Yuletide reveal: "Rest Cure" (The Sting [1973])

[dorinda]

For Yuletide this year, I wrote a story for "The Sting" (1973):

Rest Cure (14557 words) by Dorinda
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Sting (1973)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Henry Gondorff/Johnny Hooker
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker
Additional Tags: Con Artists, 1930s, Post-Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Rescue, Boats and Ships, Hubris, peacocking, Injury, Beating, Drowning/Near-Drowning, Bandaging, Caretaking, Kissing, First Time
Summary:

Johnny finds himself a new hobby, and it gets him in over his head. Literally.

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One of llwyden's prompts was about Henry and Johnny going on vacation and failing miserably, and that made me think, what if it was a forced sort of vacation, because of a con that fell entirely apart?

Soooo, I threw Johnny off a boat. Sorry, kid. :D

Thanks to some great brainstorming help from friends, I ended up really enjoying writing it...I hadn't tried Johnny's POV in a while. And I also ended up getting very fond of a couple of my little one-scene OCs. It's a treat when that happens.

Comments

[killabeez]

This was SO GOOD, Rindy. I mean, I'm never not impressed by you, but it's pretty awesome how you just Keep. Getting. Better.

[dorinda]

♥ ♥ ♥ That is so nice of you! I was just talking to someone the other day about that writing reminder going around: if you look back at previous stories and notice things in them that you would do better now, you should feel good about that because it means you're improving. :D