Spaghetti

[indyhat]

Characters: Claude, and the Bennet family; Claude/Bennet if you squint (you don't have to squint very hard)
Rating: PG-13 (one instance of strong language)
Word count: a little under 1,350
Summary: Dinner at the Bennets'.
A/N: Written for futuresoon in response to the prompt: "Kids are tricky." Yeah, I want me some domestic!pre-shooting!Bennets+Claude, ma'am

Comments

[veetvoojagig]

Awwwwwww. Claude and Claire are so adorable. *Grins* I like seeing Claude happy enough to fuck around like that.

[indyhat]

Glad you liked :)

You know, although Claude is clearly much happier in this (happier with himself, as much as anything), this has left me feeling positively melancholy. Huh.

[veetvoojagig]

Poor you. *hugs tight*

[indyhat]

Thank you. *sniffles*

[c_quinn]

dragging a bear behind her in a way that's straight out of Winnie the Pooh,

And the Pooh returns. ;)

Very sweet interaction between Claude and Claire.

Best part for me, though, was this: Bennet might be used to compartmentalising that stuff, but he's not. Not when this might as well be the only family he ever had.

Nice bit of insight into Claude.

[indyhat]

And the Pooh returns. ;)

Pooh just sorta' snuck in there ;) Glad you liked the Claude-Claire stuff.

Bennet might be used to compartmentalising that stuff, but he's not. Not when this might as well be the only family he ever had.

Nice bit of insight into Claude.

I seem to have a vulnerable!Claude kink going on this week lifetime.

[g_shadowslayer]

I love this -- a view into the happier days of the partnership. And little Claire is adorable!

[indyhat]

Thank you! Glad you liked :)

[cucumber_k]

That was all kinds of great. I'm a sucker for Claude-Claire interactions, I blame it on Jack Coleman.

Lovely fic.

[indyhat]

Thank you. Honestly, I'm quite dissatisfied with it, but if people can find something good in it, that'll do :)

I blame nearly everything on Jack Coleman. Mostly so I don't hold it against Christopher Ecclestone ;)

[cucumber_k]

Yeah, darn that Jack Coleman and his deleted scenes.

[indyhat]

There are deleted scenes? :D

(man, I'm sore. The DVD comes out in the States on my birthday, but no, we in the UK have to wait until December to buy it. Grrr.)

... or did you just mean those deleted scenes where it's revealed that Bennet is responsible for nearly everything, and only Pa Nakamura pulls the strings from above him? ;)

[futuresoon]

Love love love. It's sweet to think of there being a time when Claude would play tricks for kids--hell, it's sweet to think of there being a time when he would let kids be around him; the poor guy's life isn't exactly family-friendly any more. (If it ever really was. But, well, like this shows, he could pretend it was.)

The past forever awkward: a thing gladly left behind, and yet persistently sticky in memory like tyres on hot asphalt.

Mmmmmm. Bonus points for 'tyres', even though I know you would spell it like that anyway; the y just sort of goes well with the sentence. I'm weird like that.

I don't see why you don't like this--well, yes, I'm very familiar with the horrible niggling feeling writers get with their own work that nobody else ever picks up on, but really, this is just sweet and sad and perfect, like all the Bennets+Claude stories should be. I love it.

[indyhat]

Oh, I'm so relieved you like it!

Yes, it's nice to think that Claude used to have something approximating normal social interactions. Even if half of it was lies. I like to think that he could be himself around Claire.

*g* Yeah, "tyres" gave me pause for thought but I figured it was doubly justified since (a) I'm British and (b) so's Claude ;)

And "horrible niggling feeling" is exactly how I feel about it, but if you liked it, then that's the main thing, because this was for you! *phew*