Being Human: Ausencia [Hal/Eve, sequel to Lonely Rivers] 3/3

[istne_pieklo]

Title: “Ausencia”
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: NC-17
Timeline: AU!future as shown in episodes 4.01, 4.07, 4.08.
Summary: To save humanity the War Child must die. Eve found a loophole but humanity isn’t as grateful as it should be. Sequel to Lonely Rivers. [Hal/Eve, side Hal/Cutler]
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC. Title

Comments

[non_canonical]

Is it wrong of me to say that I was hoping for an unhappy ending to this story? You built up such a beautifully depressing atmosphere, and such a sense of tragedy. (And for once the humans got a chance to kick arse.) I really couldn't have coped with an unfeasibly happy ending. So don't take it the wrong way when I say that you ripped my heart out there! T_T In a good way! <3 Well done for seeing the storyline through to the bitter end.

I'm glad Regus got a fighting chance of escape there. And Fergus went out in a way he'd have been happy with. :)

But Cutler - my god, I think you killed me with the way he faced it all at the end there. Not exactly quiet dignity, because that wouldn't have been his style, but his own version of it, at least. <3

[istne_pieklo]

Thank you, darling! I was really hoping to rip someone's heart out actually. XDDD The ending was always going to be very peaceful but very tragic. I actually changed it several times (f.ex. one of the versions had Hal and Cutler leaving together after the resistance had taken the palace; it would have been established that Eve's blood was the cure for the plague - I dropped the idea eventually b/c he'd drunk her blood so many times that he couldn't have fallen ill at all if it had any healing properties - but Eve would part ways with him, so when Hal would start coughing up blood, she wouldn't be available) but the very last sentence, in which he quietly discovers he is sick was always going to be there. I just like this idea that both Hal and Eve have seemingly finally made peace with everything including themselves and each other, and then - bang! Everybody dies. XD

[non_canonical]

but the very last sentence, in which he quietly discovers he is sick was always going to be there - The whole of the last scene was just lovely. But that paragraph was just perfect. It's a fine art, knowing when you've said just enough, when to finish, but that was spot on. <3

even Mr Snow might be sick - I think Mr Snow has been *sick* for a very long time! :p I was intrigued by the way you had the disease make people's veins change colour, like Mr Snow's. Maybe he is going to die like the rest of them, or maybe he knows something the others don't. I'm tempted to ask you to write another sequel, but I know you're not a fan of that, and I'm not, really, either. I don't think it's a bad thing to leave a few unanswered questions (Regus, Mr Snow, what happens to Eve), as long as the characters don't just disappear without some sort of acknowledgement or resolution.

I killed everyone, where do we go from here? - Maybe you could write some therapeutic smut. A nice AU where everyone is alive and well, and shagging like rabbits?

[istne_pieklo]

It's a fine art, knowing when you've said just enough, when to finish Oh yes. For me, endings are much harder than beginnings. XD
Yeah, I love unanswered questions. But only if that's the way the ending is planned to be, not if it's a tv-show canceled and not given a proper finale. XD But I love open endings.
LOL))) So the plague has a name))) Snow disease! XD
I actually have 2 ideas to develop for now: a more or less canon-based story featuring ghost!Eve and a cracky, light canon story about Hal and Alex. Don't know which one is going to get written first, but at least I still have ideas... Btw seems like the fic comm has completely died. They still haven't approved my post. :((
How's your fic going? XD

[shirogiku]

Brilliant writing <333

I'm glad you found the ending, after all. It felt right:) Cutler's last scene, shielding himself with music and alcohol, is really heartbreaking and beautiful, and so is the Hal & Eve & flower tea scene.

[istne_pieklo]

Thank you. :)
I knew the ending more or less (I did promise I'd kill a lot of people; even those who technically survive the fic will probably die offscreen), I just couldn't realize how to get there.