Comments | lifein1973: Ficathon 2008 Pinch-Hit Fic: Fallen, by jantalaimon. Brown Cortina. LoM/A2A x-over.

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Ficathon 2008 Pinch-Hit Fic: Fallen, by jantalaimon. Brown Cortina. LoM/A2A x-over.

Oct 02, 2008 09:11

TITLE: Fallen
AUTHOR: Janni
EMAIL: jantalaimon@livejournal.com
WORD COUNT: 3220
STYLE/WARNINGS/SPOILERS: Brown Cortina/Quattro. AU. Character death. Spoilers through S2.08 of LoM and for S1.01 of A2A. Het and slash which I will not specify here so as to preserve plottiness. Mild BDSM, themes and language of a sexual nature betwixt and between ( Read more... )

fic, fic type: het, character: annie, ficathon 2008, fic type: slash

Comments 40

m31andy October 2 2008, 14:29:44 UTC

Not read it yet as I want to take my time over this - you do know who your recipient is, don't you?!

*smiles sweetly*

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 14:34:20 UTC

Why do you think I didn't ask you to beta? ;)

m31andy October 2 2008, 14:40:34 UTC

Smart girl!

BTW: MARRY ME!

That was utterly *fantastic* and the last line was a killer!

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 15:01:34 UTC

*g* There was always the possibility I was wrong. I was only guessing; I was never actually told who the recipient is. But I thought it was awfully obvious, and would have been much more surprised if it wasn't you! XD

BTW: MARRY ME!

Oh, that means you and Loz will have to fight over me. Or else share. XDDDD

*eg* Whew! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and the last line as well! ;)

Thread 11

darthfi October 2 2008, 14:41:37 UTC

Just skimmed it quickly after squeeing at it finally arriving - and I love it.

Although, like another great character, Annie hasn't so much fallen as sauntered vaguely downwards.

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 15:03:27 UTC

:D I'm glad it's fully Twin-approved! >3

Mmmm...I actually wasn't thinking of Annie in terms of the title so much as I was thinking of all of CID. Annie included, to a degree, but by the end, I think maybe she's come out the best of all of them. Sam was right, in the end---the world *did* revolve around him, just not perhaps the way he wanted it to. :P

jean_geanie October 2 2008, 14:42:07 UTC

just Brilliant... I LOVE Annie in this and m31andy is right the last line is definitely a killer ;)

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 15:07:42 UTC

Thank you very, very much! :) I am fully behind the dark!Annie subgenre. ;)

m31andy October 2 2008, 15:59:27 UTC

We so need more evil!Annie fic. There's not that much out there, AFAIK. There's the Five Uses for the Stringer, of course (*G*) and I'm pretty sure someone wrote one where Annie was doing bad things and blaming Sam. Was that Loz? You? Or did I dream that one???

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 16:22:01 UTC

It wasn't me! And now I want to find it and read it! I wonder if it was one of Loz's that I missed? Or one of anyone's that I missed? I have missed a lot. I'm trying to remedy that, but it takes *time*. XD

Thread 14

candesgirl October 2 2008, 14:58:31 UTC

Gorgeous! Annie is just not someone I put a lot of faith behind when it comes to fic, but you are seriously making me rethink that stance.

In particular I really enjoyed the bit with her and Ray and how she just knew what he'd like, what he'd need, looks like that degree really done her good ;) Also, this line: And all the while, pulling Alex in close and allowing her hands to go where they would over that slim, birdlike frame. So alike... she mused. So very alike, it's almost like.. Brilliant, right along with the end, really brilliant.

Loved it.

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 15:10:22 UTC

Thank you! :) She's really difficult to write. I mean, I normally get really intimidated by writing Gene, but Annie is, I think, even more difficult because we see so much less of her in the show.

With the psychology degree, and the prompt as given, it just worked out like math to me. I was actually quite surprised when it was Ray who ended up paying her a visit, but it turns out my fingers knew better than my brain at that minute. XDXD

Thank you! :D

candesgirl October 2 2008, 15:25:57 UTC

She really is intimidating to write, definitely because she isn't in the show much. Gene is intimidating in a whole different way *wink wink* yet Sam I can write till the cows come, er, home? Yeah.

Don't you love when your fingers type out something that your brain later goes "Huh, wow! Good job!" on? I know I do!

jantalaimon October 2 2008, 15:32:08 UTC

Yeah, I have the same problem with our main three. :) Sam is just...well...he's so easy. *eg*

My fingers taking over is sometimes a very good thing indeed...as the rent-boy said to the copper! ;)

Thread 5

saintvic October 2 2008, 20:57:00 UTC

This was intense, complex and utterly compelling. Love how you have woven all the prompts together and the situations and developments feel natural and realistic. Great view of Annie throughout the whole thing. Thank you.

jantalaimon October 3 2008, 14:45:03 UTC

:) I was trying. It's funny, I started out with a small idea in my head, and then thought to myself, "what if I try to weave in *all* these prompts? Bet no one else has done *that*!" And then my brain started to see how it could work, and this is what happened. :)

Thank you! :D

mikes_grrl October 16 2008, 19:01:28 UTC

Ditto to what Vic said! Very compelling, even when the prompt left me cold. You did such a marvelous job of unraveling Annie! Which I mean in the best way, natch.

Love the bits and pieces of story colliding into character history, and YES YES YES that last line was an "OMG" moment. Just killer.

Fantastic!

jantalaimon October 16 2008, 19:19:01 UTC

*g*

Looks to me like Annie's busy unraveling everyone else, so someone had to do it. XD

I know I've said this before, and elsewhere, but when I'm not writing crack, I really do place a great value on believable extrapolation. :) Which is to say, I do what I can.

Thank you! :D