Fic: The Senator in the Scarecrow (14/20)

[ladychi]

Title: The Senator in the Scarecrow [Chapter Fourteen: The Lollipop Guild]
Author: ladychi
Beta Babes: katmorning, cathmarchr
Graphic Banner & Custom Icon: ladyredraven
Characters/Pairings: Booth/Brennan, Hodgins/Angela, Cam, Sweets, Wendell, Clark, Parker Booth, various OCs
Rating: M for language, graphic violence and graphic sex
Summary: It's August in western Kansas and a Senator's

Comments

[eitoph]

You touch one hair on that boy's pretty little head and I swear... heh, actually, loving the cliffhanger action we're seeing this chapter - I can really feel it all building to something and I love that I'm all caught up in it and coming along for the ride! :)

But lets be honest here, the real highlight of this chapter was always going to be the promise of a sequel already - hee, anything to prolong the love!

[ladychi]

It's pretty much going to be a non-stop barrel ride down a hill from here to the end of the fic, I can promise you that, so I'm glad you're all strapped in for a fun ride, though you'll have to wait until next week to see how Parker fares!

I'm really excited to do the sequel. I've always said I could write B/B realistically as a couple, doing their thing and solving mysteries. Let's see if I can't put my money where my mouth is.

[greendarkness88]

Yay! Another totally amazing chapter!

"I'll ask Dad. He doesn't really like that kind of stuff, sometimes. He says he's more into beer than caviar." Parker shrugged.

Parker=Love

"Do you know the name of the young woman who was raped?"

"Yeah. She's not alive, though. She died earlier this year, after her youngest son died in Afghanistan."

"Maybe it was someone related to her, though... anything could help at this point."

Carrie sighed. "Her name was Marie Hubbard."

enjoying the case, which is getting even more interesting and intriguing

This is lovely :"I'm glad we're back," Angela said firmly. "I missed my friends. I missed our little family. Paris was great, Jack, but... this is our life. You wouldn't be happy just crawling around the banks of the Seine looking at French bugs when you could be here, solving murders."
Glad Angela's ok

[ladychi]

I'm so glad everyone enjoys having Parker being so prominent in this 'verse! I don't think that'll change.

The pregnancy-in-trouble bit was far too cliche for me to indulge in, as far as Angela and Hodgins are concerned, but I enjoyed toying with you guys just a bit! :P

Thank you for your great comments about the sequel, and "Burdens". I'm so pleased just to have an audience that's invested and engaged -- it's very, very satisfying to be involved in this fandom. Thank you!

[mendenbar01]

Please tell me that Parker is safe if incommunicado for the moment. Am I really caught up now or is there another missing link? From the sounds of "madly_meg's" review I think I am finally up with you.

You tell such a great complicated case with just the right amount of personal interest in our characters. They all read very true to the "voices" in the show. Just excellent work!
D

[ladychi]

You're all caught up at this point -- you'll have to wait for Mondays from here on out! Hee! I've seen you at labsquint's journal quite a bit -- you'll have quite the day on Mondays since I tend to post in the very early morning and she posts mid-day.

I'm so glad you're enjoying the work I'm putting in to keep the characters true to themselves, tell individual story archs, and move the case forward as quickly as I can. It's quite the juggling act!

Thank you for all of your lovely comments today! It'll take me a bit to get back to you on all of them, due to some beta'ing projects I have going on at the moment, plus getting next week's update(s) ready to go, but you should know that tonight, you have truly made my evening.

Thanks, a million times, thanks!

[mendenbar01]

Turn about is fair play. You have made my day/evening as well.

There is no rush or even need to reply unless something I have said particularly strikes you. I would much rather you wrote stories.

I am an artist by trade and your fics paint marvelous word pictures for me.

Glad to see I am not the only afficianado of labsquint and Co's work. You rank right up there in terms of quality prose. And Mondays are now something to look forward to.

D

[tempertemper]

What has stuck with me since reading.. because it took me a freaking age to get back online with reviews a happening, is the image of Parker at that creek.

He is SUCH a chip off the Booth block - seeing something suspicious and knowing just what to do!

Booth'll be out of his mind with worry!

And now.. I am dying for this dance!!

[ladychi]

Aw, thanks for coming back to give me some love, TT. No matter how often you tell yourself that it's only natural for comments to go down in the middle of a long epic, sometimes, irrationally, it can be kind of depressing. We can't all be Brennan, LOL!

Parker's definitely a chip off the old block. He's very smart, he's very resourceful, and he's quick. He may be a little too much like Booth for Booth's comfort, even.

So glad you're enjoying this -- the dance comes soon! It's a little romantic and a lot exciting!