Mark Arbour
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Wow. Thanks!
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Glad you liked it! Yeah, I know they seem short. Good thing I've been posting pretty often.
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Thanks Ricky, for explaining that. Good news is that the next chapter should hit very soon. It's almost done.
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August 3, 2003 Beijing, China Brad I heard Will end our call, and then I felt myself collapsing back onto the bed. My mind was whirling, and I felt myself getting dizzy, and then going into a trance-like state. I recognized the symptoms, because even though this had only happened to me twice before, those events had been memorable. The first time I’d been transported back into time, to 1968, when I’d met my real father for the first and only time. The second time h
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Thanks for another great review! I think that you'll find the family is very forgiving of Brad, and really, that's been their nature all along. As long as the person is willing to acknowledge and atone for their faults, they are readily welcomed back into the fold. Even Brian was given multiple chances.
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Thanks Gary. With every story, Wade gains a little more confidence. He is no longer the privileged undergrad student, but he's a power-broker in his own right.
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Your point about the Duke and Nana filling the parental role is spot on, and one I hadn't quite realized, at least consciously. It makes sense.
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Thank you so much! I had much of this lined out when I started the story, but some of it just fell into place as I went along. JJ's strategy was one of those lucky inspirations to come along the way.
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I"m glad you enjoyed it Jason. It's nice to have drama without tragedy. So far.
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I'm glad you liked the chapter. In my life, there have been people who have read me perfectly, and knew just buttons to push. Will does that with Brad. Sometimes, I think Brad actually appreciates it. Ha ha.
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Thanks Miles, but if you did that, everyone would bitch about me inflating my ratings. ;-)
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Thank you so much.
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Thanks. I try to keep my priorities straight. :-)
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You raised a lot of issues, but the ADD person in me is going to focus on one: Brad. I think it would be really easy to beat the crap out of him for how he's acting, and he probably deserves it. At the same time, I think it's important to remember his past, and what a truly fucked up childhood he had. It can't be easy to work beyond the way his mother treated him, and that has influenced him more than he'd admit. It's easy to see that Robbie was the rock that held him together (and sometimes tore him apart), so then to lose him too must have put some intense emotional pressure on him. Most people with that kind of baggage would be pretty fucked up, and Brad is no exception.
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Why thank you!!!!
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Thanks! I thought Wade's comment a chapter ago or so was illuminating: what have they (ME, et al.) lost? They may have a battle on their hands, but right now, things are exactly how they want them. ME has Alex all to herself, and JJ is, for all intents and purposes, completely out of their lives.
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You make some very good points, some that will probably be expanded on in future chapters. I think that it's dawning on Will (in spurts) that Zach's illogical behavior has a possible explanation. Will's going to factor that in to his overall angst with Zach.
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He's a clever little shit.
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I'll take that as a compliment, even though I don't like Shakespeare. ;-)
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You make a good point about the power of this family, but I think that Wade and Nana are well aware of who they're dealing with. I think that Wade, JP, and Stef being as proactive as they are is probably the only option to avoid a full scale feud.
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JJ may not be as smart as Will, but he's bitchier. :-)
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I'm glad you liked it. It's not easy dreaming up all this crap. :-)
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Black Widow (Story Discussion)
Mark Arbour replied to Mark Arbour's topic in Mark Arbour Fan Club's Topics
Only Elizabeth didn't know that Zach told Will, and that's what Wade is frustrated about. Imgoingslightlymad mentioned that the drug test may not be devastating to Zach's career, in and of itself. I would think that the meth thing was Elizabeth's way of sending a warning shot across Zach's bow (to coin a George Granger-era term).
