“Then get out,” he tells her, and it’s the nicest thing he’s ever said to her.
Shit. That's... wow. It made my blood run cold! (I love when fic does that, btw).
Also, I love how you manage to weave your (our??!!!) understanding of Alex as complex and intuitive and self aware and self doubting and what ever the opposite of oblivious is and a thousand other words I can't seem to come up with right now, through this... particularly...
(For a good long while, he walked away will be repeated as an excuse to all manner of reactive behavior, without ever really analyzing the behavior – the action – itself.
He walked away.
This is fact.
His feet moved across linoleum and he cleared the room and then another and a few hallways to boot before he found an unoccupied on-call room and locked himself in there.
It’s fact. Unchangeable and unarguable.
Without context, fact can be biased. It can also be irrelevant. And people miss a great deal of context when it suits them.
Alex walked away, yes, but there was a reason, maybe reasons plural, but it all boils down to one thing: he is no good to her when busted up himself, and just like he can see the difference between okay and not okay with her, the same can be said for himself.
He knows it’s a game face. He knows it’s an act. He knows its all bullshit and the defense mechanisms that save him.
Honesty always was his strong suit.)
YES, to all of it!!!
Also, I totally squee'd at this...
There’s a word for that kind of symmetry. Several, in fact. in yours because of this...
The symmetry seems fitting. in mine...!
It's clutching at straws but whatevs... I call the wavelength thing!!!
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Date: 2010-10-01 12:14 am (UTC)Shit. That's... wow. It made my blood run cold! (I love when fic does that, btw).
Also, I love how you manage to weave your (our??!!!) understanding of Alex as complex and intuitive and self aware and self doubting and what ever the opposite of oblivious is and a thousand other words I can't seem to come up with right now, through this... particularly...
(For a good long while, he walked away will be repeated as an excuse to all manner of reactive behavior, without ever really analyzing the behavior – the action – itself.
He walked away.
This is fact.
His feet moved across linoleum and he cleared the room and then another and a few hallways to boot before he found an unoccupied on-call room and locked himself in there.
It’s fact. Unchangeable and unarguable.
Without context, fact can be biased. It can also be irrelevant. And people miss a great deal of context when it suits them.
Alex walked away, yes, but there was a reason, maybe reasons plural, but it all boils down to one thing: he is no good to her when busted up himself, and just like he can see the difference between okay and not okay with her, the same can be said for himself.
He knows it’s a game face. He knows it’s an act. He knows its all bullshit and the defense mechanisms that save him.
Honesty always was his strong suit.)
YES, to all of it!!!
Also, I totally squee'd at this...
There’s a word for that kind of symmetry. Several, in fact. in yours because of this...
The symmetry seems fitting. in mine...!
It's clutching at straws but whatevs... I call the wavelength thing!!!
Can't wait for part two.