Title, title, I need a title

I tend towards enigmatic metaphor, personally. "In Place of What Must Come"? "A Shadow to Hide In"?

But then, I'm weird. Connie, there's going to be more, right?

Ah, deborah, not you, too. I want to, but I'm so afraid of getting Jossed in some horrible way. Sure, I know, I'm writing missing scenes of what's already taken place, but if I were to know something dreadful was going to happen to someone I get too busy weeping at the loss to enjoy writing stuff for them.

The above semi-hysteria is not based on any spoilers, just an amorphous dread.

He was on his third helping of chicken tikka marsala, and he'd almost fought Ethan for the naan.

Nit picking: Marsala is a wine, used for cooking often, but not so much in Indian food. Masala (no R) is the Indian recipe. One great version of it is found here.

Thanks, I'll pull the r before I post the finished product.

I saw marsala as masala (which is a multi-faceted spice mixture). Didn't even see the R in there.

Connie, I wouldn't lean on you (although I would like more of this, yes please); I had precisely that experience with a ST;TNG screenplay, submitted through agent and loved by Pillar/Berman. It was called "Guinan in Wonderland" and they adored it and it completely conflicted with their at that time unreleased agreed-upon history for Guinan. So they rejected it, with notes about how wonderful it was. Broke my heart. And I maintain to this day that OUR backstory was better than THEIR backstory. Buggeration.

But where I'm kinda going is, if you're going to write more? Do the title to reflect the entire story arc, maybe?

Do the title to reflect the entire story arc, maybe?

And I'm coming up with something like the Road movies with slash. "Rayne and Giles on the Road to ..." And I think I'd best not finish that line.

"...Perdition"!

Seriously, connie, where's the heart of the story arc going, in your eyes? Because that's going to be where the title lives, right?

I've always seen the basic tension between Ethan and Giles as acknowledging that the underlying attraction/affection is still there (and one can run that as non-slashy as you like, it could be a brother thing--no, really!) despite the vastly different roads they've taken. The bond that existed in the Eyghon days and reflected in the two of them getting plastered together as they relived the old days is strong, but the two of them get close to each other and panic.

A journey, of sorts, reflecting them traveling around finding the potentials. Learning to trust each other again, if they ever truly did, while resisting the impulse to lash out and keep their distance from each other.

I think I'll send that theme wandering around the mental thesaurus, see what words stick.

Hmm... titles?

• "Smouldering Ruins"?
• "A Gift of Janus"?
• "Two-Faced Coin"?

Different lines and scenes from Deb's stories have been running through my head each time I wake up

I've been thinking about it all day, too! And even as Deb is asking Connie for more, I'm still waving my "Deb, Please Write More Amanda!" flag.