Someone Like You 11/50: Vertigo - Beecher/Stabler

[drsquidlove]

Someone Like You
by Dr Squidlove
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Oz/Law & Order: SVU crossover

Tobias Beecher's trying to rebuild his family in the shadow of the man he was in prison. Elliot Stabler's struggling to continue in the wake of divorce while his job eats away at his soul. It makes for an odd friendship, but it works.

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wow!!

[anonymous]

I was thinking about this chapter when I was at work today, so thank you for making my day pass pleasantly! I love Eliot making that leap of faith, going with his emotions. But ah Toby and his obsession with a dead man, cue rather a lot of lovely angst I assume? I do hope so.Interesting to see if Toby can actually learn to love Eliot for who he is. How will he tell Eliot about Chris and how will the fact Eliot has a fucked up, dead twin pan out? I love, love, love the domestic AU Oz fic and have read pretty much all of it and this is really up there now with some of my favourite work.

Sooo much looking forward to the next chapter (no pressure) :)

Nothing in Particular x

Re: wow!!

[drsquidlove]

Thank you!

Sometimes Elliot just has to plunge in. I'm not sure I ever could have got him there if he'd kept thinking about it.

Angst? Oh, yeah, might be able to find a little of that somewhere in here. They're both very good at creating it.

Thank you so much! I love domestic fics, too. I re-read Oz ones frequently. I can just wallow in all the meandering real life details all day. (And kind of did, writing this.)

S.

[iskra667]

THEY KISSED! Way earlier than I expected, but in a way it makes sense because Elliot has been acting on instinct all the way, since he can't rationalize anything.

I'm really looking forward to the next part, when Elliott comes down from his Toby-high and starts thinking more about his self-image, and the contact and closeness makes it even harder to differentiate Elliot and Chris. You've set them up to get really, really confused, I bet ;)

[drsquidlove]

They did!

I guess the story's all over, and everyone can go home, now.

I think Elliot's more for the post-hoc rationalisations. Hit first, rage later...

Taking Elliot's clothes off is unlikely to help Toby differentiate him from Chris. Generally speaking, though, my plan is for them both to be confused at least 98% of the time.

Thank you, iskra!

S.

Finally!

[anonymous]

Finally!

Re: Finally!

[drsquidlove]

:-)

S.

[vanillalime]

Oh...Oh! OH! *bounces* What a wonderful kiss!

And, oh my goodness, that PICTURE! *claps hands* Beautiful! Yay for Barbana!

I have to warn you though, if you break my heart at the end of this story, I'm going to come back here and just pretend this is where it ends. Which is fitting, perhaps, since I often do that with the show itself, sometimes having it end at the New Year's Eve lockdown, other times at the "You got mail" kiss, because, in my world, it's rare that Season 6 actually happened.

(**Obviously, I've gotten way behind in reading this story, and even further behind in commenting. Recent Real Life has only allowed me enough time to either read or write lately, and I had an urge to write. But I'm getting back into it now, so don't be alarmed by a trickle of comments on old entries.**)

[drsquidlove]

Thank you!

Yes yes, barbana is talented in all sorts of artistic directions, but it's her simple pencil sketches I love best. So pretty.

Ah, but what if I have plans to break your heart and repair it a number of times throughout the story? I might give you all sorts of ideal stopping places. And you can't end here: they haven't had any sex yet. You gotta let them have sex.

I totally get you. This whole last year and a half I've read very little, because Elliot and Toby have been squandering all my time. Also, I very rarely find comments on my fic alarming. I hugsqueeze all comments!

Thanks vanillalime!

S.