Hey, all!
I've been gone for a while and here's the result. I finally got around to finishing that Piper + Meredith epilogue of mine and I've named it "Those Who Walk With Ghosts". Kind of a creepy title but sue me, I've been listening to the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack all week (Angels Thanatos is all shades of amazing by the way). Read and tell me what you think, if you'd like.
http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600099796
Enjoy! I hope! :)
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Let's see... Yes I did indeed read the Piper + Meredith story and loved it, despite how aggravating certain characters could be. However, teens are fickle afterall. It just didn't sit well with me just how, changeable Piper appeared to be. A sort of force that few could still it seemed.
First she pressures the older woman to confront her more than motherly feelings for her, drags along another when dancing around the issue and the decides,, 'Well I can't deal with this I'l just bugger off to some other part of the country.' Does the girl have no sense of responsibility or logic?! *shakes fist at Piper*
Though despite a few annoying characters I did enjoy this little add-on to the original story. It's nice to see just what happened and how they'd deal with all the things surrounding them. I also liked seeing Merry's point of view on everything.
After reading the Piper+Meredith stories, I must say this epilogue was somewhat upsetting. Granted, everything in life can't be perfect, but for how much emotion Piper gave in the previous stories, it makes her seem so unstable. I enjoy when there is drama in stories but this ending is too odd for me.
I do hope you continue to write, I really enjoy reading these :) Not to mention I feel as those I'm reading my own life story (somewhat) when I read this series. Maybe that's another reason I was so upset with the ending haha.
Melody
Thanks for your commentary, first of all, I really appreciate it. To answer your concerns, I honestly don't think Piper was being changeable; I see her more as being a normal idealistic teen who overestimated her ability to handle an adult relationship.
Bear in mind, this epilogue takes place six months after she and Merry finally make it happen so it's not like she didn't *try*, she just didn't have the chops to make it work. And it might be just me but I don't blame her for that. Piper's an intelligent upper middle class kid with her whole life ahead of her while on the flip side Meredith's a grown woman who fought her battles and is pretty much comfortable where she is in life right now.
I think the one thing Piper did that was a 'lil bit selfish was hide the fact that she wanted to bail, but that's the kind of girl I designed Piper to be, avoiding tough choices until it's too hard not to. I can see how that might be frustrating though. ^_^
Margot
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the epilogue as much, but as I said to Melody, I don't interpret Piper's actions as uneven. They're in step with the way Piper generally handles conflict. It's as simple as this. The relationship was too hard for Piper to sustain. All of it got to be too much. Sleeping with her dead Dad's wife, losing Zack and having less contact with Ashley (her two emotional sounding boards), having to lie about and hide her feelings for Merry, not to mention being gay on top of it all....
...I think that's a LOT of stress for a seventeen-year-old girl who has a habit of waffling over her problems. It's not that she suddenly stopped loving Meredith or anything, it's just that she couldn't cope with the stress.
And, yeah, it's a little selfish to just bail on Merry after chasing her so hard; but isn't that how life always plays out? Us all chasing after something and getting it only to realize that we couldn't really handle it?
I'd like to think that that's crux of all age-gap romances. Can the younger half honestly deal with the weight of such a stressful relationship? In this case the answer is no.
Sucks, huh? :)
What a surprise! I never thought of this ending... Well it s always a pleasure to read your work -)
Yeah it sucks, but not near as much as it would have had they never given it a shot. I absolutely see Piper's reaction as being consistent with who you've developed her to be, even if the end result is frustrating and heart-wrenching.
Also, I appreciate the way that the sex in the story, while appealing to prurient appetite, is shown in such a way as to indicate that the relationship as a whole was unhealthy. Piper going back to her usual habit of clamming up was one problem. Meredith trying to kiss the secrets out of her was another problem.
Yes, life is like that. And then you move on. Any possibility of a story that shows what Meredith moves on to?
Why? I dont want them to break up! Sigh* I guess that's just life... Hey could you at least write another story with Piper in it?
You know, like years later or something because with the um... guessing that she doesnt like.. wanna sing anymore after her break up and everything with Merry, she got a feeling to want to sing again and stuff... then she hears about this mysterious new college which specializes in talents like that. And when she got there it was rainy and she got lost and turned up in a small park,with trees and leaves, and she accidentally slipped on a puddle. and blacksout for a while. When she came to, she was staring at a person who she knew but was younger and the park turned into a small forest instead but the college still intact... like that you know...
Ah sorry about that, never mind, i've been blabbering hahaha. But can you just Please Get Them Back Together!
I dont like sad endings...
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