[#427 - overture] The Tales of Hoffmann - Presto non son più forte

[zdenka]

Title: Presto non son più forte
Author: Zdenka
Fandom: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / The Tales of Hoffman (opera by Offenbach)
Rating: G
Characters: Hoffmann; Hoffmann/Stella
Challenge: #427 - overture
Notes/Warnings: The opera The Tales of Hoffmann opens with the characters coming in from the intermission of Don Giovanni (so characters in one opera watching another opera). The title means "suddenly I'm no longer strong"; it's a line from Zerlina as she tries to resist Don Giovanni's seductions.
Summary: At the opera, the poet Hoffmann can think only of the prima donna.

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Prompt: #428 - Recovery

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This week's prompt is recovery.

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Original - Old Friend

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Title: Old Friend
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Rating: T
Notes: Scottie bumps into her old teacher at the grocery store, unprepared for the past to meet her.

Blue doesn't know what to do when his sister Scottie calls him from the grocery store, her voice thundering in an uncharacteristic panic. The phone shakes in his hands.

"She's here! I-I don't know what to do. I'm not ready to see her again, not right now, fuck."

"Who are you speaking of?" asks Blue in his comforting, familiar awkward turn of phrase, like a robot in human skin. If Scottie were in a better state, she'd laugh at his formality.

As is, she sucks in a harsh breath, heartbeat ricocheting inside her ribcage, and answers:

"Fun story. Remember Thompson?"