Ooh! Plot bunny!

[averygoodun42]

Thinking about "Traitor" and romance and all that good stuff made me think of a story. A romance.

Main character A was in a hostage situation, like at a bank or something. Something scary and a bit traumatic, but nothing too extreme. That was a while ago, though, she's moved on.

Enter main character B. A and B meet somewhere, and she has this feeling of deja vu, like she knows him from somewhere. He has the same feeling, and, thinking it's fate or souls meeting or something, they start seeing each other.

After their relationship starts getting serious, she realizes that he was one of the hostage takers.


I can't see it being a particularly happy story, but at least it has a better chance of being romantic and happy than using Stockholm or cruelty as a means toward twu luv.

/grumble

Comments

[junewilliams7.livejournal.com]

hmm... how about if the hostage-taker was himself a Stockholm victim? sort of like how Patty Hearst became a kidnapper after she herself was kidnapped. Then character A has some understanding of what character B went through, although character B was more deeply affected as he was a hostage for longer.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): American poet William Stafford, winner of the
National Book Award in 1963, wrote a poem every morning for 40 years.
"I keep following the hidden river of my life," he said. "And I don't have
any sense of its coming to a crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is
just going steadily along." I'd like to nominate Stafford to be your
honorary role model, Gemini. Here's your assignment: Every morning for
the next 20 days, carry out a brief ritual (no more than a few minutes
long) that feeds your lust for life and engenders a blessing for yourself or
someone you care about.

[muggle-prof.livejournal.com]

Don't know why, but this makes me think of a book I've wanted to read but Can't Find Title. (Long ago, the NPR radio station where I lived did a "radio reader" feature which was literally someone reading a book, 30-mins. a day, beginning to end. I heard the first part of this book and then haven't been able to find/finish the story. The book was about a man who accidentally caused another man's death -- auto accident, maybe? -- and sometime later meets/falls in love with the man's widow.)