Fic for the Shuffle Challenge

[failegaidin]

Okay, so I took a challenge upon myself that turned out to be pretty fun. I put my iTunes on shuffle (okay, My Top Rated playlist, at least), and wrote a fic for the first ten songs that played (minus one, oops). I could only write for the duration of the song, so that was a little difficult. I'm going to post these in separate posts, because I don't have the energy to put in so many fake cuts in one post. I hope you enjoy them. Here's the first one.


ALL ARE FOR FLACK/STELLA, CSI: NY.

 Not Ready To Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks

 

The one thing she had never admitted to anyone – not even to Mac – was how angry she was at being an orphan. No one knew, for instance, that her father had tried to get in touch with her two years ago. He had sent her a letter, explaining to her all the reasons he had for giving her up. There was a desperate tone to his words, and by the end of it, he was practically begging her to let him back into her life.

 

            She never responded. She knew she should have. She knew that she should have at least sent him a letter back telling him that she wasn’t ready. But instead she just threw the letter in the back of a drawer and walked away from it. She never said a word about it.

 

            Until the day she found out that he was dead. A tiny obituary in the middle of the paper, and her entire world crumbled. Flack saw her hands shake, the way her face turned ashen, and he was there in an instant. He didn’t need to know what had happened – he just knew that she needed someone to catch her.

 

            And then she finally told him – how she had had the chance to make nice, but how she couldn’t bring herself to do it. In between sobs and desperate cries, the whole story came out. And Flack just held her, silently absolving her of all her guilt.

 

 

           

Comments

[rorylie.livejournal.com]

This is incredible.

[failegaidin.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I decided the only way to work with this song was Daddy issues.

[citymusings.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad you're doing this. I love this one. It's amazing! Would probably also explain why I suddenly have 12 new chapter alerts in my NY fic email folder. ;)

[failegaidin.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it - and yeah, lots of email notifications :D

[sej-1986.livejournal.com]

I don't know the song but this is an amazing idea! I think that was part of the challenge, though, to only write while the song was playing. This one's so sad!

[moonshinefaerie.livejournal.com]

Y'know, this is a good idea. Now if I only could think of a pairing to do this too. SO. MANY. SHIPS. ARGH.

[failegaidin.livejournal.com]

You could always do multiple ships :)