Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide
Series Metadata
Listing Series
-
Tags
Summary
...
An exploration of Helen's thoughts and rather intense emotions throughout 1x02 "Once in a Lifetime". Episode 'novelization'.
...
"Helen has always been feisty, but she’s also always been equally messed up, fighting and fighting until those moments when she can’t fight anymore. That’s when men like Lindsay strike—and she knows it, too. Yet she lets it happen, over and over again.
Because in those moments, when she’s drowning and frightened and losing her grip on her sanity, there is no room for rationality, not even for survival instinct, except a most basic need to breathe. In those moments, she can no longer fight for herself.
So how could she possibly fight off other people?"
Series
- Part 1 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide
-
Tags
Summary
Another exploration of Helen and Dale's early days as a couple, this one focused on the events of 1x03 "The White Marquis Matinee Jacket", all from Dale's POV. Soft creative dates with artificial flowers and possibly some smooching.
....
"How long till Helen Norville comes to her senses and realises she’s way out of his league, that she can do so much better than this awkward, nerdy producer from work—who not only tends to ramble, get twitchy, and a bit nauseous, he also has this unfortunate propensity for being obtuse at times.
People aren’t his forte, and neither are relationships—ever."
Series
- Part 2 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide
-
Tags
Summary
...
Direct follow up to 1x06 "Meltdown". A few hours after the end of the episode, Helen and Dale talk, and try to figure out what to do.
...
"By the time he made it to her place, thirty minutes after her as promised, she’d already downed a couple of heavy-handed glasses, along with a couple of pills, finding her half-passed out on her couch, her sleep-deprived metabolism no match for what she’d put in her system.
He’d helped her into bed, fully clothed, only removing her earrings and her watch, like he had a few times before. He could have gone the moment she crashed; he didn’t.
He’s still here, hours later, their relentless thoughts slowly filling up the room with a heavy kind of tension, until it’s smothering her more tightly than her stupid jacket."
Series
- Part 3 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide
-
Tags
Summary
This story takes place a few months after 2.06 “Fireworks” so mind the spoilers.
Following a tragedy that leaves Dale spiralling even more out of control, Helen flies back home. Because despite the mess they’ve become, they will always be that person for one another.
At least, it remains true as far as she’s concerned.
Loyal to a fault.
Series
- Part 4 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide
-
Tags
Summary
...
Post season 3. Helendale. This is a story about Dale coming home.
...
"Dale watches people a lot, when he’s not working on a story. Sitting at cafés, walking in busy areas of the city, observing. He takes it all in, genuinely appreciating a lot of it, not indifferent to the things he sees and the stories he hears.
But the dissonance is strong, the barriers thick, from the language to the culture, to the ever-present asynchrony he’s always felt around people. It’s as impenetrable as the Wall used to be.
None of this surprises him. He’s spent years building his own wall, brick, after brick, after brick.
He cannot expect it to fall just because he did."
Series
- Part 5 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide
-
Tags
Summary
...
Post season 3. Helendale. It should be easy, slipping back into this, into one another. And in some ways, it is. But love isn’t just a feeling, it’s something you do. And neither of them has ever done it quite like this before.
...
“Her limbs are still heavy, but she wraps herself around him, and Dale sinks into her hold, his arms pulling her close. She buries her nose in his shirt, tethered by his fingers in her hair, and his scent in her lungs.
She is home in his arms, always was, from the very beginning. She lost sight of that when her fears took over; lost sight of him.
They cling to each other like people who have lost one another—with relief, and a hint of regret.”
Series
- Part 6 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide