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fkficfest stories released today is one that I wrote in response to the prompt "unexpected visitor." It's my fourth and final submission to the fest.
Told from Nick's point-of-view, the story picks up in the aftermath of "A More Permanent Hell" as the police department tries to keep on top of a massive influx of missing persons reports.
General audiences rating. Gen. Quite short. Mostly Nick, but there's some Schanke and Cohen in there as well.
Visiting Room C
I didn't expect to write something based on the "unexpected visitor" prompt. It just kind of happened. I had played with ideas for the prompt and sketched some things out, but everything I came up with seemed like it would be too long and involved to finish by the deadline, and I had more well-formed ideas for the other prompts. So I had not planned to do anything with this one.
Then, in early May, I was just minding my own business working on a different story when "Visiting Room C" popped into my brain from beginning to end. Took me only an hour to draft out an initial version because it was so short and I had it very clearly in my mind. Kinda bananas to be honest. The fic itself was an unexpected visitor in my head!
Though the fic is set in the aftermath of "A More Permanent Hell," it was ultimately a continuation of "A Fate Worse Than Death." I didn't tag that episode on AO3 though because I meant to keep the story's connection to the episode and the identities on the videotape vague (though there's probably just enough detail to put it together) until the very end.
"A Fate Worse Than Death" is one of my favorite episodes. Janette was about to turn Celeste into a vampire when she found out that it was Celeste, rather than her pimp, who had murdered another prostitute. Janette seemed furious and heartbroken by this revelation. She also appeared to have more ambivalent feelings about Celeste by the end, once she had cooled down. I was particularly intrigued when she told Nick, "I saw so much of myself in Celeste, a woman who destroys her friends as well as her enemies," and that she lamented the thought of Celeste in a prison both because of Janette's sense of justice (“her death would have been simpler”) and because Celeste would just be trapped and controlled yet again (when Nick says Celeste will still have a chance to start over, Janette asks, "How? When her life is ruled by someone else?")
In the story, the prison conditions during the scare made front page news. I think learning that would have stirred something up in Janette, and she would have gone down there. She covered her tracks well, but there was that tape.
Given the various feelings she seemed to have for Celeste in "A Fate Worse Than Death," what did Janette do when she went to that prison?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe she freed Celeste. Maybe she turned her. Maybe she killed her. All seem equally plausible to me. The fic's only function is to raise the question, not to answer it.
fkficfest stories released today is one that I wrote in response to the prompt "unexpected visitor." It's my fourth and final submission to the fest.Told from Nick's point-of-view, the story picks up in the aftermath of "A More Permanent Hell" as the police department tries to keep on top of a massive influx of missing persons reports.
General audiences rating. Gen. Quite short. Mostly Nick, but there's some Schanke and Cohen in there as well.
I didn't expect to write something based on the "unexpected visitor" prompt. It just kind of happened. I had played with ideas for the prompt and sketched some things out, but everything I came up with seemed like it would be too long and involved to finish by the deadline, and I had more well-formed ideas for the other prompts. So I had not planned to do anything with this one.
Then, in early May, I was just minding my own business working on a different story when "Visiting Room C" popped into my brain from beginning to end. Took me only an hour to draft out an initial version because it was so short and I had it very clearly in my mind. Kinda bananas to be honest. The fic itself was an unexpected visitor in my head!
Though the fic is set in the aftermath of "A More Permanent Hell," it was ultimately a continuation of "A Fate Worse Than Death." I didn't tag that episode on AO3 though because I meant to keep the story's connection to the episode and the identities on the videotape vague (though there's probably just enough detail to put it together) until the very end.
"A Fate Worse Than Death" is one of my favorite episodes. Janette was about to turn Celeste into a vampire when she found out that it was Celeste, rather than her pimp, who had murdered another prostitute. Janette seemed furious and heartbroken by this revelation. She also appeared to have more ambivalent feelings about Celeste by the end, once she had cooled down. I was particularly intrigued when she told Nick, "I saw so much of myself in Celeste, a woman who destroys her friends as well as her enemies," and that she lamented the thought of Celeste in a prison both because of Janette's sense of justice (“her death would have been simpler”) and because Celeste would just be trapped and controlled yet again (when Nick says Celeste will still have a chance to start over, Janette asks, "How? When her life is ruled by someone else?")
In the story, the prison conditions during the scare made front page news. I think learning that would have stirred something up in Janette, and she would have gone down there. She covered her tracks well, but there was that tape.
Given the various feelings she seemed to have for Celeste in "A Fate Worse Than Death," what did Janette do when she went to that prison?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe she freed Celeste. Maybe she turned her. Maybe she killed her. All seem equally plausible to me. The fic's only function is to raise the question, not to answer it.
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Date: 2024-06-08 07:12 pm (UTC)You were wise not to tag AFWTD. I was racking my brain trying to figure it out while I was reading. I had guessed that the visitor was Lacroix, but I couldn't figure out which woman he would be looking to pay a visit to.
I also wonder what Celeste remembers? I'm thinking she recognizes Janette as the club owner, but still has no recollection of the vampire stuff. I can't see Janette going to all that trouble, and some risk, to release Celeste as a mortal. I have to admit I am still torn between the other two options.
In spite of her comments in I Will Repay, I do think Janette has and can bring people across should she choose to. I just think she would be too concerned with the behavior Celeste might exhibit should she be brought across.
Interesting puzzle.
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Date: 2024-06-08 11:59 pm (UTC)Hard to know what Janette would do when human justice proved to be BS. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Nick finally connects with her!