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You (Part the Second)
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Alice took a shaky breath. “Yeah, I’m okay. Well, I guess I am. I mean, it’s not exactly easy to be here, Dana. I can’t even begin to apologize for all the shit I’ve been doing lately. I just…I don’t know, I’m really trying to get over it, but it just hurts so much.”
There were a million things Dana wanted to say, but none of them seemed right. How the hell do you apologize for breaking someone’s heart? She decided to just let Alice continue on her own terms, whatever those happened to be. Dana knew it was going to hurt like hell to hear about the pain she’d put Alice through, but she couldn’t help but think that it’d do Alice a lot of good to get it out there.
Not getting a response to her previous statement, Alice looked over at Dana and was floored by the guilt on the other woman’s face. She felt a little bit satisfied, although feeling that way made her feel more horrible than anything else. She didn’t want Dana to be miserable. Hell, she was miserable and she wouldn’t wish feeling like this on her worst enemy. “Hey, you know, it’s not like this is your fault, Dane. I mean, yeah, you left me for Lara but I’m the one…” She was about to go into a big thing about how her reactions were her own fault when Dana leaned over and put a hand over her mouth, effectively stopping whatever she’d been going to say.
“No, Alice,” she said, as gently as she could while still being firm. “I didn’t leave you for Lara, that’s just what you’ve been telling everyone, including the huge amount of people who listen to KCRW.” Alice’s eyes widened at this, and Dana moved her hand, suddenly realizing that Alice had stopped breathing.
“Huh? Yeah you did, Dana. You said you needed closure with her…” Alice trailed off, trying to remember exactly what had been said and not having much success. The tears started again as she tried in vain to get a grip on herself and what had happened.
Dana shook her head. “Yeah, I did say that, Al…but I said it three months after we broke up. Don’t you remember that?” She asked it as softly and gently as she could, taking Alice’s hand and running her thumb across the palm as she’d done so many times before, trying to comfort as best she could. Alice’s confusion was palpable, and Dana realized that the accusations on the radio had been Alice’s honest interpretation of what had happened. For months, Dana had thought they were just a vengeance tactic, but she could see plain as day that Alice really thought she’d been left for someone else. No wonder her heart had broken. And all this time, Dana’d been taking it personally, refusing to talk to Alice because she felt betrayed. The irony of that didn’t escape her, and Dana suddenly felt like the biggest asshole on earth for not realizing sooner just how much damage the pills had done.
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This is so much more real than what IC told us I hope she is reading as well. You lived up to your talent without a doubt. I love what you are doing with this story and will continue. Maybe even keep Dana alive because that’s what all us Danish readers want. Anyway please keep writing! You made my day a little better.
Great job! I really enjoyed it. This is a much more believable direction that Danish is taking. It’s good to see them talking it out. In my opinion, they need each other. Keep up the great writing. I can’t wait to read more.
I love the direction your heading with this story,excellent update!! Your doing one hell of a job muted,PPS
Ok, totally love this story. If only IC could have written something so great… and Danishy believable. This is so much easier to grasp than the shit IC put our girls through. Please update again soon, because I am really enjoying this story, even though this was only the second chapter! :-)
Even thought it’s breaking my heart that they did break up and Dana did go back with Lara — an Alice turned to the pills, so far you’re doing it in a way that at least has a direct relationship to the characters as we know and love them. Although I gotta say the above things were also three of the top four reasons (and that’s jus the Danish!) S3 is just to painful to think about, so I hope you’re gonna fix it, otherwise I just might need Alice’s meds all over again. Really looking forward to your next update.
Just got caught up with this fic, excellent job, Muted, it’s like the lost scenes we’ve needed. Yay! Danish friendship is not dead, and having this on the real show would have answered so many “WTF?”-type questions of how things played out on-screen. Is Dana going to let Lara know about her reconciliation of sorts with Alice? I like that you don’t have D and A just jumping to getting back together, but rather, talking about misunderstandings and…moving on (in whatever way/s you’re taking them…?). Can’t wait to keep reading the next updates, please post soon!
I like that you are allowing them to slowly heal. Dana’s illness will probably crop up soon, but I hope you give Alice some time to get stronger. In an out of character move for myself, I hope they don’t get together any time soon. I really like your story.
Why oh why couldn’t it have happened like this? Great post, pps :)