Generation Kill PTSD babyfic coda: The Frame You Made (complete!)

[dira]

All done, omg! :D :D :D


The Frame You Made (24582 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Generation Kill
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, Brad Colbert/Nate Fick/Original Female Character
Characters: Nate Fick, Brad Colbert, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Future Fic, Curtain Fic
Summary:

Six further epilogues for Don't You Shake Alone, 2004-2011.

Also, with this story finished, I have written (slightly) more words in Generation Kill than my total from Due South (338,739 versus 337,957), in exactly half the number of stories (28 versus 56). o.O

Comments

[synecdochic]

Oh, man, this is COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY AWESOME AND AMAZING. *draws hearts* So glad I've kept it open in a tab (...for a month, sigh, go me) That last section is just heart-meltingly sweet.

Although, one small detail: by the time the DADT repeal went into effect, same-sex marriage had already been legal in DC for like a year and a half. I know this because as soon as DC legalized, my now-wife and I looked at each other and said "...okay, that takes away our last excuse, dammit," and our wedding date was May of 2010.

(Long story short(er): we live in MD, she works for a county government, and sometime in 2008/2009 our state attorney general issued an opinion saying that in his reading of the law, out-of-state same-sex marriages should be recognized by MD -- the subtext there, if you read it really carefully, was him asking for a test case. So we thought, hey, we're mediagenic enough that our story would be a really good one, let's go get gay married in another state and then come back and file suit against her employer to force them to recognize me as her spouse for benefits purposs, and then we kept getting distracted with other shit. Then DC legalized and it went into effect on March 3, 2010, we went down to fill out the paperwork like a week later and the first available slot for a courthouse wedding was ALREADY into May, we got distracted by buying a house, and then by the time we were like OKAY WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS THING, Question 6 to legalize same-sex marriage in MD was projected to be on the ballot in the 2012 election and we figured, okay, let's wait and see. And MD passed it! So we woke up on January 1 2013 and were married for realz in MD. And then there was US v Windsor and all of a sudden we were married everywhere. It was kind of awesome -- we got married three times without having to do anything and I'd been making my estimated tax payments for 2013 assuming I'd be filing federally as single again and wound up getting a giant fucking wodge of cash back from the Feds.)

ANYWAY. I am just nitpicking there, and honestly, it's funnier the way you have it with Brad bemoaning his poor impressionable daughter around all those Marines. (I get the feeling DC is already impressioned, however.)

[dira]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed this! And ahahaha *facepalm* I don't know why I had it in my head that DC went after Maryland, but it explains why the version of Brad's monologue that I had in my head for two years before writing it took for granted that they'd be getting married soon.

Anyway, congratulations on your three-fold marriage! :D I think Brad and Nate probably drag their heels until Maryland legalizes and then do a quiet courthouse wedding with the kids and Ray and Cory for witnesses, like they adorably imagine that this will relieve them of having to do the big party, ha ha those dudes are adorable.

[synecdochic]

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, BOYS.