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“It’s time we get a real place, we’ve been on the road long enough. It’s time we retire the Bonnie and Clyde act. I’m serious, we could do this.”
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This would have been the perfect love story….
sourceThis Dates With Neal Cassidy blog may be my undoing if they keep at it. Just read this one and it made me weepy. In fact, Imma copy and paste the whole ficlet, because it’s just that good.
She was soaked to the bone. Her hair was heavy with rain, hanging down dripping wet against her back. The dress she’d lifted out of a Goodwill donation bin three days ago clung to her skin, tight and sticky—she’d seen a shy smirk on Neal’s face as he looked just away from her, pretending not to notice.
They held hands tightly as they ran through the downpour, fingers locked together in a vice grip like the offending raindrops might try to pull them apart. Neal tugged her onto the sidewalk and under an awning, grinning sheepishly as Emma finally let go of his hand, bending her head over to wring out her hair.
“Not exactly what I had in mind when I said ‘walk in the park in the rain,’ sorry,” he said, leaning against the wall and scratching at his head. Emma laughed a little, shaking her head.
“We can’t get back in the car like this, we’ll never get the mildew smell out,” she said, raising her eyebrows.
“So we’ll find a McDonald’s and camp out under the hand dryer, should only take a coupla hours, right?” he grinning, reaching out to wrap a hand around her hip, pulling her back to him. She rolled her eyes, leaning against him anyway, burying her face against the warm-damp skin of his neck. “Oh, hey. We’ll find a laundromat, I’ve been meaning to show you how to jimmy the machines, anyway.”
“Mm, ‘kay,” she mumbled, nodding a little. She pressed a quick kiss against his neck, picking up his hand and playing with his fingers, idly. “So what’s your thing with the rain, anyway? This is the third time in two weeks you’ve walked us into a torrential downpour because you wanted to play in the rain,” she teased.
Neal laughed, shaking his head and pressing a kiss to the top of her head. “S’kinda stupid,” he shrugged.
“I like stupid. I live with you,” she looked up, grinning. He rolled his eyes, sticking his tongue out at her.
“My thing with the rain,” he sighed, his voice getting sort of soft and distant— the way it always did when he was about to tell her something particularly real.
“When I first got here—” he gestured sort of vaguely with one arm— she couldn’t tell if he meant here as in Portland or here as in on the street, but she’d had enough of a past of her own to never push Neal for details he didn’t give. “There was this movie theater I used to sneak into. Old-style, just a coupla screens. They had this marathon one day, these old classic romance films, and I stayed the whole day because I figured I had nowhere else to go. There’s always rain in those, you know? In those big romantic gesture moments, they’re always kissing in the rain and the girl’s foot pops up, and I don’t know, it’s always raining,” he rambled.
“You’re dragging me out in the rain because you want a big romantic moment?” she grinned.
He shrugged a little, giving her a small smiled. “Sometimes, when we’re…when something’s really happy, you know? Sometimes it feels like that moment, that really happy moment, it needs rain.”
“Yeah,” she said, quietly. “I think I get that. You’re getting wet and it’s cold and your hair’s messed up, and you know you’re really happy because—”
“Because you don’t care,” he finished, smiling softly. “Yeah. Exactly.”
Emma bit her lip. “I like the rain,” she said, quietly. Neal grinned so widely the skin around his eyes crinkled, gently cupping her face with his hand and leaning in to kiss her, slow and teasing, his thumb tracing down her jawline, gently.
“I like you,” he murmured.
What if Neal was alive and ended up in the past with Emma. (I think Neal would tease her when she got in her FTL outfit)
source@Corbin Hugs my friend, hugs
I think one common theme for must of us who are FireDucklings was the hope they inspired in us.
Yeah sucky things happen in our lives and we have all done sucky things but there was a chance that things will get better, there is the remarkable hope that in the end we will have happy life with family and friends. That we will get a day off….
When you set up two characters who were abandoned lost and alone who felt like no one loved them, wanted them, and cared for them. You just want them to find a family and home. I was rooting for the SwanfireFamily so bad, rather it be romantic or not. I wanted Henry, Emma, and Nealfire to chance to have a home and family. I’m sadden that 1 out of 3 did not get that because of reasons.
@KFC hmmm you got me thinking there girl, could MRJ be telling us what really happen behind the scene with his Brando Waterfront incorporation. A guy force to lose because of reasons that was above his head. Now this can be just Neal, Neal was force to not get his happy ending because of Fate and reasons. Or was there more stuff going on behind the scenes.
I can honestly tell you this whether they Kept Emma single or went SF I doubt the show would end if either one of those happen (no more than it would with CS) because of ratings because there is always something else to focus on in the show (hopefully).
I’m tending to think the majority of the events of season 3 is more ABC then A&E because its more of marketable calculations, the writing has been dumb and cliched down a bit with highly repetitive story tropes and overused lines that we all heard before. I think Season 4 will be even more of ABCDisney and less of A &E as well. They have Disney’s beloved Elsa so you better believe that Mickey Mouse will be in that writing room hovering over them like a boss going yes, no, no, no, do it this way, write this, take out that, no, no, maybe, on second thought no, how about this, NO, better yet let me do it . LOL
"I will be kind but I will speak my mind."
That Mickey picture is going to haunt me for the remainder of my lifetime.
Keeper of Thor’s Hammer, Will Scarlet’s Genie Bottle, Emma’s Gun, Emma and Henry’s Moment at the Castle, Cora, and the infamous Family Tree!
This is so obviously the beautiful narrative that the writers had been weaving together for 2.5 seasons, but they ended up cutting off the branch on which they’d been sitting. Don’t they know how that old lullaby goes? “When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby: cradle and all.”
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
That Mickey picture is where I think this story really is coming from now. I really wanted to keep my hope! Dashed it is. I will stay positive. It just won’t be with OUaT. This place is still a place for insight from my favotite people and I cant leave.
Corbin, I read you all the time. *hugs* and support! Words are not my thing, but I’m always sending positive thoughts and wishes.
What if Neal was alive and ended up in the past with Emma. (I think Neal would tease her when she got in her FTL outfit)Robbed of more Nealfire in EF clothes… 🙁
I declare it canon!
Corbin – I know I don’t frequent the other areas of this board or the chat here much, if at all, anymore and I’m definitely done with this show as far as watching it every week, but I’m not leaving the board as a whole anytime soon. I’ll probably be hiding in this thread from now on but I promise that I will be around even though I’ve given up the show. I’m so sorry for all the stuff you’ve had to endure and am glad you seem to be in a better place now. *HUGS* 🙂
*still annoyed that we were robbed of more Neal in FT land clothes* 😥
#MoreBOOMLessGloom
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