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Date Posted: 20:53:29 12/12/07 Wed
Author: anon.
Subject: I skimmed the story early this morning, and bits of it came back to haunt at me through the usual long and draining day. Inside.
In reply to: . 's message, "In the Bleak Midwinter" on 09:01:18 12/12/07 Wed

I won't say much about the overarching theme - we're all familiar with the maxims: "don't go to bed angry" "if you can't say something nice don't say anything" "think before you speak" etc. This story just shows the consequences, carried to the anguished extreme, of forgetting the "golden" rule that the prompt is a variant of - "do unto others ...."

The title and ending clearly imply that Mac dies, though it's not 100% definite. So ... fellow readers, what's the next (unwritten) scene:
a. Their wedding - Mac recovered, or, the Code Blue wasn't for her, but for the unseen and unknown person in the bed behind the curtains on the other side of Room 4.
b. Mac's funeral - the ring glinting on her finger as the casket is closed.
c. Fast forward to the birth of Harm's daughter MacKenzie with the woman he met and came to love a few yrs into the future.
d. Harm and Mac awake simultaneously from the hideous nightmare of "what could have been."

So that my little shipper heart can continue to go pitter patter I'll try to focus on (a) or (d)!

The title, the poem (lyrics), the medical detail, the use of "Sarah" vice "Mac" and the romanticized description of the ring combine to say...."doc" to me. Well done and should give us all something to ruminate over.

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[> And then he woke up, right? I'll just pretend that's what happened! LOL Wonderful, suspenseful writing with a great message. Inside -- JAG Junkie (Ronda), 21:00:45 12/12/07 Wed [1]

The general consensus seems to be doc, but I'm not so sure. It seems like I heard somewhere that ambulances do not have room for a person to "ride along". And in the extreme case that a person *was* allowed to ride, they would have to be up front with the driver, not in the back. If that is true, then I can't imagine doc stretching reality like that without an A/N at the beginning. Just a hunch. As for another guess about the author, I have no idea! LOL


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