AN: If you find that you simply can't get enough of Tim and Ivo, whitwit is currently working on a multi-chapter fic, Pretty Boy which is a No Night is too Long AU. And if you haven't seen the film with Marc Warren and Lee Williams, it is available for purchase in a format compatible with most countries' technologies. I know - I have the French one. :)
Happy reading!
~ Pace is the trick
Be Apart of It
Isabel once surprised me by remarking that Ivo was such a social butterfly, it was impossible to keep up with him. He had so many friends she stopped visiting him. It was too exhausting to meet so many new people in such a short period of time. Because of course Ivo wanted her to meet everyone, he loved them all equally. He was in love with life - everything and everyone around him.
I was literally unable to respond. Ivo had never seemed a part of anything on more than a superficial level; "apart" of it was much more fitting.
But in college he had been in a theatre group and the president of the Cinema Society that promoted Astruc's 1948 manifesto of film as '(a) form in which the artist can express his thoughts, however abstract they may be, or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in the contemporary essay or novel.' (Yes, that would be Ivo's take on film. No wonder he loved Danny. I sighed enviously.)
He played rugby and chess, performed in rags for local charities and mentored young students who had potential but simply couldn't find their niche in one of the groups. He was a favourite with his professors, popular with his fellow students, and a frequent contributor to the college magazine's editorial page which won him an avid readership.
He was unlike anyone I knew. Or thought I knew.
Had he changed so completely since Danny? It was a rhetorical question. How could he not have changed, not have felt completely betrayed by the society he knew and loved? How could he not have become iconoclastic, anti-social even, in the wake of such violent rejection of his kind? Isabel said he had been so badly hurt he just shut down, stopped feeling anything for anyone.
Until me.
