Year After Year (Hathaway/Wallflower Next Generation)

[leobrat]

Very, very close to the end of what's already been written...

Title: Year After Year
Characters: Jake Valentine, Harry Rutledge, Poppy Rutledge, Elizabeth Rutledge, Anna Rutledge, Caroline Rutledge, Merritt Marsden, Isabelle Hunt, Phoebe St. Vincent, Jeremy Hunt, Rose Swift
Rating: pg
Word Count: 2,608
Summary: You put your arms around me and I'm

Comments

[lapiccolina]

Jake Valentine makes me sad. :(

Finally, someone asks Jeremy, as they have asked Elizabeth, how much do they actually know about each other?!? LOL. About time.

I love that Harry never allowed a wedding at the hotel, and now with Elizabeth's wedding, he's being an utter pill. HAHA.

Rose is just something, isn't she. Knowing what her mom went though, makes sense she doesn't ever want to be a mother. I don't get why she doesn't want to get married though.

DOES IT HAVE TO END?!?!?

[leobrat]

No, no it will not end! LOL, just you know...the easy part for me is ending, and then I'm going to have to *write* again (but I'm excited, and I totally know what happens to everyone, from Elizabeth and Mirela, even to Brenna...Well, I know what happens to everyone except for Russell and Emmaline. They suck to write!)

Rose is growing up while suffragism in England is rising. She's very inspired by it and wants to find a way to avoid the institute of marriage, just to make a stand. It will be very interesting (I hope) to see how she goes about accomplishing this. But...right now, she's fourteen. Nobody knows everything they think they know at fourteen.

Of course Harry is being a monster about his daughter's wedding. He's a complete control freak!

...Are you understanding Jake a little bit more??

[lapiccolina]

A little bit more.

He seems to be afraid of the goodness that Poppy and the children exude. Afraid and resentful because the one thing he wants, he really can't have. :( And he's not interested in anything else, huh. :(

[leobrat]

I have a feeling LK would not like what I am doing with her characters here...

Jake has basically dedicated his life to making sure Harry succeeds, but other than money and relative respect, he hasn't really had much of a life of his own. So at some point, it's become like...while he isn't nearly a part of the Rutledge family, they are the closest he's ever had...but how far removed he still is...

But Jake's story does not end here, not at all...

[xlovebecomesher]

Awww poor Jake - that's has got to be hard for him! I wonder if he'll ever confess?

I love the dynamic between Isabelle and Jeremy - actually that whole group! Their conversation made me smile!

And Rose...that is a lot of information to process and come to that decision at such a young age!