17 - The least random of posts

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Stories of people
Clinging to paperless air
The returning cold

A new prompt post, the first one of the year!
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Skateboard (Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

http://twitter.com/SteveHiltonGuru/status/210493944872714241

Now that he isn't busy getting underfoot of civil servants, Steve has bought a new skateboard. I'll take fic of anything. IDK, maybe he's trying to impress Ro?

Re: Skateboard (Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

+1

Fill 1/2-Skateboards and Paperbacks With Paragraphs Underlined (gen. angsty Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

Power is a strange thing and at times he could barely recognize any of them. Osborne was always a bit of a prat, but David, Steve isn't sure he knows who David is any more

Fill 2/2-Skateboards and Paperbacks With Paragraphs Underlined (gen. angsty Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

Sometime in July, the feelings of loneliness catch up with Steve. The running just isn’t enough. On a whim, he buys a skateboard with a green pattern and blue wheels. Rachel is livid and blames it on him having a midlife crisis. But it isn’t that. The skateboard has to symbolize something else; perhaps his quick successes and the risks not considered

Re: Fill 2/2-Skateboards and Paperbacks With Paragraphs Underlined (gen. angsty Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

<3

Ro walks out of Downing Street with him one last time. He hands over a well loved paperback from his library. The cover is faded with a few rips and the pages have creases in the corners from Ro folding to mark his place.

“I underlined the passages that I think you’ll like. If you just want to skim it.” Ro’s self-confidence evaporates, trying to explain why he is gifting a book to Steve. Steve thanks him, feeling just lucky with a twinge of something else. He has something of Rohan’s to keep with him.

All the Steve/Ro feelings

He cooks, perfecting his goulash recipe, and contemplates about blowing off the teaching gig at Stanford and opening that Hungarian restaurant he’s often dreamed about.
I can picture that.

David doesn’t respond to text messages. They aren’t even about politics. Steve takes his frustrations out on his legs, running and trying not to feel the loss of a twenty year friendship. At first, he was able to maintain some connection to England through Michael and Rohan, but now the emails and occasional Skype

Re: Fill 2/2-Skateboards and Paperbacks With Paragraphs Underlined (gen. angsty Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

OP

:D My prompt got filled!

Okay now that I'm done squeeing over receiving a fill, I love this. I was expecting something cracky and this is just great. It is realistic and touches subtly yet very effectively on Steve's exit and new life in Cali. The fondness for Rohan is also a nice addition. And I really adore the little nods to the personal things we know about Steve. (cooking, ambitions to open a Hungarian restaurant, fitness)

<3 Thank you!

Re: Fill 2/2-Skateboards and Paperbacks With Paragraphs Underlined (gen. angsty Steve Hilton)

[anonymous]

I took a chance reading this because the title caught my eye. No regrets. Steve's sadness and longing is captured well. From the little I've read in the papers about him, he seems like the type of person who has big ideas and a great sense of purpose. I like that he is out of his element and how he is struggling to redefine who he is without DCam.