This is my second time reading too - do you have it posted elsewhere? How did I not comment before. this is really wonderful.
This isn’t how it goes. But by the time he remembers that, it’s far too late and he’s looking at her on the bathroom floor.
Ah this...this "incident" that no one likes to remember - but amazingly, you make it really work here, make it brief and sad and horrible but almost poetic. All the sense of manipulation by the writers/creators stripped away. And it sums up the entirety of S6 - no, it was never supposed to be about him pulling her down into the dark with him, and if he'd known how to give her what she needed, she would have.
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Date: 2012-10-16 07:24 pm (UTC)This isn’t how it goes. But by the time he remembers that, it’s far too late and he’s looking at her on the bathroom floor.
Ah this...this "incident" that no one likes to remember - but amazingly, you make it really work here, make it brief and sad and horrible but almost poetic. All the sense of manipulation by the writers/creators stripped away. And it sums up the entirety of S6 - no, it was never supposed to be about him pulling her down into the dark with him, and if he'd known how to give her what she needed, she would have.