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septemberoses

The Boy

Oct 26, 2009 18:12

Title: The Boy
Author: septemberoses
Fandom: True Blood
Rating: PG, hurt/comfort, slash
Pairing: Eric/Godric
Word count: 4000
Summary: With Godric, Eric is learning that in death, as in life, things are often more complicated than they first seem.
Note: this is for the GodricEric comm Challenge 6 (hurt/comfort) and is another random installment in ( Read more... )

pairing: eric/godric, rating: pg13, beginnings, hurt/comfort, fanfiction

Comments 43

gruochrua October 28 2009, 01:37:06 UTC

This was so poignant and beautiful. I love the change that Eric has undergone from your last fic to this--his sort of hesitant, confused affection towards Godric. And Godric! I just want to bundle him up. That line--"it's a terrible thing to do to a child"--how heartbreaking coming from him.

septemberoses October 30 2009, 01:04:46 UTC

All that teenage vampire stuff? That's for the birds. Who the hell wants to be nineteen or seventeen or fifteen for all eternity? That bit in Twilight about how they move around and go to high school year after year, wtf? Worse than death. On the other hand, that's how Eric can love him, yes? Because in a sense it IS true. He's just a boy.

gruochrua October 30 2009, 02:20:20 UTC

Gah, I know exactly what you mean. Eternity in high school? Why?? I would hate to revisit my teen years even briefly. But you're so right about Eric and Godric. And as horrible as being 15 or 16 forever would be, we wouldn't get to enjoy this weird and wonderful father/son/whatever relationship otherwise. Keep writing!

septemberoses October 30 2009, 02:33:39 UTC

Yeah, well, back at you on the writing. We all like what we like, and your fics are different than mine, but you really hit my kinks ... er, will spare you the details. And (elevating my mind) they are lovely too.

I don't think I've seen your fics on GodricEric comm? Just TB fic? They have a pretty big readership, I think, I don't know if you've considered posting there.

withoutcolor October 28 2009, 02:52:29 UTC

absolutely wonderful.

eric's feelings and reactions to godric are so interesting. a beautiful transformation from where he was at in the first fic.

your beginnings stories are so well done, there will be more, yes?

on a side note, is it screwed up that i have pretty much no porn squicks, no problem with vampire anything (obviously) but the part where the creepy pervert dude gets run through on a sword made me queasy? hah, go figure.

septemberoses October 30 2009, 01:08:00 UTC

There will be more, although you're gonna have to put up with some Carsten. Also ... ye gods, I have some more scary porn snippets I guess I'll throw up (apt expression) in my journal, peaking of squick. And I'm laughing with you, the pervert getting run through was more disgusting, and I made it less so, I was grossed out too. Rape, sure. Blood and guts, ew.

withoutcolor October 30 2009, 01:40:25 UTC

Put up with more Carsten, you say? However will I manage ;)

berthablue October 28 2009, 02:57:45 UTC

Beautiful, as always. Can't wait to find out what horrors have happened to Godric!

septemberoses October 30 2009, 01:09:49 UTC

I said up there above ... somewhere ... I sort of wrote myself into a corner in a Sickle Moon fic, where I make it clear that Eric has NO idea about what happened to Godric, it has to do with Godric's maker being cruel to him. And I like all my fics to weave together and not contradict, so I have to decide whether I just ignore that one detail or find another way to make it work.

berthablue October 30 2009, 01:34:07 UTC

Hmm, that is a dilemma. I hate when my brain disagrees with itself. Most distressing, and it always seems to lose.

septemberoses October 30 2009, 01:45:47 UTC

I'm cross at myself! When I was writing Sickle Moon, which is set now, it didn't occur to me that I'd be writing these beginning fics and I could wring some excellent hurt/comfort out of Godric's sobbing to Eric about his dark secrets (sick bitch that I am.) So ... I dunno. It's tempting, but it would bug me a lot, because I am weird that way. I am working on another fairly dark H/C tortured-Godric present-day fic right now that explores these issues, I might just go there next.

ohpleaseshutup October 28 2009, 16:34:15 UTC

I absolutely loved this. The imagery (you might have noticed, I'm really into imagery) was so clear and vivid, it completely drew me in (and it wasn't even porn!). But the more I read of Eric and Godric's past, the more I start thinking of Godric's eventual demise, and how deeply Eric would be affected by it. It makes me want to imagine away the rooftop in Dallas. I guess maybe in my own little world, that part never happens.

septemberoses October 30 2009, 01:12:11 UTC

In my world, there was no roof, and Godric never went up there :) I could bore the shit out of you with a 10-paragraph screed of all the reasons Godric wouldn't have ended his life in that particular way, at least - so uncaring of Eric. So I've rejected it entirely. So, there. I'll share my world with you, it's big enough; the roof was a lie and it never happened.

berthablue October 30 2009, 01:36:15 UTC

"In my world, there was no roof, and Godric never went up there"

Roof? What is this roof you speak of? Never happened is right!

flwrpwr_vampyre October 28 2009, 20:45:08 UTC

Oh my god, I love this so much. The Godric we see here is definitely very close to the Godric we see in True Blood and it's equally sad. The nightmares gave me chills and I am definitely curious as to what he's dreaming about. I'll be waiting here patiently until the next part.

septemberoses October 30 2009, 01:13:57 UTC

I have to decide what to do about the fact that I've written other fic where Eric doesn't KNOW what's wrong with Godric, so if I have Godric confess, it contradicts this other fic, and I like all my fics to (more or less) work together. Still trying to figure out how much it matters to me. It's weird, but it's true.