Your Cruise Director ([info]cruisedirector) wrote in [info]mandc100,
@ 2004-02-23 22:14:00
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Support
Title: Support
Author: [info]cruisedirector
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Characters: Stephen, Jack
Rum to: Jack. *snogs him*


Stephen Maturin had no real need of another pair of steady hands. His own were up to the task, and Higgins' were more likely to shake anxiously with the captain there.

But Stephen could not tell Jack Aubrey that he longed merely for the touch of his fingers as comfort from the pain. Nor could he admit, afterwards, that he had thought Jack might turn pale and queasy, and sought out those signs of concern as a diversion. It was more than he had any right to ask, yet after what Jack had already given him, only a small affirmation.

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[info]mellyflori
2004-02-23 07:42 pm UTC (link)
oh, my heart!

Lovely, as always. I write Jack for an M&C RPG and every time I read one of your stories I think "Please... please let me get my characterization as good as hers." :)

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-23 08:18 pm UTC (link)
Eee! Do you do Jack in [info]holding_fast? Because if that's you, I adore that...couldn't write some of it (Jack/Tom SO not my thing) but especially the vignettes about swimming and such...

I write Jack in [info]theatrical_muse and the first-person narrative is a BITCH. I have to fight with him to make him introspective that way. Have just realized that my drabbles are 3-1 from Stephen's POV...

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[info]mellyflori
2004-02-24 03:39 am UTC (link)
Yeah.. that's my Jack. :) I'm so glad you like him! YOu're the tm Jack? I was just reading him the other day and loving him... I wondered who it was so I could flail all over them!


For some reason the Jack/Tom thing was easier than Jack/Stephen stuff because that's almost... untouchable. I love it so much and want it to be so perfect and I'm scared of messing it up. I think I've gotten past that though.. and funny that you mention it, I think I busted past it by writing something from Stephen's POV. :)

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[info]jack_aubrey
2004-02-24 09:09 am UTC (link)
I don't believe anyone has ever offered to flail all over me before. *smiles and offers you a drink*

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 09:14 am UTC (link)
For some reason the Jack/Tom thing was easier than Jack/Stephen stuff because that's almost... untouchable.

It's funny...I could write Tom with a crush on Jack, but whatever perverse for of OTPing goes on in my mind stops me from writing the reverse (it's not from any sense of fidelity...would read Aubrey/Sharpe crossover fic if I could find it, though I can't write that either).

You won't mess Jack/Stephen up! You write Jack beautifully...writing any sort of smut that would pass muster in O'Brian's terms is difficult, but I find it really hard in the first person narrative of tm to figure out what if anything Jack would SAY...

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[info]bronzelionel
2004-02-23 09:19 pm UTC (link)
Lady, you are exquisite.
Hands.
Oh, very nice. :D

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-23 10:01 pm UTC (link)
Thank you so much! Whatever is going on in that scene, it does NOT have to do with needing an extra pair of steady hands...

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[info]bronzelionel
2004-02-23 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Not entirely, at least, and in any case he wouldn't need the Captain's hands specifically.
Neat how that works out. ;D

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[info]sparowe
2004-02-24 02:11 am UTC (link)
Oh, that's just shiningly perfect. Rather like... have you ever noticed how long their hands stay together? Well past any point of bearing down. You tie it up right nicely, I loved this! :)

Anon

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[info]ghazalah
2004-02-24 07:49 am UTC (link)
His hand lingered on Jack's for a good long time. Just... resting there. Whether for his comfort, or Jack's, I don't know.


Needless to say, I had to be taken out by paramedics. ;-)

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 09:24 am UTC (link)
*sends Stephen to give you CPR, unless having his mouth on yours will only make matters worse*

*veg*

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[info]ghazalah
2004-02-24 10:28 am UTC (link)
Oh, send him along. I'll accept the dangers of the treatment as part of the cure. ;-)

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 09:23 am UTC (link)
Noticing that was what made me write the drabble. *g* Thank you so much!

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[info]ribby
2004-02-24 10:02 am UTC (link)
Mmmm... hands. Warm, strong, gentle hands. Yup. Hands that linger, even though they shouldn't. Sounds like the whole relationship, really.

*grin* Loved this.

*hugs you*

~Kris

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 12:23 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! I swear, that scene was a metaphor for the whole relationship. *smooches you, grabs you by the hands and hauls you into this fandom*

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[info]starfishchick
2004-02-24 12:30 pm UTC (link)
You know, I actually wrote something that started out quite similar to this on the commute to work this morning.

Mine is was all about how he didn't really need the extra hands, but how he'd be worse off without Jack's presence.

Sigh.

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 12:42 pm UTC (link)
Oh, post it! It's not like mine is such a ragingly original idea. *g*

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[info]starfishchick
2004-02-24 01:18 pm UTC (link)
It needs tweaking to get to 100 words, and I'm not entirely happy with it yet.

And now with your brilliance out there.... :)

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 03:57 pm UTC (link)
So turn it into a real story! *g*

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[info]starfishchick
2004-02-25 12:41 pm UTC (link)
A real story?

Eeep! *runs away clutching the notebook of pr0n*

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[info]dylant
2004-02-24 01:39 pm UTC (link)
ah! that scene! Stephen's thoughts!

lovely, lovely, and just a little angsty in the way Stephen won't admit these things to himself.

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-24 03:58 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! I think he probably admits things in the privacy of his thoughts, but only when he's delirious with pain or laudanum and not when he might slip up and tell Jack, heh.

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[info]ghazalah
2004-02-25 02:42 pm UTC (link)
Stephen can be astoundingly closed to Jack, but I think Jack knows his heart, despite Stephen's reserve.

Even in Mahon, when Jack comes to him in quite literal fulfillment of his dreams, he merely smiles. "He smiled to see Jack", then "he smiled over Jack's shoulder". But surely there could be no doubt in Jack's heart, as there is none in ours, concerning the deep well of love from which those smiles were drawn. They are gentle there, so gentle: and crowded around by hellish brutality.

Oh, Jack knows.

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-27 11:24 am UTC (link)
*happy sigh* You realize that you MUST use all that in a fic.

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[info]ghazalah
2004-02-27 11:28 am UTC (link)
Not I! I don't write. You and you plural must. :-)

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-02-27 11:29 am UTC (link)
Don't make me come over there and twist your arm. *g*

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[info]ghazalah
2004-02-27 11:29 am UTC (link)
Besides which, O'Brian already used it. ;-)

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