serendipity

[ciroccoj]

Odd to be writing fic about a person who, totally accidentally, runs into somebody they hadn't seen in fifteen years, and then, totally accidentally, run into two people I haven't seen in five years.

Yeah, it's 5 v. 15 years, and the people I ran into were never my arch-enemies, and there's been no intervening magical war (that I'm aware of) so the similarity falls apart fairly quickly, but it was still odd. It was two moms I knew in Kingston when Daniel was a baby. I was in prenatal class with one of the moms, and Mom & Me group with the other. They were in Ottawa for the day, shopping at IKEA. Who knew ;)

So now I'm off to try and finish off my fic about the fifteen year thing, and trying not to think of IKEA. Because IKEA totally doesn't fit the fic at all.



And let me just put a big old HAND up to repel any attempts by certain persons to suggest a trip to IKEA for the protagonists, maybe to look at mattresses - totally innocently, of course - and then to oh so accidentally fall upon the same mattress at the same time and be all atwitter and confused and thus segue into slashy territory.

Yes, you know who you are.

Comments

[lonejaguar.livejournal.com]

Surely you have to do research. I mean, only the good authors do that right?

Oh wait, I was one of those "certain persons," wasn't I?

Dammit.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Surely you have to do research.
::snork::

[bear.livejournal.com]

HEY! All I was going to say is that another difference between fiction and reality is that you didn't want to have mad sex with the people from your past, while Harry obviously DOES.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

You are a relentless irresistible force of smutslash corruption. It's more than a little scary, as well as endearing ;)

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Ooh, they totally should!!

Except...do they have Ikea in England?

(As I do not slash H/D, I feel that I can totally ignore the hand.)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Except...do they have Ikea in England?
Hm... ::scurrying off to check::

Yes! They even have an outlet in Cardiff, where the story is set!

Not that that means anything at all because nobody is going to IKEA in my story.