[nods] Very true. I refuse to even go to school reunions because I don't know those people any more.
And anyway, Nicola was never the jilted girlfriend during the Patrick/Ginty period, but upset about losing a friend. I relate to that; I've had lots of male friends because I have so much more in common with them.
OK, I can't resist having a play with their future lives.
Giles never marries because he basically regards wives as convenient ways of creating more sailors and he finds that women have personalities and goals of their own. In fact, chaps on one's ship turn out to be a lot more understanding. In 2010 when he's a destroyer captain, he has a civil union with his Number One, glad that Rowan's one three years earlier has paved the way with his family, and they're all there. Lawrie is delighted with the publicity and her own fame lends glamour to the proceedings.
Karen takes up tutoring children for )- and A-levels while completing a degree at the Open University, then gets a job teaching at the Colebrook School (have I got the name right?) and is very good at it.
Due to the sexism of archaic UK entail laws, Rowan will never have the farm, and buys one with a partner, Esther Frewen, perhaps, whom she meets through Nicola when they make it up and come to Trennels for a holiday.
Anne becomes a nurse and eventually marries a doctor and promptly stops work to be a homemaker and charity volunteer.
Peter leaves the navy at 18, causing a decades-long rift with his father and brother, though Nicola understands and the others accept his decision. He discovers computers and geekdom and becomes a programmer in London
Ginty makes a fair living writing Mills and Boone and has lots of short, intense relationships, eventually marrying in her late 30s. It could be Patrick, but only after a long absence, and she always suspects it was settling.
Nicola travels round the world in her yacht, making a few human interest headlines, and a series of stops for short work stints in interesting places like a French vineyard, an Israeli kibbutz, a waterfront cafe on a Greek island... She decides she likes this life too much to give it up and becomes a travel writer and guide specialising in adventure tourism. She considers the Navy again when they open it properly to women, but decides she was never much good at conforming and obeying rules, and besides, she's having too much fun. She marries another travel guide.
Lawrie goes to RADA and discovers that there are plenty of others as talented, but this is also stimulating and exciting for her. Finding guest TV roles dissatisfying an uninvolving, she joins the RSC where the direct connection with the audience delights her. She find fame only in her mid-30s when she is cast in an SF series as an alien. Her acting is admired, many lust after her, she is invited to many cons, but she remains unrecognised in the street. When the show finishes, she goes back to the stage where she can be anything and any age she likes. She marries two actors before finding lasting love with a company director (and SF fan).
You can tell I don't want to let this universe go, can't you. :-P
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Date: 2008-06-30 10:45 pm (UTC)And anyway, Nicola was never the jilted girlfriend during the Patrick/Ginty period, but upset about losing a friend. I relate to that; I've had lots of male friends because I have so much more in common with them.
OK, I can't resist having a play with their future lives.
Giles never marries because he basically regards wives as convenient ways of creating more sailors and he finds that women have personalities and goals of their own. In fact, chaps on one's ship turn out to be a lot more understanding. In 2010 when he's a destroyer captain, he has a civil union with his Number One, glad that Rowan's one three years earlier has paved the way with his family, and they're all there. Lawrie is delighted with the publicity and her own fame lends glamour to the proceedings.
Karen takes up tutoring children for )- and A-levels while completing a degree at the Open University, then gets a job teaching at the Colebrook School (have I got the name right?) and is very good at it.
Due to the sexism of archaic UK entail laws, Rowan will never have the farm, and buys one with a partner, Esther Frewen, perhaps, whom she meets through Nicola when they make it up and come to Trennels for a holiday.
Anne becomes a nurse and eventually marries a doctor and promptly stops work to be a homemaker and charity volunteer.
Peter leaves the navy at 18, causing a decades-long rift with his father and brother, though Nicola understands and the others accept his decision. He discovers computers and geekdom and becomes a programmer in London
Ginty makes a fair living writing Mills and Boone and has lots of short, intense relationships, eventually marrying in her late 30s. It could be Patrick, but only after a long absence, and she always suspects it was settling.
Nicola travels round the world in her yacht, making a few human interest headlines, and a series of stops for short work stints in interesting places like a French vineyard, an Israeli kibbutz, a waterfront cafe on a Greek island... She decides she likes this life too much to give it up and becomes a travel writer and guide specialising in adventure tourism. She considers the Navy again when they open it properly to women, but decides she was never much good at conforming and obeying rules, and besides, she's having too much fun. She marries another travel guide.
Lawrie goes to RADA and discovers that there are plenty of others as talented, but this is also stimulating and exciting for her. Finding guest TV roles dissatisfying an uninvolving, she joins the RSC where the direct connection with the audience delights her. She find fame only in her mid-30s when she is cast in an SF series as an alien. Her acting is admired, many lust after her, she is invited to many cons, but she remains unrecognised in the street. When the show finishes, she goes back to the stage where she can be anything and any age she likes. She marries two actors before finding lasting love with a company director (and SF fan).
You can tell I don't want to let this universe go, can't you. :-P