beatrice_otter: Drawing of a hippo in a red leotard and tutu, holding a rose in its teeth.  At the top it says "Yuletide! Featuring Beatrice_Otter as Rose Hippo" (Yuletide)
I only wrote one treat this year, although neither it nor my assignment were the YT story I spent the most time on. That would be a Sense and Sensibility AU that I realized I would not be able to finish in time, and thus have set aside to become a New Year's Resolution. We shall see if I actually finish it without the pressure of a deadline.

Anyway, I loved In the Heights, and I was happy to write this story about Kevin Rosario (Nina's dad). I got halfway into it and then realized the recip had DNW'd kidfic. And I didn't know if it meant they didn't want Nina, or if it was just a general DNW they hadn't realized might conflict with their In the Heights request. After some dithering (because it was like the 22nd, and thus REALLY LATE), I asked the mods and they passed on the question and it turned out that indeed it was a case of not realizing that their general DNWs would be a problem in one fandom. So I was able to finish and post the fic, and I like it.

Title: The Dance of Time
Fandom: In the Heights (2021)
Characters:
Kevin Rosario
Written For: Ljparis in Yuletide 2021
Length: 3280 words
Rating: general audiences.
Summary: Camila has been dead for a year, but grief isn't a straight line.

At AO3. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

The first year after Camila died was mostly a blur for Kevin. He felt like the world had stopped, or that it should stop, that there should be a hole in it just like the hole in his life Camila had left behind. He worked, he took care of Nina, he slept. Sometimes, he'd realize he'd been staring at nothing for God only knew how long. There were whole days where he'd look back on it the next day and have no idea what had happened, what he'd done.

And there were other days where he wanted nothing so much as to go start a fight or crawl inside a bottle or take a spray can of paint and scrawl nasty words over the doors of the ER that hadn't managed to save his wife. Those days, he held on to his temper with both hands, and bought himself a lottery ticket if he got through the day without losing it.

On other days, he'd turn around expecting Camila to be there, forgetting she was dead. Those were the worst. )

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