Fic: Halloween Traditions

[garrideb]

title: Halloween Traditions
rating: mild PG-13
word count: ~2,000
warnings: none
summary: James and Michael have their first big fight. Michael follows James to a Halloween beach party with hopes of making up.
author's note: written as a Halloween treat for luninosity from her prompt "Scottish or Irish Halloween customs." I used this site as my main

Comments

[avictoriangirl]

This was lovely. ♥

[garrideb]

Thank you!!

[anonymous]

Aww, so sweet. This was a nice bedtime story for me :)

[garrideb]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[luninosity]

Michael had never felt threatened by almonds or peanuts before, and he wasn't going to start now.

So glorious! So, so glorious! And FOR ME. *hugs fic and you possessively* Thank you!

Honestly, I love so much about this--Tolkien jokes, of course, and divination raisins, and Deadpool-as-Elsa, brilliant--but especially the emotion of it. Because that's an absolutely realistic first fight, an argument not for the standard reasons one might expect in fic, but because they're both right in different ways, both reading the situation differently-Michael's trying to defend James, which is a good thing, and James doesn't want to have to BE defended, because the them-versus-each-other shouldn't happen.

And I love Michael's quiet determination, unquestioning: they can work this out, no matter what. Not finding James is not an option. Listening to those first divination nuts also not an option. They'll change the ritual if they have to. Chocolate's better anyway. <3

You are splendid, and so is this. <333

[garrideb]

Aww, thank you! *enthusiastic cuddles*

This was for you so of course there had to be Tolkien references. I haven't read the Silmarillion, but my sister read it at bedtime for the exact reason James gives ;-) And I'm really happy you liked the twist about their fight -- it was kind of an "aha!" moment for me, and it cemented the story in my mind.

And I love Michael's quiet determination, unquestioning: they can work this out, no matter what.

You know, I think that's the only way I've ever written Michael -- here, the vampire fic, the hallucination fic... next time I should mix it up and have a doubtful or insecure Michael. ;-)

Thank you for the prompt! I love researching things so it was fun to look up Celtic Halloween traditions. Bonfires are a personal favorite of mine, so that was a shoe-in, but the nut thing seemed so fun and quirky to me so I had to use that, too. I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

[significantowl]

Aaaah so lovely! So atmospheric - the fire, the beach, the sea-salt and the smoke. I love the divination nuts and chocolate. And the quiet humor they have while they patch things up, so perfect. They're so good together <3

[garrideb]

Thank you! I really can't imagine a relationship without humor, so it's definitely something I focus on when writing shippy stuff. I'm so glad you enjoyed my depiction of them! Thanks for reading & commenting!