I finally got Didn’t We Almost Have it All updated this week. I have this visual in my head, though it hasn’t made it into the fiction, of Jim saying to Bones. “We almost had it all, didn’t we, Bones?” Of course there was a Whitney song that the title came from, but I still see that scene in my head between Jim and Bones.
I would place that scene in the hospital after Jim wakes up after the shuttle accident and Bones, recovering himself, comes to see him. By this time, Jim knows that Spock and Uhura’s wedding is going to be soon. Chekov is dead. As are the pilot and the security guard obviously.
I think in my mind that Jim is particularly haunted by the guard’s death. Because he thinks here is a person who had hopes and dreams and people that cared about him, who he mattered to, and yet Jim didn’t even consider him when choosing who to save. I think that’s powerful stuff.
Anyway, during this conversation that apparently took place off the pages of my story, during a time when their conversation has lagged, for the first time in years, Bones and Jim aren’t even sure what to say to each other, and Jim finally says, “We almost had it all, didn’t we, Bones?”
Next up for updating is supposed to be Turning Page, my story of Spock and Jim’s shore leave. I got the idea from a song, of course, called Turning Page. I’m not actually working on it though because I am working on my continuing story for the blog that will end up on AO3. My sorta old married Spirk, but not so old. I think on AO3 it might continue into December and be part of my 2017 holiday stories, the other of which is the one I already previewed on here. That’s it for this year. Two.
I have started my second chapter of Will You Have Sex With Me so you can expect that at some point in the not too distant future.
Tonight we are off to see Only the Brave which is the true story of firefighters who die. So I can expect to be depressed.
I have no real plans for this coming weekend either, at least that I know of, at this point. Our weather is firmly in Fall territory now so I am quite pleased with that.
On the reading front I am currently riveted by IT by Stephen King. I loved the movie that was out earlier and am looking forward to the sequel. I’d love to see Chris in it but not sure if that will happen. I am not the only one either as I saw some article who mentioned what that writer’s ideal cast would be for the adults (they were children in the first) in the sequel and Chris was among them.
On the future vacation front, I have now paid off our cruise and also purchased our plane tickets for it at the end of January. Guess it is really going to happen. I still have to pay my property taxes and my car registration and afford Christmas too. Ugh! LOL
November 7, 2017 at 10:23 am
Speaking of gifts, what were you gonna send me again for Christmas? I forgot.
(((ducking)))
You have my complete permission to put that pic of Chris up on the front page and leave it there for.ev.er.
I would like to propose an alternate schedule for you, for the foreseeable future (should take you into 2020, easy).
1. Every Monday: Holiday/Winter, plus that little Pinto one where Zach is an assistant
2. Every Tuesday: Primal
3. Every Wednesday: Tonight I’m…you know. I mean, after all, it IS hump day.
4. Every Thursday: My Devotion
5. Every Friday: FF plus the Cinderella one till completed. Then brand new multi multi multi chapter Pinto
6. Every Saturday: A million added chapters to Will You
7. Every Sunday: Didn’t We (the most reverent of the group – fits Sundays)
Please! My modesty! You don’t need to thank me for taking it on myself to be your intern PA from thousands of miles away.
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November 7, 2017 at 10:30 am
You certainly have quite the imagination my dear, LOL
Thanks for the list of your preferences. I am fairly certain I could not keep that pace up even if I wanted to! LOL
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November 7, 2017 at 10:43 am
You absolutely could if you’d just win the lottery and quit your dam job!
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November 7, 2017 at 11:09 am
The saddest part of Didn’t We is that absolutely everyone “almost” but didn’t have it all.No one is untouched by tragedy and loss of some kind. Some just massively more than others.
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November 8, 2017 at 8:02 am
That’s very true, all too true I guess. And I forgot to say I do love this gif of him blinking and then licking his lips. sigh, he’s too gorgeous
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November 7, 2017 at 11:33 am
That last chapter of Didn’t We Almost Have It All was just…my heart 😦 It is powerful stuff, what you said. I think Jim would definitely be haunted by it.
I’m trying to get my friend to see Suburbicon with me last this afternoon. I voted, took Grammy to vote, and now don’t have anything to do as the schools are closed.
I just may have to see It if Chris is in the equal. I’ll watch it through my fingers with Eleni telling me when its safe to look LOL
Cruise! Yay! Excited for you! and jealous 🙂
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November 8, 2017 at 8:01 am
Yeah that story is a heart ripper for sure. We didn’t have any voting to do this time. But I was pleased to see some of the results coming out of Virginia. Surbicon looked like a DVD movie to see after it’s released lol. Only the Brave was very well done. Long movie though and because it’s based on real events quite sad at the end, but well done for sure.
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