Polite Intercourse

[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

Johnny went down to dinner that night -- a few minutes early so he wouldn't have to walk across the room with everyone staring at him. Assuming they felt like staring at him, which they might or might not, but why take chances? He was embarassed enough about the argument and had felt awkward around Adrian since that morning. He'd never been particularly brave and didn't feel like testing his courage right at that moment.

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[palaceelijah.livejournal.com]

*sob*

Oh Angie...
This is so incredible. Such pain and healing and damn - I am going to snuzzle Liam...

Beautiful job darlin' just beautiful...

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[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

Jess -- you know, that's kind of funny because Liam doesn't really do a lot in this chunk; he has a couple lines of dialogue in Johnny's memory and that's pretty much it. I'm curious what made you focus on Liam in this one?

I'm glad you enjoyed it, as always. :D It's funny that with so much plotting and planning and fitting and figuring going into this plotline, what really stands out is the emotions. It's like I work out the basic framework of actions and occurrences with Jay and Raven, and the characters react to it all. Their feelings are their own, and sometimes they won't even do what I tell them, but instead go dashing off in some weird direction with me following along as best I can. It's frustrating at times, but the result is pleasing so I don't fight them too much. [rueful smile]

Thanks!

Angie

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[palaceelijah.livejournal.com]

It is Liam's quiet presence.. the fact that he is shaping, "raising" these children, and from what we know about him, being a Dom and his strength - he is just such a focus.
And I love this:

Liam had quietly insisted that everyone come to dinner, washed and dressed in fresh clothing, and adhere to proper manners while eating and conversing. When challenged the first evening -- by Linus, of course -- Liam had explained that they'd all be more comfortable interacting with the rest of the world if they knew how to behave properly. "Think of it as camouflage," he'd said. "You won't always use it, but you'll feel better if it's available when you need it."

It is very close to the reasoning that my Gran'Pa gave for learning manners, basically learning anything - always be prepared, always...

And yes, the pups tend to scamper about of their own accord... *swats at them*

I really do love Johnny's posts from the road, very good.

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[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

Ahh, OK, that makes sense. I'm glad to hear you liked that part, actually, 'cause I was worrying when I posted this that most of the first scene just sort of dragged. There's only one real plot-point in the whole post and Jay'll tell you I was fussing a bit about that when I posted. Liam nudged me about the etiquette thing while I was writing Johnny coming in and sitting down, and it made sense to me from a therapy-and-rehabilitation POV, but I was afraid readers would be going, "Yeah, yeah, whatever, get on with it...." He wouldn't let me leave it out, though, so there it is. I'm happy it worked for you. :D

Your Gran'Pa sounds like a pretty smart guy. :) I wish someone had explained it like that to me when I was a kid. I thought manners were stupid until I was an adult. [duck] Now I read Miss Manners for recreation, and I'm amazed how basic and practical 95% of it is. LOL!

Thanks again for the great comments, love! Mwah!

Angie

[palace-naomi.livejournal.com]

wow that was just to beautiful.....

Nat

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[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

Nat -- thanks, I'm glad you liked it. :D I forget if I said "Hi and welcome" when you arrived, so if I didn't, well, "Hi and welcome." [grin] Sometimes it's hard to figure out if a new character is also a new writer or is an old writer with not enough to do [glances at Lex] so sometimes I don't say hello when I should. I hope you're having fun and I'm glad you're enjoying our plotline here.

Angie

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[palace-naomi.livejournal.com]

:) "Hiya" and thank you for welcoming me. Im really enjoying the plotline and cant wait to read more

Nat

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[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

Well, I was off on that vacation for a couple of weeks and still have a lot of catching up to do. [flail] So you'll probably be seeing enough Johnny in the next week or so to start getting a bit sick of him, although I hope I can keep it interesting enough that everyone will forgive me. Assuming of course that the boys cooperate -- sometimes I need a pair of pliers to drag the words out of them, but we've been [cough] discussing that and hopefully I'll be getting more cheerful assistance in the future. OK, maybe "cheerful" isn't the right word, all things considered.... [rueful smile]

You're very welcome, though, and thank you for your comments! [beam]

Angie

[palace-guy.livejournal.com]

(See- I'm just having too much fun with the icon to switch users...)

I told you in chat how much I liked this piece, (use up all my good feedback in chat- I swear) and - hell... going to go and find actual chat bit. This was right after you'd fussed about there only being one plot point in the piece:

You know what? I liked that it was that simple. Something about that just hit. [Johnny] doesn't need the big preamble, the pin you to the ground and MAKE you talk like Harry and Sean do. He's like Christian - thinks about it for several days, and then just goes for it. (like how Chrisitan did with the with Harry/Christian convo where they finally talked about the raid.)

And I think that's truly the case here- even though you weren't intending there to be a parallel, it exists, nevertheless. It's simple and it gets the job done, and you see some great character stuff (echoes Jess) in quite a short little piece.

Well done there, Angie!

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[palace-johnny.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks, love! [hugz] Yeah, it's funny how Johnny and Christian turned out to be alike in that way At least Harry probably won't have to be beating them over the head once they're in a position to actually talk to each other. Or.... Huh. I don't know. Talking to Adrian is one thing, but I don't know if Johnny'd be able to talk to Christian about the same subject. :P We'll see. Have Harry keep his BFB handy just in case, 'kay?

And I'm glad the first scene worked out well. I guess Liam was right about that. I'm glad I listened to him, but I know he's going to be just insufferable for at least a week. [grin]

Hugs,

Angie