Fic: Quiet Aftermath

[sierra_foxx]

Title: Quiet Aftermath
Author: sierra_foxx
Fandom: Castle
Characters: Castle, Martha, mentions of Beckett, Alexis, Ryan & Esposito
Rating/Genre: G, Het, Gen
Spoilers: Assumes the reader has seen S3 finale
Summary: His frame telegraphed a quiet devastation to the observer louder than a press release ever could.
Author's Notes: This is what I was doing

Comments

[lauratnz]

Hon! You wrote fic! You wrote Castle fic!!!laskfjañsldfjasñdlfkj

This story is beautiful, Ms Foxx. I love Martha to bits but I don't think I've come across many Martha-centric fics yet, so seeing this on the flist made me very very excited (hence the frantic keysmashing lol)

I can really hear her voice in this, you know? Castle's too. Fabulous.

She might be a little out there most of the time, but she's there when it really counts, isn't she? Your story reminded me of that "don't waste another minute of it" moment in 3.24, which was one of my favorite moments of the finale. Fabulous window into their mother son relationship!

This line:

“Well, I’m a bit late to the Mother of the Year party, but I’m here now, darling.”

is fantastic. It's HER.

The coffee reference made me smile like a fool and I really liked R&E looking after Alexis.

Hon? I loved the whole damn thing. Moar plz nao lol

[sierra_foxx]

Oh Laura, I am touched. *g* You don't keysmash for just anyone, lol.

But yes, it IS nice to be back in the fanfic saddle again after so long - Martha is one of those characters I simply adore and I have a feeling there'll be more Martha-centric fic from me in the not-to-distant future. *g*

Really appreciate the very kind words, hon - it was a bit nerve-wracking posting actually, coz it's been a while!!

[lormats]

this was beautiful ♥

[sierra_foxx]

Hiya! Appreciate the read - glad you enjoyed it. *g*

[rosie_spleen]

Good onya woman! Love this, especially coz it's something we mightn't see and really reminds me of their joined hands scene in 3:24. It's nice he can finally say the words. You've really got Martha's voice there, bb. WELL DONE.

This is moi fave: She squeezed his hand in response. “Well, I’m a bit late to the Mother of the Year party, but I’m here now, darling.”

Because you know what? She really is. I love their relationship and I love this fic.

(darls? Did you realize that you don't share the table I've started but you have your own prompt table, hence 30 fics? ROFL. I thought about this this arvo, and I laughed loudly. YOu don't have to commit to 30 fics, but you can easily do it ; )

x

[sierra_foxx]

See what you've started? I now have twenty-freaking-nine more prompts to go!! *facepalms* If you already guessed, I was a bit slow on the uptake with that table, lol - didn't realise it was going to be my OWN. But that's okay... we'll see how I go!

Thanks as always for all your encouragement, Rosie - as we've talked about before, we both love Martha's character - she brings an added and much needed layer to the show and to Castle himself. I really enjoyed playing around with this and am so happy that her 'voice' rings true. I seem to have a tendency to write about the ensemble characters of a show, usually never the main ship. But you know what, that's okay by me.

Oh, and btw: do you realise how FEW Martha icons there are about the place?? LOL. Took me ages to find this one!!

[haltlos]

This was wonderful and very ic! :)

[sierra_foxx]

Hello and welcome to my journal - glad you enjoyed this! Hopefully, there'll be more fic to come. *g*

[wrldpossibility]

Castle fic from teh_foxx?! Whooot!

Love the second to last line, i.e. the Mother of the Year party. lol And is it wrong that I so enjoy reading Castle's utter anguish? Because I do.

[sierra_foxx]

Hahaha - yeah, it's been a while since I played in the fic pool, hasn't it?

But Castle is just one of those shows that prods the muse, as you've since discovered, hon! Glad you enjoyed this - and it's not wrong to love reading about the anguish of Castle, lol - I could answer that by asking if it's wrong to love writing about it?! Because I like doing that, too. *g*