Gena/Finn (15 page)
Authors: Kat Helgeson
Tell me. |
from: Genevieve Goldman
to: Zack Martocchio
date: Thursday, July 17 3:51 PM
subject: :p
that i could act every once in a while without being an ACTOR. like there'd somehow be a way for me to go back and do something without looking like some desperate washed-up child star. sometimes i have to fight the urge to audition for a fucking paper towel commercial or go play a baby-murderer in a law and order episode. |
i want to show everyone that i can do it without going crazy and pulling fire alarms or whatever. |
really i wish i'd done the fucking reunion show. |
from: Genevieve Goldman
to: Finn Bartlett
date: Thursday, July 17 3:59 PM
subject: FW: :p
This might be the most horrible suggestion in the world, and I would understand if you wanted to get on a plane and come punch me, but...fuck it, you know? |
from: Zack Martocchio
to: Genevieve Goldman
date: Thursday, July 17 3:58 PM
subject: RE: :p
How about just one episode? |
Back From the Dead
(with fic!)
Jesus mephitis mephitis that was a long absence. SORRY INTERNET. I'm alive. Hopefully I've not been forgotten?
I'm off to college in a few weeks, and I have some other stuff going on out in meatspace as well, but my big news of the summer was that I got to go to Chicago Con!! It was phenomenal beyond all reason. The boys were as charming and eloquent as always and the writers got me so fucking excited about next season.
EXCITED ENOUGH TO WRITE A FANTASY SEASON 4 PREMIERE FIC, you may ask?
YES, I may answer! At least a smidgen of one. So YES, I may WHISPER.
Title:
Marzipan and Metal Cans
Author:
_EvenIf
Word Count:
463
Summary:
Remember that one time we got to see them shop for supplies? That was nice. Let's do that again.
Pairing:
none, you know what journal you're on.
Disclaimer:
I own nothing besides my little conference badge.
Author's Note:
Go easy on me, it's been a tough couple of weeks. Almost out of here. Eve to College, come in, College. College, do you read me?
Jake's on his hands and knees like a damn child, half of him sticking out of a box like it's fucking Christmas morning and Tyler bought him a Red Rider BB gun. “There's nothing in here.”
“Well there's about eight hundred things out here, so stop embarrassing us.” Tyler picks up a decimated flare gun from the 80% OFF table. What the hell were normal people doing with this flare gun? He's struck again by the fact that he has virtually no idea what normal people do. It's been too long.
Jake emerges with a streak of dust on his cheek and something tiny raised triumphantly over his head.
“The hell is that?”
“Tonka truck.”
“You're shitting me.”
Jake throws it at him. “Zippo.”
“Oh, man.” Tyler flicks the wheel with his thumb, watches the flame glow, disappear, glow again.
“My dad had one just like that,” Jake says, like it's nothing, like it's no big deal.
Tyler waits for him because maybe this time he'll really talk about what happened the night Alan Henry sunk under the water and never came back. But Jake doesn't say anything more. So Tyler says, “You think we could rehabilitate this thing?”
“Why?”
For setting baddies on fire, numbskull. “For waking you up when you're snoring. KaPOW.”
“You're never gonna let that go, are you? I was
sick
. It was either snore or suffocate.”
“And you chose the one that keeps you around to piss me off for the rest of my life.”
“You're so full of shit.”
“Most days.” He grabs Jake by the shoulder and pulls him off the ground. “You want to hit on the housewife while we're here?”
Jake cranes his neck around Tyler's shoulder to check out the harried little blonde restocking the table. Yeah, Tyler knows his type. “Yes.”
“Get on it, kiddo. I'm gonna check out the bullet situation.”
“Oh yeah, I'm sure there's a ton on sale here.”
“Need a new jacket?”
“Yes please.”
“I'll grab one.”
Jake goes over to embarrass himself hitting on a woman in front of her husband (Tyler needed to torture him a bit; it was getting a little sentimental back there) and Tyler leafs through the hunting jackets that will probably never see the outside of an RV. He plays with the lighter while he works, rubbing the wheel back and forth and turning it over and over in his hand.
It's during one of those turns that he sees the initials carved roughly into the bottom, by someone dumb and reckless enough to risk breaking a knife getting them in there (someone dumb and reckless enough to drown while his baby watched).
A. H.
Tyler swallows, slips the lighter into his pocket, and watches Jake be happy, for a little while.
24 Comments
BlossomButtercup
He totally didn't pay for that lighter! Awesome job. :)
_EvenIf
That scoundrel!
SwingLowMySweet
Oh my God I need this like blood. I'm glad to hear SOMEONE hasn't forgotten we still need Jake's dad resolved *glares at writers*
_EvenIf
gaaaah I know it kills me.
SwingLowMySweet
It was one of my favorite mysteries of s1, what the hell he was looking for under the water, if he had any idea how risky it would be, if he even KNEW THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SEA MONSTER, I mean, it seems like he MUST have, right?
_EvenIf
I have no idea. as much as I don't want to believe he'd take that risk with Jake RIGHT THERE, he was so committed to proving monsters weren't real...
SwingLowMySweet
Oh poor guy. No idea he was on a TV show.
_EvenIf
People really need to consider that more often.
CalmMyLightsaber
Was Tyler trying to burn himself??
_EvenIf
oh who knows with that boy.
CalmMyLightsaber
oh and I loved this
_EvenIf
thank you!!
finnblueline
You're pretty.
