I wrote this after trying to imagine the conversation between Rodney and Jennifer - and realizing that if Rodney had an "out", he'd take it. He might even have thought (or convinced himself) that he was doing Jennifer a favour by not sounding as if, "I don't care if you're leaving because I've already found someone else."
When I first started writing, I wanted the ficlet end with an older-but-wiser Jennifer laughing ruefully at all three of them. But she just refused to. The information was too new to her, it came as a shock and since she didn't know the timing of John and Rodney's relationship, it was all too easy for her to assume the worst. She needed time to process her hurt feelings and wouldn't let me take it away from her.
If you write an epi-epilogue, I want to read it! :-)
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Date: 2010-01-18 10:52 pm (UTC)When I first started writing, I wanted the ficlet end with an older-but-wiser Jennifer laughing ruefully at all three of them. But she just refused to. The information was too new to her, it came as a shock and since she didn't know the timing of John and Rodney's relationship, it was all too easy for her to assume the worst. She needed time to process her hurt feelings and wouldn't let me take it away from her.
If you write an epi-epilogue, I want to read it! :-)