"Lyrical"

[nestar]

Disclamer: I am not Misters Michtell, Van Sickle, or John.

Warning: This goes to a very dark place. I know there are a few people who have friended me based on my fluffy, crack fic. You want to stay away from this.

 

Dear Wyatt,

  I'm sorry for everything I said to you the other night. I was selfish in my desire to...
You are a kind, caring, brave, strong, courages man, and I'm sorry if I forgot to say that too.

  You said that it would be foolish to start on a path that would be so complicated, but you know me. Jump in head first and when things get complicated just muddle through.

  I wish that our lives could be simple. I never wanted to be a princess, to have the world on a platter. All I really wanted was you.

  So many times I wish I could have told you, face to face, but it would always be the wrong place, the wrong time, the wrong you, the wrong me.

  So, I guess this letter will have to do.

  I loved you.

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“The date on the stamp... She must have sent it out that morning right before she...”

Wyatt Cain stood and walked out of the room. He hadn't been listening anyway. The only voice he wanted to hear belonged to the woman who had sent him the letter. The woman he was on his way to see.

He walked quickly through the formal garden and towards the corps of oaks where she was.

“DG..” His voice broke as he knelt down by her grave.

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Comments

[moony-blues.livejournal.com]

Somehow I knew you were going to go there... So heartbreaking!

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Was it, maybe, the great big warning I put on this?

[moony-blues.livejournal.com]

Yeah, probably. Poor Wyatt!

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

This was the story my angst muse has been poking me to write for the last few weeks.

But now that I let her out I think she's on a role.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

You know, you do dark and angsty just as well as fluff. Don't pigeonhole yourself, mija. This is excellent.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I tend to be more happy so it's almost fun when my muse wants to go dark.

The last time I did something like this there were a few people who were shocked by it. And since I think putting "warning: character death" on the front of the story takes away from the impact, I tried to put as big of a hint as a could.

[diesa-j.livejournal.com]

Oh Wow Sad but Amazing

[erinm-4600.livejournal.com]

Woof...
*hugs you*
*hugs Cain*
*hugs you again*

That was amazing...

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

It wasn't the promised chapter of SNOTR, but I just had to write it.

[erinm-4600.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with that :)

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Good, 'cus I was going to push my sad muse back into her room, but if you're okay with it I'll just let her stay.

[erinm-4600.livejournal.com]

Do what you have to. Steve, moony_blues and I are here :)


/speaking for moony

[trystan830.livejournal.com]

so i'll comment in the proper fic.....

i know you said it goes to a "dark place" and there are a lot of meanings for "dark places." obviously, i did click, because it is always interesting to read something serious from a crack/comedy writer, or a light-hearted PWP from someone who writes deep, meaningful fics with plots.

as i did with another fic that promised "lots of angst," i scanned to the end to see what the dark place was, and i did catch the last word.

so i don't think "going to a dark place" is not enough of a warning. you really ought to have "deathfic" as a warning somewhere. when i started reading fanfic with Forever Knight, i made myself a rule - that i wouldn't read deathfics, specifically for major characters. so when i wrote the two fics i do have where a character either isn't there cause he's dead, or i killed another character within the fic, i gave "character death" and "minor character death" warnings.

just a suggestion.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

When (if) I post to the fic comms I will, but (for me) when I see "character death" in the warning it tends to take away the impact of the event.

If I had gone into my first viewing of "Serenity" with the knowledge that Wash dies, I wouldn't have cried like I did.

(I also think that 'angst' get slapped on way too many stories. So when something truly is angst people aren't ready for it.)

So that's why I didn't put a death warning.

::steps off her soapbox::

[trystan830.livejournal.com]

when I see "character death" in the warning it tends to take away the impact of the event.
yeah, i can understand that... i'd be the same way with Serenity as well.... and since it's your journal, i completely understand. :D