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tamoline

No Man's Land

Jul 17, 2013 20:55

Title: No Man's Land
Author:Tamoline
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: The Good Wife
Pairing: Alicia/Kalinda

Alicia never has been good at letting things go.

Written for Sweetjamielee's The "Plan B" Summer 2013 TGW Ficathon Prompt: Alicia/Kalinda: consorting with the enemy

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Comments 10

wkgreen July 17 2013, 20:26:48 UTC

Hehe...go get her Alicia!!!!

Thanks for sharing!! :)

tamoline July 17 2013, 21:11:19 UTC

Thanks!

Once I say how it had started, I really wasn't sure it could end any other way. :)

mickaela82 July 18 2013, 12:18:57 UTC

I'm fine with Alicia not being able to let go. As long as it's Kalinda and her kiss and not...anger :P

tamoline July 18 2013, 12:37:00 UTC

I suspect at the moment, letting go of either might be a problem. :) Not least because of peripheral circumstances. But this is a beginning, rather than an end, and I have faith that the two of them can work it out.

mickaela82 July 18 2013, 16:39:50 UTC

I'm fine with that, if it results in angry sex :P Yes, I DO have a one-track mind :D

hotladykisses July 18 2013, 19:33:00 UTC

Thank you Tamoline for writing this beautiful fix-it in the face of opposite business interests! I love it all: Alicia wanting to meet Kalinda again (and again) after Cary warns her against it, Kalinda becoming Alicia’s happy place all over again, and the doubts about each other's loyalty just vanishing when the facts speak for themselves… And a kiss! And Alicia running after Kalinda who had the nerve to say “goodbye” to her! For once, Alicia’s legendary stubbornness is useful :-)

Oh, and I noticed that you used the third person to narrate the story, although you usually write in the first person. I do like it, it has a different effect, but may I ask what determined your choice ?

tamoline July 18 2013, 20:30:37 UTC

Well, her stubborness had to come in useful sometime. It's just a matter of the odds catching up with her at some point. :)

I used third person because it felt right, but I think the reason that it felt right was because I'm not sure that Alicia is quite self aware enough to actually know good she is at letting things go. So the story felt like it needed that extra smidge of distance to feel real.

Or something like that. I'm honestly not quite sure. :)

I'm glad it worked for you. :) Thanks for the comment.

hotladykisses July 18 2013, 20:45:43 UTC

Yeah, using the third person to create an extra distance would have been my guess too. You’re perfectly right, Alicia is so unaware of what’s going on inside of her most of the time!

An A/K kiss in one of your fics, heh, it’s not that frequent, I will treasure it ^^

Thanks for writing the fic! :-)

g_ww July 21 2013, 21:36:03 UTC

Brilliant.

I always like your style: neat and tidy; economical with words, but saying so much with so little.

I love that Kalinda dared to kiss Alicia - and then to just walk out. (Did she think that would be an end? Was she sure Alicia wouldn't know how to respond and therefore would let her go?)

I think you've created a little side world here that is very much in keeping with cannon: nicely done.

tamoline July 21 2013, 21:58:25 UTC

Thanks!

There are authors who can do a lot with description. Alas, I'm not really one of them, but I'm glad that you think my style works.

I think that Kalinda's approximate thought process was: 'Well, I'm going to be leaving Chicago, so, since I'm never going to see her again *anyway*, I might as well cross this one thing off my list of regrets.'

I think she'd previously argued herself into a state where she would never try because *of course* it would just mess things up.
Not having to worry about the consequences can be a tremendously freeing thing.