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OC Fic: Rendezvous in Santa Barbara

Feb 24, 2007 11:21

Title: Rendezvous in Santa Barbara

Three vignettes / three points of view / one story

Author: ChaseII

Story Rating: PG 13 (minor language)

Disclaimer: The OC Universe, with all its assorted characters, belongs to Josh Schwartz, et. al. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended, nor is any money being made.

A/N: I needed a tiny bit of the ' ( Read more... )

santa barbara

Comments 52

anne35 February 24 2007, 16:48:46 UTC

That was one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Thank you so much.

chaseii February 24 2007, 22:37:49 UTC

Thank you. I needed some Ryan/Cohen something...

zbyszko February 24 2007, 16:59:11 UTC

That made me more "sniffly" than the finale did- great job!

chaseii February 24 2007, 22:41:43 UTC

Thanks! The last few minutes of the finale were good (no comment on all the wasted moments before then), but it left me with an empty feeling where Ryan/Cohen goodness should have been.

yessi_5 February 24 2007, 17:01:11 UTC

You just killed me. That was too beautiful for words and I'm crying all over again.

Leaving the boy I used to be inside, where he will learn and grow and get hurt and make mistakes and be loved anyway.

*sobs hysterically*

I'll try to leave a more coherent comment once I can actually see my computer screen again. I need to go find tissues now.

chaseii February 24 2007, 22:59:40 UTC

So many thanks.

Lack of Ryan&Sandy and/or Ryan&Kirsten time at the conclusion of the finale left me feeling dissatisfied and empty, with this overwhelming sense of disconnectedness, loneliness, and isolation for Ryan, rather than the confirmation of love and warmth and promise I wanted him to have.

katwoman76 February 24 2007, 17:07:20 UTC

This is to beautiful for words.
I don't even know where to start with all the wonderful lines I loved in this story, since I could just as well quote the whole thing.
You made me cry all over again.
Thank you. This was great.

chaseii February 24 2007, 23:13:49 UTC

I'm glad you liked this -- I'm glad anyone liked it. The truth is I needed to write it -- I hope our other flisters write others that do what I attempt to do here. Which is to give Ryan the warm, loving, included, connected feeling I didn't get from the finale. It's one thing to show us his success -- it's something else entirely to show us that he knows he's loved, with a deep, warm, abiding sense of connection to the Cohens.

chazper February 24 2007, 21:05:00 UTC

Thank you for this. It's everything I wanted from the finale. And everything in it is true, because we know these feelings were there, in what Josh didn't allow the characters to say.

I started crying almost immediately when I read this, but I literally had to stop for a moment when you had Ryan leave his boots behind in that empty house.

Our broken, abandoned boy will always live there.

chaseii February 24 2007, 23:33:11 UTC

Thank you.

I have to think the feelings were there, even though in the finale Josh gave us aborted weddings and Bullits and freaking Frank, and neglected in large part the heart and soul of what drew me to these characters and to this show. I wanted confirmation that Ryan's loved... a feeling of connection with the Cohens that's deep and wide and undeniable... and instead I had this utter sense of loneliness and isolation.

About the boots? It felt right -- like they belonged with the boy from Chino. That they were the last vestige of his 'uniform'... the choker, the wristcuff, and the boots that set him apart in the beginning, defining him as 'not-Newport'. Like the long-abandoned choker, and the worn, discarded wrist-cuff, our Berkeley-bound, Cohen-loved Ryan doesn't need them anymore.

Our broken, abandoned boy will always live there. And I'll visit him at lonely Casa Cohen... I'll always love this kid...

chazper February 25 2007, 00:38:56 UTC

instead I had this utter sense of loneliness and isolation.I know what you mean. There was this deep, abiding sadness. I wasn't sure at first if it was mine or Ryan's, but I decided it belonged to us both ( ... )

chaseii February 25 2007, 19:14:07 UTC

There was this deep, abiding sadness. I wasn't sure at first if it was mine or Ryan's, but I decided it belonged to us both. Same here. I wanted a sense of deep, abiding love, and in its place I got distance and disconnection, and the bitter knowledge there were no second chances. Wish I could love the end like so many do, but all I feel is the sadness you describe.

couldn't he have had Ryan ride to Berkeley with the Cohens? I thought the same thing...

And you're right about the logic holes. Given all the other holes that bled all year, that one would have been easy to fill. Seth&Ryan could have driven Ryan's car up on a prior weekend, and ridden back with their parents (or to go more the OC over-the-top route, maybe Ryan/Seth & Sandy/Kirsten drove the two extra cars to Berkeley earlier and flew back all together -- in Bullit's jet?) After all, wouldn't they have needed to do things like pick out bedrooms and wall colors and the like? ;)

He could have done his solo walk through and emerged from the empty house to his ( ... )