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Bitter Endings, Sweet Beginnings: Part Two
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“It was more like a bad museum,” said Jenny wisely. “With creepy puppet employees.”
“Are you guys still talking about that Bagpipe ***** show?” said Alice wryly, plunking down into the seat next to Helena and handing her another beer. “I thought you’d be done analyzing that junk by the time I fetched,” Alice air quoted the word and grinned at Helena, lightly bumping their shoulders on doing so, “her Britishness another beer.”
“Bagpuss!” Jenny and Helena said the show’s name with an odd amount of outrage considering that they both admittedly found it creepy.
“Right, right,” chuckled Alice, drinking her beer and eyeing them with an entirely pleased expression. “As if that’s not nastier sounding.”
“She’s correct, you realize,” mused Helena, looking to Jenny. “The actual show name is far more perverted in enunciation than what she just said in terms of a purposeful mistake.”
“It was creepy,” stated Jenny solemnly, drinking her beer again.
“The show’s starting!” Alice declared gleefully, twisting around in her seat and grinning as the lights went up and the chords to the first song began. The crowd burst into cheers and Alice turned to Helena with a grin and leaned close so she could hear her through the applause, “I think you’ll like this cover.”
“He went away and you hung around and bothered me every night,” the lead singer drawled softly as she smiled into the microphone at the cheers this lyric produced. “And when I wouldn’t go out with you, you said things that weren’t very nice.”
Watching Alice as the blonde happily sang along looking enraptured with the band’s performance, her brown eyes sparkling in excitement, Helena decided that she did like the cover very much but not for the reasons Alice supposed. She liked it more for the joy the blonde was obviously drawing from it and the simple pleasure a song could create for her. It was something that Helena had wanted to achieve for herself over countless years but never quite managed to achieve. But maybe now she could, Helena thought, returning Alice’s grin and finding herself singing the lyrics with the blonde when prompted by a poke to her side. Finding herself immediately swept up by the fun of it all, lacking her usual self conscious worries and fears that her mother had drilled into her when Alice put an affectionate arm around her shoulders and hugged her close as they continued to sing along.
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so ok – you were totally right – i loved dana’s pov and it totally makes sense and you just rock for the way you make me still love her even though she broke Alice’s heart.
And again, you were right, Jenny is the perfect friend for Alice and Helena and her ‘weirdness’ fits perfectly and is something endearing in this, not off putting as it is on the show.
And finally – the comfort that alice and helena find in their shared experiences, insecurities and needs was just perfect! Loved it – but then again, knew I would! Great job!!!
Bagpuss Rocks I and my friends were bought up on him. Best British kids tv show ever!! Bring bagpuss to the world!
Hey now… lol. I’ve got nothing against Bagpuss! The show was cool but I’m mildly freaked out by it. Then again, I’m mildly freaked out by lawn gnomes too. Brrr. Lawn gnomes. Anyway, Helena and Jenny like Bagpuss. They just find it somewhat disturbing, much like me. =P
You’re good.. you’re good. You actually MAKE me like Helena… ;)
Positively loving this, anyone who takes the time to properly write Helena *and* who writes her so damn well gets heaps of gold stars in my book. =) And I’m even picking up on the joys of Helacious =D Squeee
This is great! It’s nice seeing Helena portrayed as someone who does actually have a good side! I’m enjoying it very muchly
Thank You! For reasons in no particular order:
1. For writing Jenny in a way that isn’t about her “bad” weirdss. For actually writing her as someone who underneath all the complexities i still someone who can be kind, and defintely someone can see Alice having a friendsip with.
2. For Dana’s pov–I danish shipper at heart and will be, damn all season 3 spoilers and what not, and even though this is helacious story at heart, there are still those undercurrents of Danish, which will always be true for me, no matter what happens with them.
3. For writing helacious in such a way that even I, as a self proclaimed Danisher, can enjoy and even root for. I can only hope (perhaps foolishly)that the writers of TLW will do as much justice.
You are by far my favorite Fan Fic writer on this board–effortlessly weaving stories together that explore connection, love and all the good stuff in between.
I loved this and I’m a little upset that you got four stars considering some of the crap on this board that gets five stars. Dumb fuckers.
Anyway. I already told you what I liked, but I think my favourite parts were getting into Helena’s background and in her head, particularly with her father and the issues she has with her mother and the thing about her running. Ha! I always got lost running cross-country and as I told you, getting lost 13 times is nothing to me because I got lost a lot more times than that. People totally do get lost! And how cute was it that Helena was all fixated and upset that she placed fourth after going a mile and half out of her way? Priceless and so her because she would totally demand so much of herself even at age 15.
And ohh, that last part with the phone call and the dinner arrangements and everything? God.
You’re killing me with Helacious cuteness!
great as always
Not content with making us love Helacious, now you’re going to make me like Jenny! This is a great chapter. The insight into Dana: the scene where she watched Alice in the Planet was just painful. I loved the scene at the end when Alice called Helena. Great mix of tension and humour. And, finally, speaking as someone from the UK: don’t knock Bagpuss! (OK, it was weird, what can I say).