Remix Challenge, by Loz

[lozenger8]

Title: And Cure His Heart
Remix of: Venus in Furs by Fi of fiandyfic
Rating: Red Cortina - vague allusions to incest and non-con.
Word Count: 2300 words.
Notes: Allusions to Sam/Gene and unrequited Sam/Annie. Allusions to Ruth/Sam and Ruth/Vic/Sam.

Comments

[meli_64]

Oh man! This was so fantastic! Can you write more? I feel like there's more to this. I dunno, maybe it's just hopeful dreaming because that's how great this is. :D

[lozenger8]

I wholeheartedly recommend you read Fi and Andy's versions [Velvet Underground series] of the next part of the story - although they're highly disturbing (well, they are to me. I'm sensitive to this kind of thing.)

Thanks, Meli.

[liquorishflame]

I know I was being overly hopeful, but as I was reading, I was desperatley hoping that there would be a happy ending this time. Gene and Annie seemed so determined. Well, you've broken my heart once more. Alas poor Sam, rest in peace :( Thanks for a great re-mix :)

[lozenger8]

Would it make you feel better if I said I really wanted to write the happy ending? No, didn't think so.

Thank you :)

[liquorishflame]

Makes me feel a little better. :)

[saintvic]

Had a reread of Venus in Furs before reading this and what I appreciated the most here was how this added an extra dimension to the story. The same tale but from a completely different perspective - great way of writing this very difficult topic. The way you have shown Gene and Annie working so hard and never getting anywhere is chilling as well. Thank you for writing this.

[lozenger8]

I think this was a remix that relied heavily on having read Venus in Furs, so thank you for rereading.

Thanks so much. Remixes are meant to add other dimensions to stories, so I achieved what I wanted to in that regard (and not in others, but that's a grumble for another day.)

♥

[duckyone]

I love how you can surprise me. I would not have guessed that you would do a remix of this particular series and yet you found a way to fill in the blanks from a different perspective. You also maintain the the feeling of helplessness that the original series had but from Annie and Gene's viewpoint. I am glad you didn't give this a happy ending because I would think that would defeat the purpose of the challenge.

Thank you!

[lozenger8]

Thanks, Ducky.

I tried really hard to do 'And they all lived happily ever after' and I kept debating it with myself --- to do the impossible in regards to trying to remix a story within a story and have it be different, or to do the confrontational and remix a story that encompasses one of my hardcore squicks?

[jantalaimon]

I've tried to figure out what to say on this a couple of times. Reread, and reread, and still haven't come up with something to say.

I guess you could say it's rendered me speechless? XD

You've amplified the desperation of the originals by at least 1,000. Obviously from different angles, and it's nice (probably not the right word, in this fic, but you get the idea) to see that it's more than just the Tylers' desperation.

Poor Sammy thinks he's hit bottom, but he hasn't. Not yet.

[lozenger8]

This was a really difficult fic for me to write and I think that really shows through.

I usually reread my stuff a lot to edit and I haven't reread this more than once. (So there are probably problems galore!)

It was doubly hard because I had to try and show what was happening (keeping the pairings of the original) whilst writing from the perspective of characters who just don't know what's going on.

Thanks, Janni.