check in day 7

[lilly_c]

How is the writing going today? What about yesterday?

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Today I

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wrote
2 (33.3%)

edited
1 (16.7%)

posted
1 (16.7%)

sent to beta
2 (33.3%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
1 (16.7%)

had a cheeky break
1 (16.7%)

dealt with life
1 (16.7%)

My progress is

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Mean: 5.00 Median: 5 Std. Dev 2.61

awful 1		1 (20.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (20.0%)
5		1 (20.0%)
6		1 (20.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		1 (20.0%)
brilliant 10		0 (0.0%)

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[lilly_c]

Nothing to share just now.

I'm still editing the already posted chapters of Let Me Fade and the amount of mistakes (mainly missed words, some context in the overall arc) is starting to worry me. I'm getting to the point where I know I need a cheerleader/beta and fandom knowledge is not needed because it's a post canon fic, I'm just finding it difficult to get someone willing to help out with a multichapter wip.

[the_rck]

I'm a poor beta, and I need occasional prodding (if I don't hear anything for a while, I will generally stay silent unless I've been asked to do otherwise), but I'm willing to cheerlead in any fandom.

[the_rck]

Rurouni Kenshin (divergent AU) snippet:

Megumi took a deep breath and hoped that her grief didn't show in her eyes. She touched his face, the merest brush of her fingers.

Sanosuke inhaled sharply but didn't pull back.

"You are worth it. You--" She hesitated, knowing he might not like her next words. "You and Kenshin. Whatever happened to you, it doesn't matter." Except that it does. "You're still here, so I'm still here. As long as you're here, I will stay." As long as I can gather any sort of information and pass it on.

But she knew that she would stay, even if Shishio took Saitoh's head tomorrow, even if her original mission became pointless.

He turned his face away, and she let him go.

Her hand fell to her lap. "What now?" She studied his face. He hid less than Kenshin did, but she had no idea what he meant to do next.

"You take the bed. I'll sleep over there--" He waved a hand at a corner of the room where the floor showed through clearly.

"On the floor?"

"Can't very well ask for a second futon." He still wouldn't look at her. "Just 'cause nobody's going to check doesn't mean they won't ask questions if--" He chopped the sentence off with an abrupt gesture.

"I don't think you'll hurt me in your sleep." Will you? She wasn't entirely sure. Does he have nightmares?

"I haven't slept near anybody since-- Since. Don't know what I do in my sleep."

She sighed, keeping the exhalation as quiet as she could. It would damage him to hurt me. That's something. She rubbed her wrists. But he's already hurt me. Just not badly. "I'm willing to risk it." She thought that the key to Sanosuke might be in spending time with him when he didn't lose control, didn't hurt her, but he was so strong that she couldn't stop him if he did lose control.

And how many women have I heard make excuses for the men who hurt them? Am I going to be one of them? No, it would be worse than that-- If he hurts me and Kenshin finds out, Kenshin will kill him. Maybe I should have picked Kenshin after all. It would be safer for Sanosuke.

"I don't know what happened to you or to Kenshin," she said at last. "Neither of you has told me, and I can't very well ask anyone else. I don't think... It wouldn't be healthy to take too much interest in... before."

Sanosuke laughed. It was a bitter, painful sound. "Fucking nothing happened to Kenshin. He got shot, and when he was better, he was Shishio's dog. Fucking nothing."

Which implies that something happened to you. She didn't say anything for a minute. Then she said, "That's Kenshin." If you don't understand it, I'm not sure I will either. There has to be something more to it. Something. Never mind. It's Sano who matters right now. "What did they do to you?" You'd rather have died than be what you are now.

He still wasn't looking at her. He rose to his feet. "He was very displeased with me." He turned his back to her. He began to remove his clothes.

She realized she was holding her breath and forced herself to exhale. In the time she'd been in Shishio's household, she'd not seen much of Sanosuke's skin. He wore long sleeves, and he wrapped both wrists and hands. She hadn't thought anything of it, and now, she suspected she should have.

He stripped to the waist, dropping his discarded clothing on one of the piles, and she saw what had been hidden. Scar after scar. She thought some were burns. Some were likely deep cuts. Others-- Were those teeth marks? She remembered none of them from the few times she'd seen Sanosuke shirtless before-- Before.

And there were, she knew, many ways to inflict pain that left no scars. These were just bits and pieces of what he’d been through.

He kept his back to her as he unwrapped the bandages around his left wrist and hand. There was a wide ring of scar tissue around his wrist. He raised his left hand and looked at, flexing and clenching his fingers. The fingers of his right hand touched the scar tissue then circled his wrist.

Now he turned back to look at her.

She thought there was both a challenge and a vulnerability in his expression. She wanted to touch him, to tell him that it was all right. Instead, she met his eyes and nodded. I see, and I understand. That's what happened to you. No wonder you can't forgive Kenshin. I certainly won't forgive Shishio.

She rose to her feet and walked over to him. She put one hand on his chest. “It’s more than I could have endured.” It took you a long time to break. I can see that. You must have fought bitterly. She stepped closer and laid her head against his shoulder.

He didn’t move for a moment. Then his arm came up to circle her shoulders.