Baffling!

[krait]

I was just browsing AO3, as you do, when I ran across a fic with the most baffling tag.

After CNTW, two iterations of the same pairing, four characters, "Hurt/Comfort," and a pairing smushname, the tag list ends with "You may want to skip the last chapter."

The fic's only rated M, the summary sounds like a meet-cute AU romance, and there's absolutely no other clues. So........

What FOR???? o.O

I'll be skipping all the chapters, but I'm thoroughly baffled.

Comments

[branchandroot]

That reminds me of authors who rated m/m kissing Lemon and had coy author notes about "you may want to skip X part".

[flowersforgraves]

Baffling indeed! Maybe a tissue warning???

[azurelunatic]

*throws self on literary grenade*

So (from skimming the last 2 chapters) the "hurt" is cancer, the "comfort" is finding love, and the penultimate chapter is where the story would have ended, as the cancer patient finally meets a good benchmark and they get to have glorious unprotected sex. Happily ever afte--

Final chapter is not fully written out like the rest, it's short snippets (which the chapter note mentions). They get married a year later! 5 years after that? Cancer's back. He's ded.

[sholio]

I'll be skipping all the chapters

Hahahahaaaa. The only reasonable response!

Considering some of the WTF fanfic choices out there, I can't even begin to imagine. Well, I mean, I CAN imagine ... a whole lot of things I wouldn't want to read.