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2014-08-21
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2014-10-22
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Unrepentant

Chapter 10: Extra: Illustrations

Notes:

I drew a little illustration for each chapter of this fic (and put them into End Notes for each chapter); some of them are to my satisfaction, some make me less happy, some are downright silly - there, I am no artist. This fandom is full of amazingly talented artists but sadly, they are nowhere near my fic - and so I have to settle for my own fumbling with pencil, paper, and my smartphone to take pictures of my pictures and for a little adjustment of contrast.

As the tenth, one extra illustration, I drew a treat for my beta. She refused to believe that her crush OC, Quentin, would have sailed out of the story all cheeky and unfazed - well. We all have our comedowns. This is how he looks like when he thinks nobody can see him.

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"I bet he doesn't even have bad days."

 

 

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Author's Note:

Well well. This is the end to the most vexing story that ever came to life in my head. I am amazed and a bit humbled by the discovery of how enthusiastically this piece was received. When I started to write it, I lived under the impression that I was almost alone in my frustration over Season three developments and especially with the way John's character has turned out. To find so many of you coming to tell me in the Comments that the story rang true to you was unbelievably encouraging.

I thank you, my readers, for support and for ideas you have been leaving in the Comments. More than once, you have alerted me to another way of reading, to another aspect of characterisation that I didn't notice before, and more than once I used your speculations to further improve the parts of the story that weren't written yet. You have been essential.

The greatest thank you for this goes to Ariane DeVere. Not only for her transcripts (without which I wouldn't be able to write a line) and not only for her incomparable beta work (you guys think I can write in English? You should see the drafts...) but most of all for her patience and perseverance. Because Ari likes John more than I do, even after Series three, and I the more a dick I was writing him, the less happy she was with the task. But she didn't give in, didn't let me go, and it's thanks to her this story is fit to see the world. I might be the mother of my stories but she's definitely the midwife:) Thank you so much, Ari. There are only two people in this world I have told them I loved them - with one, I have three children, and with the other, I wrote three of my best fics.

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