Comments | tielan: Sanctuary fic: "Team Bonding Exercises" - PG-13 [Kate, Henry, Will, Helen, the Big Guy]

tielan

Sanctuary fic: "Team Bonding Exercises" - PG-13 [Kate, Henry, Will, Helen, the Big Guy]

Feb 20, 2011 21:49

TITLE: Team Bonding Exercises
SUMMARY: It's Valentine's Day, and it's a full house at the Sanctuary....
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: humour, team
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, not making any profits from this...
NOTES: I always intend to do more for these challenges, but there's never enough time, inspiration, or plot. sfaflashfic's Romance challenge. May not contain ( Read more... )

character: kate freelander, fic: sanctuary, fic

Comments 15

artaxastra February 20 2011, 11:00:22 UTC

Squeee! Oh that's wonderful! I love it! Go Kate! I like so many little things about this one, Henry's playing Cupid and its disastrous consequences, Will being sad, Helen not liking humiliation, and of course her choice of movie!

tielan February 21 2011, 07:43:23 UTC

I'm glad you liked it!

I think Kate would see the patterns forming, although she naturally wouldn't be able to predict the eventual outcomes. And Helen, having seen how far women have comes since the days she was denied Oxford, would hold a special distaste for the humiliation of women in certain modern rom-coms.

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tielan February 21 2011, 07:45:16 UTC

I see Kate as the person who usually drags other people into doing things. Everyone else would be reasonably happy doing their own thing, but Kate would be all "Pizza night!" And if they didn't turn up at the appointed time, she'd go and drag them out.

Helen would definitely hate some of the modern rom-coms.

enigmaticblues February 20 2011, 16:58:00 UTC

Hee! I love that Kate made them all watch a Bollywood movie.

tielan February 21 2011, 07:46:10 UTC

It's a very Kate kind of thing, I think: to a) drag them all together, b) make them watch Bollywood (or, really, anything with singing and dancing)!

diamondinsanity February 20 2011, 20:24:25 UTC

I love how it's the most ironic Valentine's Day when you look back at everything that happens afterwards. Win!

tielan February 21 2011, 07:47:44 UTC

Hindsight is perfect! Thanks for commenting!

oboetheres February 21 2011, 00:45:48 UTC

Lovely fic. :D

And I'm with Helen and Kate on that one. Humiliation =/= funny.

tielan February 21 2011, 07:48:26 UTC

Thank you!

I have a humiliation squick - stuff that makes me cringe. And an awful lot of rom coms make me cringe these days.

oboetheres February 21 2011, 08:07:19 UTC

Me too. My general response to shows or movies that threaten humiliation is to either pause them, or go look for a snack in the kitchen until the situation is past.

tielan February 21 2011, 08:37:09 UTC

See, my general response to such shows/movies is to turn off the TV or walk away.

Or, if I'm really into the show to wince my way through it...