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thebratqueen) wrote2005-02-03 10:53 am
thebratqueen) wrote2005-02-03 10:53 am
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Self-indulgent rambling
No news on the grams front. I'm taking that in a "is good news" kind of way. Dad's back at work, Mom went to the store. These are not things that would happen if there were dire problems.
Here's hoping I'm not all on my lonesome when I go to CA next week.
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swmbo if she's watching Point Pleasant again tonight. I don't know what time I'm getting back tonight but there could be AIM or text messaging or some such if you want snarking company.
No clue what my brain capacity is today. I haven't forgotten anything major yet... I think... but the day is young. My boss is being very nice to me though as there are definitely things he could be on my ass about if he wanted, and he's not doing any of them. Yay for understanding bosses.
In what is a surprise to probably nobody, my ongoing narrative thoughts have taken a turn towards the domestic and familial. I'm in such an Daddy!Angel and Connor mode. I want all forms of Dad Angel and his son, at every age and every incarnation.
And of course the recent Trust Me verse fic I did for Wolf has me thinking about them, and how Angel would handle Connor's prom which would be coming up in a few months in their world. And sometimes my mind zings back and thinks about doing a story of the day Angel fell off the wagon. Darla's dead, he failed, and he makes the active choice to go self-destructive again.
Then I zing forward once more and it's that trip to visit Angel's sister that sticks out. Somehow Wes and Alissa can come along so it's Angel, Connor, Wes, and the baby all packed into Kathy's house, which is this total chaos of family and pets and kids of various ages. Kathy and Angel totally have this "we gave each other hell as kids but now we're adults and we're friends" brother/sister vibe going, though Angel's got this extra bit of sappiness when he looks at her because damn, she's alive and he gets to find out what happens to her.
And Kathy's husband is there and you just get this moment when Angel walks in the door of the two of them doing the manly handshake thing all "Liam" "Jim" because dude, brother in law Angel. How often do you get to play with *that* toy, huh?
And I have all these random thoughts, like Connor mostly indulging this trip for Angel's benefit and because Angel's a smart enough Dad to know that he needs to give Connor a little space so his teenage son doesn't go batshit insane at being made to be stuck with his family during the precious few weeks he has before college starts. So you get father/son bonding but also things like Connor wondering off on his own and maybe flirting with one of the local girls and Angel watching all that and marveling at how he gets to watch Connor do normal things.
And Wes and Angel are in this progressing little groove where they're not joined at the hip and didn't do the lesbian thing of basically getting married once Trust Me ended, but rather they've been spending the past few months taking it slow - taking it slow with naked touching, but taking it slow - and on the trip this exploration really comes out because they're seeing family, and that makes Wes think about whether or not he wants one and it makes Angel think about whether or not he wants Wes to be in his. And that's a big thing for Angel, because this is the first time he has *actual* family that he can offer to Wes. He's got something he never had before, and he's in a position to give that to someone else and that's very meaningful to him. Especially because he knows that now, twice over, Wes has been denied a family of his own.
So you get those moments. And Kathy knows who Wes is because she remembers reading about him in the gossip columns (and Wes is horrified to realize that in this world he's essentially a Hilton sister) so at some point she gets in his face and makes it clear that if the rich party boy makes her brother fall off the wagon again she's going to kill him. So Wes has to sit there and take it since he did earn that reputation, but OTOH he's so tempted to point out he knows Angel better than she ever could.
And moments of the conflicting memories, and which version is the right version, and which world is the world they belong in and do Angel and Wes agree on the answers to those questions. And does Wes's dad ever come looking for him and if so what happens and Angel getting to be Uncle Angel in all his dorky glory and... yeah, that.
Here's hoping I'm not all on my lonesome when I go to CA next week.
I point you up towards the subject heading as I now non-sequitur and ask
swmbo if she's watching Point Pleasant again tonight. I don't know what time I'm getting back tonight but there could be AIM or text messaging or some such if you want snarking company. No clue what my brain capacity is today. I haven't forgotten anything major yet... I think... but the day is young. My boss is being very nice to me though as there are definitely things he could be on my ass about if he wanted, and he's not doing any of them. Yay for understanding bosses.
In what is a surprise to probably nobody, my ongoing narrative thoughts have taken a turn towards the domestic and familial. I'm in such an Daddy!Angel and Connor mode. I want all forms of Dad Angel and his son, at every age and every incarnation.
And of course the recent Trust Me verse fic I did for Wolf has me thinking about them, and how Angel would handle Connor's prom which would be coming up in a few months in their world. And sometimes my mind zings back and thinks about doing a story of the day Angel fell off the wagon. Darla's dead, he failed, and he makes the active choice to go self-destructive again.
Then I zing forward once more and it's that trip to visit Angel's sister that sticks out. Somehow Wes and Alissa can come along so it's Angel, Connor, Wes, and the baby all packed into Kathy's house, which is this total chaos of family and pets and kids of various ages. Kathy and Angel totally have this "we gave each other hell as kids but now we're adults and we're friends" brother/sister vibe going, though Angel's got this extra bit of sappiness when he looks at her because damn, she's alive and he gets to find out what happens to her.
And Kathy's husband is there and you just get this moment when Angel walks in the door of the two of them doing the manly handshake thing all "Liam" "Jim" because dude, brother in law Angel. How often do you get to play with *that* toy, huh?
And I have all these random thoughts, like Connor mostly indulging this trip for Angel's benefit and because Angel's a smart enough Dad to know that he needs to give Connor a little space so his teenage son doesn't go batshit insane at being made to be stuck with his family during the precious few weeks he has before college starts. So you get father/son bonding but also things like Connor wondering off on his own and maybe flirting with one of the local girls and Angel watching all that and marveling at how he gets to watch Connor do normal things.
And Wes and Angel are in this progressing little groove where they're not joined at the hip and didn't do the lesbian thing of basically getting married once Trust Me ended, but rather they've been spending the past few months taking it slow - taking it slow with naked touching, but taking it slow - and on the trip this exploration really comes out because they're seeing family, and that makes Wes think about whether or not he wants one and it makes Angel think about whether or not he wants Wes to be in his. And that's a big thing for Angel, because this is the first time he has *actual* family that he can offer to Wes. He's got something he never had before, and he's in a position to give that to someone else and that's very meaningful to him. Especially because he knows that now, twice over, Wes has been denied a family of his own.
So you get those moments. And Kathy knows who Wes is because she remembers reading about him in the gossip columns (and Wes is horrified to realize that in this world he's essentially a Hilton sister) so at some point she gets in his face and makes it clear that if the rich party boy makes her brother fall off the wagon again she's going to kill him. So Wes has to sit there and take it since he did earn that reputation, but OTOH he's so tempted to point out he knows Angel better than she ever could.
And moments of the conflicting memories, and which version is the right version, and which world is the world they belong in and do Angel and Wes agree on the answers to those questions. And does Wes's dad ever come looking for him and if so what happens and Angel getting to be Uncle Angel in all his dorky glory and... yeah, that.