Given my Ooh! Ooh! Oooh! -ing at this installment, I must have sounded like a deranged chimp. :(
Oh, Martin, Martin, sweetheart, you think you're not strong - but you have a core of steel and those of us who know you are just *waiting* for the needle to hit "pissed off". :D (I'm sort of hoping that the whole, Gordon going to the police *after* he thinks Martin is dead, not when Martin was kidnapped, thing might just do it.) Your determination, Carolyn's ferociousness, Douglas's scheming and Arthur's helping will soon have this mess sorted out and Gordon getting his just deserts. :D
Can I just tell you I ADORE your handling of viewpoint? The things Martin and Douglas *aren't* noticing about each other - like Mr Suave and Cool being willing to be vulnerable and open with Martin (and Martin not really seeing that ) and Martin's shame and awkwardness and disappointment and "we might have become friends" and just... Ooooh! :D And Martin not really noticing what he's starting to feel for Douglas (maybe Gordon going after "the kidnapper" might bring a certain clarity?) and being too proud to accept the comfort he needs.
And Gordon not having the slightest suspicion of "Stupid" Arthur. :D You have to love Arthur
The layers this gives to a reader. :D
Oh and the sheer *domesticity* - off to the loo, do I want a shower, I guess I'd better make breakfast. LOL. I've felt less at ease in friends' houses than Martin is at home chez Douglas. Love this so much. <3
Gordon is a rat (from Ballarat?) and it's nice to be abe to hate him - every fairy tale needs a good, old-fashioned villain. Douglas isn't Snow White (he drifted...) but compared to Gordon he is Prince Charming. ... And now I have Adam Ant on the brain....
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Date: 2013-09-16 12:26 pm (UTC)Oh, Martin, Martin, sweetheart, you think you're not strong - but you have a core of steel and those of us who know you are just *waiting* for the needle to hit "pissed off". :D (I'm sort of hoping that the whole, Gordon going to the police *after* he thinks Martin is dead, not when Martin was kidnapped, thing might just do it.) Your determination, Carolyn's ferociousness, Douglas's scheming and Arthur's helping will soon have this mess sorted out and Gordon getting his just deserts. :D
Can I just tell you I ADORE your handling of viewpoint? The things Martin and Douglas *aren't* noticing about each other - like Mr Suave and Cool being willing to be vulnerable and open with Martin (and Martin not really seeing that ) and Martin's shame and awkwardness and disappointment and "we might have become friends" and just... Ooooh! :D And Martin not really noticing what he's starting to feel for Douglas (maybe Gordon going after "the kidnapper" might bring a certain clarity?) and being too proud to accept the comfort he needs.
And Gordon not having the slightest suspicion of "Stupid" Arthur. :D You have to love Arthur
The layers this gives to a reader. :D
Oh and the sheer *domesticity* - off to the loo, do I want a shower, I guess I'd better make breakfast. LOL. I've felt less at ease in friends' houses than Martin is at home chez Douglas. Love this so much. <3
Gordon is a rat (from Ballarat?) and it's nice to be abe to hate him - every fairy tale needs a good, old-fashioned villain. Douglas isn't Snow White (he drifted...) but compared to Gordon he is Prince Charming. ... And now I have Adam Ant on the brain....