Comments | amatara: Twin Peaks fic: Five Times Albert Rosenfield Lied [Albert & various others, gen]

amatara

Twin Peaks fic: Five Times Albert Rosenfield Lied [Albert & various others, gen]

Aug 29, 2010 22:08

Summary: Five moments in Albert Rosenfield’s FBI career where he didn’t tell the brutal truth, and one where he did without even knowing.
Characters: Albert Rosenfield, along with snatches of Dale Cooper, Harry Truman, Annie Blackburn, Windom Earle - and Diane.
Word Count: ~ 5000
Rating: Gen, PG-13 for language and some serious angst. (and I do ( Read more... )

twin peaks, fanfic, albert rosenfield

Comments 26

jean_c_pepper August 29 2010, 21:41:16 UTC

THAT was angsty! Good, but angsty!

amatara August 29 2010, 21:45:27 UTC

Well, I did mention there was angst... :) Hope it wasn't too much, though, and that you were still able to enjoy the story in spite of the sad ending! I do have a thing for, as Albert would call it, "three-hankie endings" myself, I have to admit. *g*

And thank you for commenting!

jean_c_pepper August 30 2010, 21:29:12 UTC

Oh, no. I loved it. It actually made me get out the Twin Peaks disks today!
(If I am going to continue commenting, I'm going to need an icon!)

amycooper August 29 2010, 22:02:24 UTC

I need a tissue.

amatara August 29 2010, 22:08:34 UTC

*hands you box of tissues*
There, there. *pats you* I'm sorry! Hope this made you the good kind of sad, not the bad kind...

That icon is so beautiful. *hugs your serious-looking Coop*

amycooper August 30 2010, 00:44:26 UTC

Oh I loved it. Coop was right to. He wasn't in a bad place, but poor Albert!

Serious!Coop is serious. And hot. :D

amatara August 30 2010, 07:01:20 UTC

Very hot! As is serious Albert. :)

And yes, writing it broke my heart for Albert. For Coop, with all the Black Lodge / White Lodge stuff, I can still imagine things aren't ending for him and he's going to a better place (like Laura?) now he's free of BOB. For Albert, though, it is a pretty definitive ending, isn't it? But then life goes on for him as well, so I have hope that he, too, will be okay eventually.

heartequals August 30 2010, 00:52:48 UTC

Coop may be fine but I sure am not.

Lovely and heartbreaking in all the best ways!

amatara August 30 2010, 07:06:31 UTC

Thank you! Writing that last scene pretty much destroyed me, too (I was all like - Oh God, I just killed Coop! - while my husband was watching a soccer match from the sofa, LOL. I was in a weird mood the whole following day), so I sympathize entirely. *hugs you* And I'm very glad you enjoyed this anyway.

nemo_everbeing August 30 2010, 01:39:50 UTC

Damn, that hurt. You know that you're going to have to write happy fluffy shippy stuff now, right? I've got a lump in my throat the size of Toledo here. Great job as always.

amatara August 30 2010, 07:30:57 UTC

It probably sounds weird as hell to be thanking you for telling me I managed to make you all weepy - but thank you! :) And I'm sure happy fluffy fic will follow! This isn't the first time I've written canon character death, but it is the first time in this fandom, and it was very strange and pretty hard to get through writing that last bit.

And, well, I figured since I've written the story with the happy ending where everything turns out fine, it was only fair that I write the opposite as well. I do have a thing for tragic deaths, and for the classic irony that death, in some cases, really can be a kinder fate than life. And the reason I made it a accident is that I don't think either Cooper or Albert would have willingly chosen that fate for Cooper. And I'm kind of amazed no one else seems to have written aTP fic in which Cooper got killed at the end. It seems - one of the more obvious possible fates for him, I'd say, and setting his soul free I definitely see as a good thing, even if it's hell on the people who stay behind ( ... )

nemo_everbeing August 31 2010, 02:13:23 UTC

Io'll definitely give you a more detailed comment. I know that last one was short, but right now the only internet access I have is my cell phone and will be for the next couple of days. And my thumbs suck at this sort of typing on a tiny keyboard. So never fear. More will come just as soon as I can use a real computer to do it.

For now please know that I don’t usually do character death stories. I've only ever written one and I wouldn't have read it without your name in that author box. But it was good. Really shockingly good.

amatara August 31 2010, 21:34:05 UTC

Oh, I am a disaster in typing on cellphone keys, so I sympathize! And I wasn't complaining about the length of your comment, if that's how this sounded like. Really, these are the kinds of questions I should ask a beta reader, but I don't have a regular beta for TP fics, and anyway, a beta is only one voice. (Plus, all my betas so far have been incredibly gentle with me. :) ) I kind of take you for the kind of person who'd speak their mind when asked (which is a compliment!) - so, there. I asked ( ... )

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maspalio August 31 2010, 19:13:15 UTC

Are you trying to make me cry? Because I won't. *wibble*

That was quite lovely, though, even if a bit angsty. I skimmed over the character list at the beginning so there were a few pleasant surprises along the way. Like Windom Earle interviewing Albert: That's a great idea. And Diane! I am beginning to like Diane far too much considering she's a character no one has ever seen, and I blame it all on you. You make me think about her too much.

The last part was wonderful. Terribly sad, but works great as an end to Cooper's character arc. I was going to say it could be part of a multi-chapter epic because there's a sense of lots of things happening behind the scenes, here, but it wouldn't work quite so well if we knew what lead to this moment beforehand.

At the time, though, it felt like half a lifetime passed between the slam of the gun and Cooper’s body - Cooper’s body, but not Cooper - hitting the ground.Love that line. It could have been the first line of that part ( ... )

amatara August 31 2010, 21:12:59 UTC

Thank you! And - 'a bit angsty'? Seriously? *g* Looking back on it, it was almost too much even for me, and I'm an angst addict all the way (as long as it doesn't become gratuitous angst, that is; the angst still needs to fit into canon as a whole for me to really like it). For some strange reason I didn't feel all that sad while writing that last scene, but re-reading it afterwards... ouch. (It was so bad that today I wrote a whole new scene to tack onto the ending. I don't know, the way it was it felt so - final, in a way. Like yeah, sure, Cooper would be better off, but now Albert has lost the single important person in his life, and I didn't even try to take him past that...? I just couldn't leave it hanging there. Does that make sense?)

I was going to say it could be part of a multi-chapter epic because there's a sense of lots of things happening behind the scenes, here, but it wouldn't work quite so well if we knew what lead to this moment beforehand.To be honest, as I'm not much of the plotty type of person, just drawing a ( ... )