_EvenIf
your FACE is pretty.
slotohes
oh my god I so hope this happens
_EvenIf
me tooo (obviously) but I should really know better than to get my hopes up at this point. But the stuff they said at the con made me uncomfortably hopeful that we're in for a good season...
finnblueline
Oh and fyi the reason you're pretty is because you mentioned when Jake was sick.
_EvenIf
NEVER FORGET
SwingLowMySweet
You guys are crazy.
_EvenIf
you love it like candy.
TylerGirl93
This is seriously all you have to say?
finnblueline
lol.
Percymaxon
love this!!
_EvenIf
thank you!
All right.
I'm gonna start with the season 3 finale, even though I know I'm a couple weeks late (sorry, sorry!) and it's been hashed to death by now. You know me. I have to have my say.
Guys, that was
amazing
!
That final scene in the warehouse. My GOD. I really didn't think Jake was going to make it out this time! What's happening to me?! Someone says that every week and I always give them a hard time, but I swear, I was
pulling up tufts of carpet
I was so tense. HOLY SHIT. And then Tyler kicked the door in and just...the
feelings
, you guys, the
feelings
.
So season 4 is set up really well, I think, given Evanson's
double-cross (which I don't buy for a fucking second, come
on, it's EVANSON, there's got to be something behind it) and
I can't wait to see where they're taking it.
And I love Jake, but we knew that.
Okay, in other, bigger news...
CHICAGO CON. Whoa. I had no idea it would be so awesome. Zack and Toby are so funny together. I love how close they are in real life. It's like they actually have that whole history together. Which I guess in a way they do. Plus, getting to meet and bond with people I've already gotten to know online was cool, and I'm happy to report that none of you are old-school internet creeps.
So, the moral of this post is, get yourself to a con AQAP, and in the meantime, watch the S3 finale often and GET EXCITED for October. We're in for a hell of a premiere!
And this isn't exactly public knowledge yet, but I just got an insider tip (lol, I'm an insider!) about a guest star you guys won't believe.
Here's a scan of my drawing (signed by Zack!)
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>>>>Tylergirl93 reblogged this and added: When at con did any bonding happen? You were hiding out in your room the whole time.
>>>>finnblueline: HANGING out in my room. Important distinction
>>>>_EvenIf: :D
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>>>>slotohes reblogged this from DanniRice
>>>>_EvenIf reblogged this and added: LOLOL BEST EVER.
from: Genevieve Goldman
to: Finn Bartlett
date: Friday, August 8 10:10 PM
subject: nerd
haha your journal. “guest star you guys won't believe"? They're going to be thinking it's Demi Lovato or something. No one gives a shit about seeing me on the show, weirdo. |
from: Finn Bartlett
to: Genevieve Goldman
date: Friday, August 8 7:24 PM
subject: NERD!
MY BEST FRIEND'S GOING TO BE ON UP BELOW AAAAAAHHHH! |
p.s. Who the fuck is Demi Lovato? |
from: Jean Parker
to: Finn Bartlett
date: Saturday, August 9 2:02 PM
subject: Offer of employment
Ms. Bartlett, |
After reviewing your application, we are pleased to offer you the position of data entry technician with Windsor Publishing House. Please call 800-555-2385 and ask for Jean Parker to discuss the terms of employment and arrange your start date. We look forward to you joining our staff! |
Text with Charlie (Deleted)
holy shit I
Text with Evie
holy shit I just got a job offer
Aug 9, 2:12 pm
just saw this. omg. tell.
data entry thing, no big deal,
but SALARY AND BENEFITS
paying my share of the rent
plane ticket to RI? lol
don't even joke that would
be amazing
Aug 9, 2:20
what did charlie say!
haven't told him
why?
it's stupid
no, why?
it's gonna bring up the
marriage thing again
we agreed to table it
while we were poor
fuck
yeah
you have to tell him
Aug 9, 2:28 pm
yeah
from: Finn Bartlett
to: Genevieve Goldman
date: Monday, August 11 8:40 PM
subject: Charlie issues
Hey, kid. |
Thanks for the flowers. |
And, holy fuck. I'm in trouble. |
I was at my old job (in fact, I was handing in my notice, and let me tell you, nothing has ever felt as good) when the delivery came. Charlie was home and signed for it. At first I think he thought I had a secret admirer or something like that, because he opened it and read the card and now he's all pissed because I didn't tell him about the job. |
And because I told you. |
He's never been the jealous type, but we haven't been talking much lately, partly because every time we do he makes some crack about fandom. Like, |
Ugh, I miss Con, you know? I miss being around people who get it. The fucking depth of feeling that comes from a show like this. The attachment to the characters. |
And this is me, you know? |
I think Charlie thinks I don't want to get married because my heart's too wrapped up in this show. |
Do you think that's true? |
That's not true. I love him. I just don't know if he knows me. I don't know if I know me. Holy shit, I'm a mess right now, and the only person who fucking knows me is this eighteen year old girl on the other side of the country and I fucking miss you so much tonight, Evie, shit. |
This should in no way be interpreted as your fault. I should have told Charlie about the job DAYS ago, and if I don't want to marry him I should have the decency to tell him that. |
I don't know anything about anything anymore, and if you didn't read this, I wouldn't blame you. |
Seriously. Thank you for the flowers. So much. |
Thank you for everything. |
Love. |