The Moment Our Greatness Flickers (The Love is a Losing Hand Remix) by boosette (PG-13)

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Fandom: STAR TREK REBOOT
Pairing: Leonard McCoy/Jocelyn McCoy
Length: 2264
Author on LJ: boosette
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:

For her painfully tragic and realistic description of the breakup of the McCoys marriage. And because it's a gorgeous piece of writing.

I've read some amazing remixes in the reboot ST fandom and this story is one of the many examples.  It's a remix of igrockspock's Love is a Losing Hand (which is also wonderful) and boosette takes the piece and turns into a journey from the very beginning to it's painful end in a precise and at times poetic way. The realism though is probably why I really enjoyed this story.  I could see people I know in the voices of Jocelyn and Bones. People who fall breathtakingly fast into love and those who slowly grow apart because of time and work or something else. People who stay on because of duty or the for the sake of their child thinking that it will get better or somehow they can endure it.  And boosette manages to convey all that perfectly in a few snippets. 

The Moment Our Greatness Flickers (The Love is a Losing Hand Remix)

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[almightychrissy.livejournal.com]

She is just so, so good.