"So sit on top of the world and tell me how you're feeling"

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

title: Sunday Night And It's Half-Past Eleven
involves: Ty Conklin/Marc-André Fleury
rating: PG-15
disclaimer: uh, it's really not getting dark in Alaska at this time of year. Any other resemblance to real-life remains, as always, strictly coincidental.
notes: Title is adapted from a line of a Bruce Cockburn song. Yes, this is sentimental. And wasn't intended to be metaphoric but ended up as such. I ask for your forgiveness.
word count: 184. Trying to make this any longer involved implications and complications I didn't want right now; may be extended later. I ask for your forgiveness.

Happy Summer.




In this endless Alaskan twilight I wanted to taste you again. Feel you, touch you, and maybe, if you let me hold you all night -- I'd be able to tell you how much you meant to me. The sky right now is always like your smile; you can make your way by it when you shouldn't be able to see.

Damn light; effervescent, ever-present, defying the natural order, disturbing people; taking them outside of routine, away from habit. Refusing to let them sleep, demanding that everybody take notice and respond, simply because it doesn't happen everywhere, all the time...

Persistent, annoyingly intrusive just for the sake of being out of place...

And I want you here, where time's extended, and I'd see you smiling like the whole white night full of brightness.

I think you belong in Alaska at this time of year, Flower. I think you belong in me at any time of year and I think I love you as much as the excesses of a glowing midnight sun after the isolation and surfeit of darkness and misery in winter.

Comments

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was asking for forgiveness, not praise! ;P

(One of the extensions would be Marc - "Winter is where we live, you stupid bastard, and if I see you on another team next year I'll punch you in the face!" Or maybe that's just me.)

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

Yup, except in my case you can throw Shero in there too. "Why aren't you trading Sabu; WHY can't you give me some hope....?"

[nofaves.livejournal.com]

I swear to god, I'm about ready to just tie everyone up and scream at them until they all re-sign

Now THAT'S a crack!fic I'd love to read!

[nofaves.livejournal.com]

The off-season is too long. Thank goodness for mushy metaphorical fic!

Is it weird I can see the longing in Ty's eyes as he gazes toward the southeast horizon? You paint such beauty.

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's weird ;) - but I'm really glad and very flattered.

Further outtakes:
(Darkness starts closing in again after this time of year. I want you with me here because I don't want to leave, come down, and let you go.) But it's conveniently not July 1st yet.

[nofaves.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks. ;)

Now I have the "leave Alaska, fly to Pittsburgh and say goodbye to Marc" scene plastered into my subconscious.

Just hope I don't have to write that one.

[themorningskate.livejournal.com]

Poor Conks. I especially like your opening line; very nice. Sets a really great tone.

This is inspiring me to get my butt in gear and finish my Conks/Fleur one shot already, but the draft ate my brain for a couple of days :D

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

I guess he'll have to go get the blender and make himself another "Marc-André Fleury".
/snark

If he doesn't have a choice about what happens, then yes, poor Conks. If he DOES and he's not here, my response is above. XD

I still want to see what you come up with. ;)

[jess-the1.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful! The imagry that you project is amazing.

Hope Conks dosen't go anywere.

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

thank you; glad you liked it; me too. :)

[dum-spiro19.livejournal.com]

Your word choice was amazing, and I loved the images you portrayed. My favorite part was...

The sky right now is always like your smile; you can make your way by it when you shouldn't be able to see.

Marc-Andre's smile is beautiful. Great job!

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

o.m.g. I have another comment. :D

Thanks, I liked that line myself. ^_^ Sometimes my brain is good to me.
MAF's smile is...well most of the stuff up there can apply to MAF smiling. Or to irrational sunlight. Or to being in love.

Convenient, isn't it. ;)

[dum-spiro19.livejournal.com]

Comments are amazing ♥ I haven't been online for awhile so my comment is a little late ;)

You're welcome!

Haha, it is convenient.