(Fic) Sui Generis—(7/7)

Title:  Sui Generis
Series: Genus
Fandom: Castle
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi, Romance.
Warnings: Possible squick, non-sexual content skirting dub-con
Reverse Warnings: Whatever certain scenes or warnings might lead one to believe, this fic contains neither mpreg nor naughty tentacles. I promise.
Details: Pre-slash, AU, genre!crack, angst, body horror, mood whiplash, insanity (not the characters', mine), starfish aliens, unbetad.
Characters/Pairings: Castle―pre-Javier Esposito/Kevin Ryan, Kevin/Jenny, Richard Castle.
Wordcount: 14,909
Summary: Javier confessed never expecting Kevin to believe him. Kevin didn't, but somehow, things still wound up spiraling frighteningly out of control...
Details: I began this prior to the episode "Heartbreak Hotel", so it kind of hinges on Jenny not being ridiculous enough to deny her future husband his best man...
I partially blame start_to_stop for this fic. Their alien!Jenny fic was just so awesome I had to play with my own personal plot smeerp. Don't expect anything approaching normal here. Of course, because I am incapable of writing a concept without taking it seriously, this is yet another attempt at crack that devolved into something else. This time xeno and body horror. For those of you who liked "Evidence to the Contrary" and "Quality of Life", here's more of the same type of bizarre weirdness... Only kind of even more so. *sigh* I need to stop letting my undiagnosed brain tumor write my fics for me.

Chapters: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 5.5 - 6 - 7

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So, most of the people who have me on their flist probably read my fics. I know the "Life" series is pretty popular right now, so while this post isn't about fic, here's a little background on that...

My dad had a stroke a couple years ago, and while it might not have been my intent at the time, whenever I read "Quality of Life", I can't help but see the influence of that experience in the fic. Hidden behind the zombies and the gay porn, it's a story about illness and hospitalization, and diseases that effect the mind, and the impact that has on a person and those who care about them for the rest of their life. Because it's hard seeing someone you love pull through something, only not everything upstairs is quite the same. And when they're aware of it, when they know and struggle against those new difficulties, in a way, watching that struggle while and after they recover can sometimes be even harder than seeing them taken down by it in the first place.

About an hour ago, my father had a seizure. He's never had one before, and my mom went to the hospital with him, and I'm just left here hoping he's going to be okay. I'm really worried about him.

And I just... I don't know. I wanted to get that out there. Articulate that that's the place where that story came from. I'm not really looking for sympathy on here (not saying don't comment, I just don't really need that) but any quiet well-wishing you'd like to do on your own would obviously be appreciated, even if I'll never know about it.

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Edit: He's going to be okay. They're pretty sure they know what tipped it off, and he's on his way home right now.