(Lol, deleted and reposted because I fail with keyboard shortcuts)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER, SERIOUSLY.
I love that with this request you guys all sort of intuitively wrote what my absolute favourite tropes are -- zombie!fic, apocalype!fic, etc. I am being so spoiled! And clearly I love King (and The Stand in particular) so this is just like, a whole lot of AWESOME in one package.
I can't even tell you how awesome this entire concept is -- the whole part about Charlotte burying her mother, starting the drive across England and confronting the actual reality -- and loneliness -- of what's happened, coming across Daniel (and all the call-backs to the bomb and the fact "whatever happened, happened" isn't the way it worked out is just so awesome and eerie), the haircut scene (LOVE; there's another trope I adore ... this list is getting unmanageable, lol) and the slow, steady way their relationship progresses (the hugging! The sharing of small spaces!).
And this, especially -- It’s not bloody rocket science; she likes him, he apparently likes her more than enough and so why not? Everyone else is dead and gone because of a stupid virus that wiped away 99.4% of the planet. It’s not like they have something to lose.
And he reciprocates the kiss, slowly at the beginning, his fingers shaking as they tangle in her hair, like he doesn’t remember how but would very much like to recall the mechanics if given just a short time to re-learn. And he does re-learn, quite fast actually, and she doesn’t think she has ever been kissed so… so nicely. Like he wants to take his time with her. Like he’s so much into it that nothing else matters. Like he wants this so much that he’ll shake until he bursts.
I pretty much want to cry it's so perfect and amazing -- I've seriously read that particular passage (the whole thing, but this especially) like a thousand times because I love it so much, and it's such a great fusion of what happened before and their present.
And then the piano-playing (yes!) and finding Desmond and Penny -- especially that moment between Desmond and Dan -- and that the story ends with nothing really resolved, but at least the recognition that it's not all bad; that's so completely awesome and fitting.
Whew! Long comment is long, but I hope you know how much I ADORE this; thank you SO MUCH for writing this! :D
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Date: 2010-07-18 08:51 pm (UTC)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER, SERIOUSLY.
I love that with this request you guys all sort of intuitively wrote what my absolute favourite tropes are -- zombie!fic, apocalype!fic, etc. I am being so spoiled! And clearly I love King (and The Stand in particular) so this is just like, a whole lot of AWESOME in one package.
I can't even tell you how awesome this entire concept is -- the whole part about Charlotte burying her mother, starting the drive across England and confronting the actual reality -- and loneliness -- of what's happened, coming across Daniel (and all the call-backs to the bomb and the fact "whatever happened, happened" isn't the way it worked out is just so awesome and eerie), the haircut scene (LOVE; there's another trope I adore ... this list is getting unmanageable, lol) and the slow, steady way their relationship progresses (the hugging! The sharing of small spaces!).
And this, especially -- It’s not bloody rocket science; she likes him, he apparently likes her more than enough and so why not? Everyone else is dead and gone because of a stupid virus that wiped away 99.4% of the planet. It’s not like they have something to lose.
And he reciprocates the kiss, slowly at the beginning, his fingers shaking as they tangle in her hair, like he doesn’t remember how but would very much like to recall the mechanics if given just a short time to re-learn. And he does re-learn, quite fast actually, and she doesn’t think she has ever been kissed so… so nicely. Like he wants to take his time with her. Like he’s so much into it that nothing else matters. Like he wants this so much that he’ll shake until he bursts.
I pretty much want to cry it's so perfect and amazing -- I've seriously read that particular passage (the whole thing, but this especially) like a thousand times because I love it so much, and it's such a great fusion of what happened before and their present.
And then the piano-playing (yes!) and finding Desmond and Penny -- especially that moment between Desmond and Dan -- and that the story ends with nothing really resolved, but at least the recognition that it's not all bad; that's so completely awesome and fitting.
Whew! Long comment is long, but I hope you know how much I ADORE this; thank you SO MUCH for writing this! :D