Comment on Closure

  1. daraoakwise Sun 06 Aug 2023 03:31AM UTC

    When I saw this prompt I wondered if you might go somewhere post-disappearance with it.

    Ship is missing a year but been declared missing for two hours, and Leonard McCoy shows up. I appreciate that it’s him, and that it doesn’t quite sit right. They feel like they should be close. There is a reason why we both love Scotty/Len as a self-indulgent ship. And there was a chance they could have been close, but enough goes wrong there, and that door closes.

    Adore this small look forward for the Corrigans. Aaron a nautical engineer. (Love it.) Allie in Maine with her kids, and Abby still there. (The entire lack of Corry is …. Yeah. Like I said, don’t tell me. But. Corry.)

    Leonard— I’m supposed to give the eulogy here but acknowledging that he doesn’t really know Scotty. Knowing that the cheer is so often an act. And Abby—I did know him. He wouldn’t want any of it.

    And the penlight and the compass, and answers enough for closure—in 74 years. Brilliant ending there, Steff, that was perfect.

    This one is everything that is entirely up my alley. Just hits and hurts perfectly. Fantastic, fantastic work. I’m reading it like, ten times tonight and tomorrow.

    Last Edited Sun 06 Aug 2023 03:32AM UTC

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    1. SLWalker Sun 06 Aug 2023 03:48AM UTC

      It seemed pretty intuitive. Though-- there are a hell of a lot of places I probably could have gone. <3 I think that after Spock, Len was the closest to actually seeing Scotty for real; I also think that there were enough mistakes that yeah, he never really got to know him the way he could have.

      Ha! You actually inspired Aaron's being a nautical engineer, what with you writing that bit about him being all super proud of his math exam. XD As to Cor-- like I'd said in the notes, I don't know if it's quite a spoiler? If only because I cannot imagine any reality where Corry would be on Earth and Scotty would even consider moving to some far flung retirement community on some distant would.

      Thank you. <3 Someday I get to write that closure. I can't say I'm looking forward to it, but I like that it sort of-- repairs the relationship between Len and Scotty and settles all scores that might have been between them.

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