"The Language of Love", J/D Drabble, rated G

[sid]

This has been hanging around on my PC for a day and a half, so I guess I should post it.

THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE    

Strange, the things that could make a person fall in love.

Daniel saved his life on that very first mission. Second trip, Jack was moved beyond words when he witnessed Daniel’s parting from the Abydonians. He admired tremendously the way Daniel handled his worry and grief; and his fierce resolve to find his captured wife.

But none of that did the trick.

No, it was the first time they shared a tent. Daniel talked in his sleep. Chinese? Jack stared in the half-light and felt a rush of emotion he hadn’t experienced since the early days with Sara.

Truly strange.

Comments

[ivorygates]

You write such lovely drabbles. And they're so hard for me....

[sid]

I check the word count as I go, so I can do some paring before I get to the end and find out I have 25 words too many!

You, on the other hand, write NOVELS, baby. I don't know if I have that in me....

[ivorygates]

You know, A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS was supposed to be thirty pages long? Really. And then it was eighty pages long. And the final version is, I think, 700-something.

I never actually intend to write novels. I just don't know when to shut up. *g*

And actually, you know, I think you're selling yourself short. I bet if you put all the parts of HOW IT ALL BEGAN together, you'd be getting dangerously close to novel territory. You know, put some of your four-and-five parters all into one document, and I think you'd shock yourself. Novelist, dear heart. And there are places you could even expand on them, too.

Novel, novel, novel...

(*runs away*)

[sid]

Collection of short stories and novelettes, maybe. ;-)

I'm more of a "chopper" than an "expander". I always wrote school work and essay tests succinctly. It's my style! I have a style! LOL.

ps I did start reading AMFO, and I have it bookmarked to go back to. I like Dani.
:-)

[ivorygates]

A style, a style, she's got a style! *cue Broadway music and boy dancers*

Still, with all the lush sensual J/D stuff you give us, you really should consider Not Chopping. It's cruel, you know, to deprive us of even one sentence...

Wow, you're reading AMFO? I consider it a great honor when anyone, slash or gen, reads out of their preference, and I think any writer should. Thank you! I'm glad you like Dani.

And a big box of Virtual Chocolates to you! Lindt, Godiva, or Kron, Mistress?

[sid]

I'll take one of each. Since I took up wine as a hobby, I'm very big on side-by-side taste comparisons. :-P

I am actually going to try to be more descriptive in my fics, and that amounts to expanding. Not Chopping. :-)

[ivorygates]

Excellent! Of course you already know that dark chocolate is a marvelous companion to vintage port. Double the decadence!

[sid]

That blur you see is me running to the virtual liquor store.

[ivorygates]

*VBG*

They actually sell tasting selections of dark chocolates to go along with port. The chocolate comes in these little disks, so what you have is a box of what looks like poker chips. The cocoa content and so on is stamped onto each piece in gold leaf, so you know exactly what you're eating, I guess. It's from one of the European companies with a very long name, and of course I'm totally blanking...