Fic: a bailar (TSCC, Sarah/Ellison)

[pellucid]

I had time to write fic! Well, okay, I wrote fic instead of doing a bunch of other things I should have done this afternoon. But still: fic! For chaila43!!! Happy Belated, my dear!

Title: a bailar

Author's Notes: A little TSCC snippet in belated honour of chaila43's birthday. 1700 words, Sarah/Ellison-ish, post-finale. There's a four-letter word or two, but

Comments

[pellucid]

YAY!!! I'm so glad you liked it!!! This was not at all the story I'd planned to write (that one is Sarah, three weeks prior to this one, including that night on the couch, and it will happen--in fact, I sort of see myself writing various little pieces, all in the same 'verse, about them, but who knows!), but I couldn't get the image of them dancing out of my head. And yes, I was also rather enamored of the dancing as a metaphor! :)

I'm such a sucker for their wariness (neither will leave Savannah to the other--ha, so true) mixed with strange familiarity and the strange dance they do as they orbit each other and incrementally inch closer.

Oh yes, me too! I'm particularly glad that worked for you here. Because they're not going to be friends--at least not for a long while and maybe not ever--yet they're also so tied together, and I just love the juxtaposition of that.

Anyway, yay!!! I'm so glad you liked it!!!

[ticketsonmyself]

I AM FULL OF LOVE! :D Will return with more feedback at some point!

[pellucid]

Aww, thank you!!! I'm so pleased you liked it! :D

[chelseagirl]

Really good! He knows how thoroughly she's disrupted his existence, but he wants her anyway. And she's just . . . who she is.

[pellucid]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it--thank you!

And she's just . . . who she is.

I was particularly struck by this idea while writing this. Sarah is certainly the better actor here. She can slip in and out of these roles, blend into the background, be whoever she needs to be in a given moment. Yet she's got such a consistent and uncompromising fundamental core, and I really love that about her.

[beccatoria]

Dude. I love you. And this story.

And knowing no spanish, I appreciated the title translation.

I love your Ellison here; more wary than my overly romantic heart would want him, but better for it, and the dancing was electric. The idea that what Sarah was terrified of was freedom is...perfect and accurate, but her having the perspecacity to realise it was an arresting moment.

I just...I want more of this forever. I want their inconspicuous adventures to never end.

Thanks for writing it and sharing.

[pellucid]

*hugs you* Thank you! I love that you love it!

I go back and forth with how romantic my heart is about these two. Sometimes I do go all squishy over them, but I think for the most part I come down with Chaila on the side of liking them a little distant and wary but circling rather inevitably around one another.

but her having the perspecacity to realise it was an arresting momentI still can't decide whether this works for me, even though yes, I wrote it. I mean, I think a) freedom is exactly what she feels in that moment and it freaks her the hell, and b) I think she does realize it. But I'm not sure she admits it to James. There is another story--the story I've been trying to write since the finale and thought I was writing for Chaila's birthday before this image of them dancing came and took over my brain--that is Sarah's pov in the immediate aftermath of "Born to Run." And it will now include this night described here (because I sort of want to write a whole bunch of little stories in this 'verse--you may get your wish of more of

[ticketsonmyself]

I think she does realize it. But I'm not sure she admits it to James.

That all sounds right for Sarah!

I sort of want to write a whole bunch of little stories in this 'verse--you may get your wish of more of this forever!

YAAAAAY! :D

I'm not sure whether it actually goes here or not, but I did want her to be honest and vulnerable with James, even if just for a moment, so there we go.

I'm easy when it comes to them, admittedly, but I think it does. :)

[hereswith]

I really enjoyed this, the connection between them, her moment of vulnerability and how he can't seem to drink inconspicuously so she dances with him instead. I'd be glad to read more of this 'verse, if you do end up writing other stories about them.

[pellucid]

Thanks so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)