Okay, now that I've had time to read this properly, WOW. This is a great Hal-POV, just the right mix of self-awareness and, well, dickishnes. . .
it was really soothing, to be around talentless stupid people who just fixed pipes and didn't care about anything but being paid and didn't know what it was to want things
That conveys a great sense of Hal's unexamined belief that what's going on in his head is just more IMPORTANT than it is for other people, and yet at the same time he wants people to judge him without knowing who he really is -- so to have the 'specialness' but divorced from the source of the specialness and of course Kate and Harry, so complete in themselves, are his Kryptonite.
I just really love this universe and could read another billion stories about it, THANK YOU.
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:21 am (UTC)it was really soothing, to be around talentless stupid people who just fixed pipes and didn't care about anything but being paid and didn't know what it was to want things
That conveys a great sense of Hal's unexamined belief that what's going on in his head is just more IMPORTANT than it is for other people, and yet at the same time he wants people to judge him without knowing who he really is -- so to have the 'specialness' but divorced from the source of the specialness and of course Kate and Harry, so complete in themselves, are his Kryptonite.
I just really love this universe and could read another billion stories about it, THANK YOU.