Inevitable 15 update

[mhalachai]

So, it's up. Chapter fifteen of Inevitable: Like a Rugged Island Without a Shore is up.

The title is from a quote by Nicholas Boileau: "Honor is like a rugged island withouth a rugged shore: once you have left it, you can never return.

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Comments

[semirose.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Anita dealing with the after affects, how...well, I thought it was very well done, very perfect Anita. Catching her inability to deal with things that happen to herself perfectly.

Okay, I thought everyone's reactions were great, but most likely when I reread this fic (and I will, after all, I've already reread it at least twice), I'll probably just skim over this chapter, cause as good as everything is, I just can't stand it. No, I can't stand Anita when she's...well really I just can't stand Anita, and that's why the only contact I have with Anita Blake fics is x-overs. So really it's just my personal feelings on the character that keep me from not loving the chapter.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I thought it was very well done, very perfect Anita.
Thanks :)

I'll probably just skim over this chapter

Tell you a secret? I probably will too, but because I find it hard to read. Emotionally draining etc.

So if Anita's not your fave, who's your fave AB-verse character?

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Mmm, so perfectly Anita, so perfectly screwed up :)
Fear, paranoia, a little bit of shock distancing her thoughts...difficult to pull off the aftermath of severe trauma, but you did it. Very well-written!

[mafan.livejournal.com]

"Mmm, so perfectly Anita, so perfectly screwed up :)"
-So true!
-You have written all of AB spot on and HP fabulously.

I meant to review a couple weeks back when I first read Inevitable but my mind has been pretty much turned to mush and made me a crazy AB/HP addict. The storm has calmed down enough for me to leave the two sentences above. I can't rave enough how much I love your story and that sometimes I forget its not written by LKH herself...but better...It was written and created by someone as brilliant as you. I bow down.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for your kind words. I'm quite enjoying writing this story, with my two favourite fandoms smushed together :)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've gotten a few comments about from people who don't think Anita would react that way, but the way I view the curse, it's torture. Huh.

Don't mind me, I'm still riding off the last confusing review.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Would Anita in her right mind act like this? Think her boys were out to blame her, hurt her, for what Bellatrix did?
No.
But is Anita in her right mind at the moment?
No.

I agree with you, and we've already seen that prolonged exposure to the Cruciatus curse can leave you broken, insane. Poor Neville's parents :(... Maybe Harry could bring them up at a later date? (though I guess he'd find it difficult to talk about that scene in St Mungo's to strangers)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

But is Anita in her right mind at the moment?
No.

Good, I'm glad that made it across. It made sense to me, as an HP fan, that the curse is not of the good in making for mental stability.

Neville's parents...

All in good time. All in good time...

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

What did I do when I got into work this morning? REad the chapter of course!

So, my thoughts:

Anita's reactions are very well played in regards to the crucio aftermath. You could feel her confusion, her inability to really comprehend what she was going through, and why. She was so worried about other people-classic Anita- that she refused to be concerned about herself. And the guilt? By heavens, very well done.

Though that speech she gave to Richard about getting over it? She so needs to hear that for herself.

One thing that I'm going to chalk up to Anita's post-traumatic reaction is her fear that JC would hit her. As far as I can recall, he never offered her violence, not even when they weren't together. It startled me as a reader that Anita was expecting to be smacked around by both JC and Richard. I'm going to chalk it up to crucio influence and leave it at that.

All in all, nicely done.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It startled me as a reader that Anita was expecting to be smacked around by both JC and Richard.

Good. My point has been made, then. Thing is, we can't know how the curse affected Anita. By her thinking, even for a second, that either of them (hell, any of her four men) would be angry at her for the curse, we start to see that she's really, really fucked up.

Which she is. But she's a highly functional fucked up girl, so the repercussions will not be immediately obvious.

Thanks for your comments, and I hope your data behave today.

[mefeather.livejournal.com]

When I do have the time someday soon I will most definitely review each chapter separately. But for now let me just tell you that I am utterly pleased that beren_writes added your master-list of HP/AB fics in one of her posts. Otherwise I would never ever have read your Inevitable and that would mean I would never have read that wonderful, awesome, amazing, beautiful fic! I read it last week and so I was pleasantly surprised that I already could read chapter 15 as well :D
Thank you for that!
Ok, so not a review like the others gave you. I hope you don't mind me just telling you how I loved to read your fic. Because it's kind off late over here and I really should get to bed. So my thoughts are all scrambled inside my head and I can't make them obey me and form into a lovely coherent review *sighs*

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

*g* Your post totally made my day. Thanks so much!

I'm always will to talk about my fics, so feel free to say/ask anything. I'm working on the next chapter of IN now, so I'm still in the groove :)

[mefeather.livejournal.com]

*smiles*

Glad it was appreciated.

Ok! I will do that. Can't think of anything at the moment. Except that I think I will re-read your fic this week or next week if I can't find the time. Just to have enough fuel to make all the chapter reviews I promised you. And believe me, you will. Ask beren_writes she got her portion of chapter reviews yesterday for Black Magic. :D

[mefeather.livejournal.com]

Great, I forgot to tell you I just added you as my friend because I really want to know first hand when you update your fic :D

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

And you're friended back (so you can get the ocassional preview of fics :)