Pure Bodies and Clean Hearts by Speranza (Virgin Challenge)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Title: Pure Bodies and Clean Hearts (26k)
Author: Speranza
Pairing: McShep
Summary: John gets a do-over.

Thanks to shalott, giddy, and res for beta beyond the call of duty.

Comments

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

Man sometimes I think it would be nice to get a do over, to go back to that moment and appreciate it properly. I also enjoyed the fact that you showed John viewing his life through less worldly eyes. In some ways the loss of a persons virginity is the perfect symbol of the headlong slide into the cynicism of adulthood.

Belatedly replying to say--

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

you showed John viewing his life through less worldly eyes. In some ways the loss of a persons virginity is the perfect symbol of the headlong slide into the cynicism of adulthood.

Yes, totally--and that's really why John was, for me, the obvious non-virgin: not so much even because of his sexuality, just that he has moments of seeming so deeply jaded.