Calendar Girl by CaptainDoofus (M)
4.7k words, 1 chapter
Vanessa's turning ninety, and Wade has a crisis about it. Logan's there for him.
author's tags: major character death, established relationship, wade and vanessa are best friends forever, but wade is immortal and vanessa isn't, angst, hurt/comfort, bittersweet ending
my tags: major character death, established relationship, angst, hurt/comfort, bittersweet ending
review (light spoilers):
with all due respect this fic makes me want to throw myself off a cliff <3 if y'all have been following me long enough you know that i'm absolutely obsessed with wade and vanessa and that i also love explorations of grief. so put those two together and you'll get me bashing my head against a wall and then staring at the ceiling for 5 hours.
i've had this in my bookmarks to rec for three months but i've thought about it multiple times since because yeah it's THAT kind of fic. they absolutely nailed vanessa's character (which to me will always be impressive) and wade's too, and logan's and this entire fic is just like. a reminiscing. and it makes every single part of it so bittersweet even when nothing is happening. just the exploration of the fact that their conversations still feel the same but everything else has changed with time is just SOOOOOO 🧍♂️
it is also brilliant to have logan be the one to talk wade through it because he went through the same thing centuries ago. and it's not pleasant but at least they can handle it together. (or the other way around? they have each other but it still sucks. depends on how you want to look at it i guess)
okay yeah anyway haha impeccable devastating writing everyone go read this fic i'm gonna fall over
favourite lines (also light spoilers):
“Hey, have I told you you're the hottest girl I've ever seen? Sex on legs, seriously, goddamn, run away with me.” (this is a sad line i promise)
"You have infinite second chances, sure, but only for yourself. Eventually the people you thought were gonna be there forever start dropping like flies, and you don't love the same anymore."
He thinks he knew, in that perennial moment when she curled her pinky around his, that he'd love her forever. His girl. His obligatory straight love interest for a few years, then his best friend forever.
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