Happy Holidays, aviss!

[ourphilosophy]

Title: The Garden in Winter
Written for: aviss
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Adam and Pepper (possible shades of Adam/Pepper)
Notes: It's so rare that I get the opportunity to write about these kids, and even rarer still when I get the chance to write about them all grown up (or, as the case may be, in the process of growing up). This, therefore,

Comments

[ida_pea]

Yes. I couldn't help thinking of it that way. It was good to see a snippet of them together in happier times.

[irisbleufic]

I'm not sure what way you couldn't help thinking of it, but: thank you, even if belatedly *hugs* And, as per usual these past few weeks, there's new CoT' Verse fic waiting for you <3

[ladymouse2]

This is such a tender return to the Them. Dog still around but even for him time has passed. Does a Hellhound ever die?

Getting to the field by their old childhood paths, but Pepper has grown from a tomboy with a lethal hook, enough to wear stylish hair and dangle earrings, and her passions are busy longing to be focused and harnessed to some Greater Good. Both anxious to embrace it but also properly afraid. And Adam who strolled out in shapelessly comfortable old clothes still trying to figure out what's important enough for him to be doing.

You've taken a standard plot of old playmates rediscovering each other with new eyes as adults and made it singular because of just who these youngsters are and what their potential is. I'm very pleased to think these two might do it together.

[irisbleufic]

I'm not sure if Hellhounds ever die, to be honest. I have the weird impression that he's going to be around for as long as Adam is around, and as for Adam's lifespan, well, that's a fascinating question in and of itself...

I wrote to be an inset for A Crown of Stars, to be honest; even though it can be read as completely unconnected, I needed some sense of weight and momentousness to keep the tone right where I wanted it. I do wonder what the authors think these kids end up doing with their lives!