spikedru_basic ([info]spikedru_basic) wrote in [info]neela_ray,
2006-03-10 10:45:00
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Drabble: Paper Wraps Stone (mild spoiler for 12.10)

Title: Paper Wraps Stone
Author: SpikeDru
Rating: FRC (U)
Disclaimer: Not mine. Never were, never will be.
Spoilers: for 12.10 (All About Christmas Eve)
Content Warning: none. No swearing at all. I must be ill.
Author Note(s): drabble. This sort of links back to Abby's questions to Neela from 12.09 as well so it might be a trial run of a longer fic I have in mind.



Ray knew Neela, could always predict her next move. Apart from the impulsive marriage thing.

But he knew how she arranged her textbooks. How she treated grocery shopping as a military campaign. How she sang along to Bollywood tunes whilst washing the dishes (if she thought he was out). How she looked, wide-eyed and wind-blown, after a lakeside run. How she smiled sleepy thanks when he got them beers after a double. How she hid nervousness and stress behind a scowl. How worried she was about Michael’s parents and this Christmas.

And how she always, always chose paper after stone.


Feedback is my friend and yours. Also, I baked a load of cookies last night. Just sayin'.

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[info]emony2

March 10 2006, 12:11:14 UTC 6 years ago

aww... he's so sweet, is our Ray, isn't he? great drabble!

Em

[info]shadow_diva

March 10 2006, 13:00:30 UTC 6 years ago

*sigh* Aww! Interesting take on the scene. Until I read this, it didn't cross my mind that he let her win, though it probably should have. Great job on this! I loved it! And I'd definitely be interested in reading any longer fic you might write. :D

[info]spikedru_basic

March 10 2006, 13:16:52 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks.

It could have been luck, or Neela knowing Ray always picks rock, because he's a ropck guitar god (hur hur) but I am still thinking about Abby's questions of last week, so I went with this.

[info]shadow_diva

March 10 2006, 22:21:01 UTC 6 years ago

Well, it worked great. :D Loved it! :D

[info]nicki18229

March 10 2006, 20:29:59 UTC 6 years ago

Aww if ot became longer fic that would be cool I like you take on this and you are right I never relizedthe rock paper thing and apart from her sham of marrage I call it that because we all know that she really did not want to marry Gallnt,we all know Neela ia kind of like book wait that did not come out right what I mean is that Ray knows her betterthan anyone in the ER Abby knows her as well as Ray but there are things taht Ray knows more of about her and I'm sure there are things that Abby know more about her than Ray.

[info]spikedru_basic

March 11 2006, 16:06:12 UTC 6 years ago

thanks!

[info]bella1979

March 11 2006, 01:12:26 UTC 6 years ago

Aww Loved this! It would be so him to know that about her and let her win. Very well written :D

[info]spikedru_basic

March 11 2006, 16:07:43 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks!

There was a lot of rational behind him knowing how she plays scissors/paper/stone but it isn't in this. Maybe later, if I can fit a real story around it.

[info]profshallowness

March 11 2006, 08:53:42 UTC 6 years ago

Aw, that's lovely. I love how you reversed the knowing, we've all been concentrating so much on who Neela knows best, but it works both ways. Very complete job in showing why he intentionally lost. I'd love to see you write more in Ray's voice.

[info]spikedru_basic

March 11 2006, 16:12:44 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! I'm gaining confidence using Ray, so I need to keep practising.

The "who you know best" thing has to go both ways. Michael may know more about her private hopes and fears - we don't know what is in her letters to him apart from those poleroids! - but in terms of everyday habits, Ray is going to know her. Michael only knows what she choses to reveal to him, Ray is going to know all the different sides to her.

[info]shadow_diva

March 11 2006, 18:42:39 UTC 6 years ago

Totally agree. But I like to think Ray is perceptive enough to know more about her fears than she thinks. Confidence is a big issue for her, and he definitely knows about that. I'm also reminded of "Intern's Guide to the Galaxy", when they were talking about his cherry-picking charts and she said she's just slow then. He said she wasn't, just differently abled and not to let Pratt get to her. He later gave her one of his easy charts and though he told her he did because she'd owe him (which was certainly partially true), I think he was also trying to help her out. And there was also the discussion about her leukemia patient running away. I think he learned all kinds of things about her that he filed away for future reference. And I'm sure there have been many conversations at home after tough cases that we just haven't seen. But I'm sure they've happened. Because when you get down to it, when all's said and done - at the end of the shift, they go home to each other. And they're pretty much it as each other's sounding board these days.

[info]spikedru_basic

March 16 2006, 16:36:46 UTC 6 years ago

But I like to think Ray is perceptive enough to know more about her fears than she thinks. Confidence is a big issue for her, and he definitely knows about that.
I think what is interesting is that they were initially set up with her as the brainiac who lacked interpersonal skills whilst he was the charmer who lacked book-larning. So both of them doubted they should be doctors because of that. In the last half season they seem to have done away with that dynamic, which naturally leads the reela-inclined to see it as each other's influence.

And they're pretty much it as each other's sounding board these days.
Especially with the cutback in Neela and Abby scenage. We've had the odd hurried conversation, but no sense of deeper friendships there.

[info]shadow_diva

March 16 2006, 23:02:44 UTC 6 years ago

Right, we of course see it as each other's influence. And some people would say it's our 'shipper goggles, but I don't think so this time. The writers deliberately put them in each other's sphere by making them roommates, and there had to be a reason for that. They've worked harder on building up Ray and Neela's connection than Neela and Abby's or Ray and anyone else's. They've changed the characters gradually from they originally were, and I attribute it to each other's influence because really, they haven't spent much time around anyone else.

[info]katja_db

March 11 2006, 12:25:26 UTC 6 years ago

Finally made it over here as well. :)

I absolutely loved this! Underneath all that tough rock guy is a sweet guy ... and Neela knows it.

[info]spikedru_basic

March 11 2006, 16:14:14 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks, and welcome!

I'm not sure Neela does know it, not yet. I think Ray is starting to realise but I have no idea when Neela will get a clue. Nor, as this is ER, if they will get a fine romance or...well...angst.

[info]shadow_diva

March 11 2006, 18:44:53 UTC 6 years ago

I think she's had some clues. I'm sure she found out where he really was at the end of "Nobody's Baby", and I'm sure she probably found out about the guy in "Quintessence of Dust", too. I think she'll fully realize it in the coming episodes, but i won't say anymore about them because of the spoilers. ;)

[info]spikedru_basic

March 16 2006, 16:37:55 UTC 6 years ago

Yes, I have myself some speculation based on snippets of spoilers, but I'll not post them!

[info]shadow_diva

March 11 2006, 18:31:29 UTC 6 years ago

Welcome, Katja! I see you finally made it over here from Fanforum. :D We're glad to have you! Looking forward to discussing our Roomies. :D
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