses of in S3 and S4, the one who's in love, and is okay with that; the one who's a father, and wants to be a good one. The one who's still snarky and probably promiscuous, but who isn't afraid to be openly happy in being with someone. The one who's finally ready to start letting go of his past, and actually look forward to the future. That Brian.

Living in the Now is fine, very Zen. But not when you're trapped there because you're fleeing your past and are terrified of the future. I want to explore a Brian who's finally moving out of that trapped state.

The thing that I hated most about S5, was that, after offering a glimmer of hope that he was ready to move on, C/L pushed him right back there - from the competition story line onwards. Hated it. Simply hated it. They had the chance to do so much more with that character, and just threw it away. What a waste!

Ah, well, rant over. Off to the cricket now.

Have a good one!

W