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Title: Coronation Day
Author: DorsetGirl
Rating: White Cortina
Word Count: 1,500 words approx
Fandom: Ashes to Ashes
Spoilers for Ashes to Ashes episode 3.08
Warning: It’s impossible to give a warning without 3.08 spoilers, so please check out the title. If you don’t understand from the title exactly what I’m warning for, it’s best you don’t read
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you drunken lummox
This is possibly my favourite use of lummox ever. It's close, anyway.
This is truly great, even though/especially because it's heartbreaking. Thank you so much for sharing.
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This was lovely, and fits perfectly into what we know from canon. Our!Gene was always very conscious about keeping the streets safe for his mum, and you've captured perfectly that still-a-boy-almost-a-man aspect of 19-year-old Gene, who's a bit of a mummy's boy, but is so good-natured about it. His mum kind of breaks my heart, the way she goes through the years believing he's still out there (because he IS), and the way she gives Morrison what-for
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I kept making myself cry with this one, which very seldom happens! I originally had his mum more grief-stricken than this, but then somehow she became totally certain he was still out there. The sad thing is, I suppose, that she probably went quite doolally with the pain of it all - after all, no-one in possession of all their marbles would really continue to believe for thirty years that he was still working but just couldn't phone her. Despite the fact that it's true.
This was just one of those things that I had to write in order to be able to move on and assimilate the finale properly, so I'm glad it worked for some people. Thanks for reading and commenting!
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And it just gutted me (but in a good way) that Mrs Hunt passes away in summer 1983. Or rather, 'goes quietly to her grave'. One exquisitely crafted phrase out of so many in this understated, unbelievably poignant tale.
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Yeah, she goes to her grave in 1983; I couldn't make up my mind whether it was more heartbreaking if she finds out near the end what happened to him, or if she dies not knowing, so I tried to leave it ambiguous. But it seemed fitting that she should die around the time Gene himself discovered what had happened.
Thank you for reading, and for leaving such a lovely comment; I really appreciate it.
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At Farringfield Green, in a field on a hill the crows never settle.
They circle and call.
I found these lines incredibly haunting. Beautiful story.
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Yes, definitely. Gene may be a rogue in many ways, but his whole life - if we can still call it that - has been dedicated to keeping the streets safe. He is at heart a very good man.
I found these lines incredibly haunting.
I'd decided I'd quite like to write his mother's point of view of that day, and then I woke up on Monday with those lines going round in my mind, which sort of set the mood. I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for commenting!
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And Elf? DOOOOOO EEEEEEET!!
Seriously, you always do a wonderful job with Ray's back story and this would be a total heartbreaker. (Bonus points for getting in there his total hero-worship of The Guv - a substitute father figure? Who actually doesn't, most of the time, think he's a total waste of space, unlike his own father?)
Thanks for reading and commenting!
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