Update Link: Ricochet, Chapter Ten

Happy Thursday! I’m prepping this post on Wednesday, and looking forward to a relaxing couple of days. I have a doctor’s appointment on Thursday for my ear situation, so I’m taking the entire day off instead of rushing around, trying to get coverage, making arrangements — I have the sick time. I’m using it. Tomorrow, I’m going to work on some editing and grading in the morning before the appointment in the afternoon.

In other news, I’ve picked the project I’m going to work on next. It might not be one many of you guys are interested in because it’s Alternate Universe, but I really feel like I need a break from the show and it’s internal canon. I need something a bit — well, not lighter, but just outside of things. The project is Smoke and Mirrors, and here’s a synopsis below:

AU. Long ago, a woman scorned placed a curse on the women of the Soltini family. For generations, no woman birthed a son or lived long enough to see her daughters reach adulthood. Some have come close to breaking the curse, but all have failed.

For most of her life, Elizabeth Webber thought she and her cousins had finally escaped the family curse. Her sons were the first born to a Soltini woman in living memory. Cursed with the gift of empathy and healing, life has not been kind to Elizabeth. Devastated and heartbroken, she fled her family long ago.

She left behind cousins Robin Scorpio and Nadine Crowell, each cursed with powers of their own. Envious of Elizabeth’s gift for healing, aspiring doctor Robin could always tell the truth of the situation, but her pride and jealousy often blinded her to reality. Though she wanted peace between her cousins, Nadine’s power of reading memories too often overwhelmed her and she retreated.

The cousins have gone their separate ways until one day when the pentagram marking the curse appears on Elizabeth and Nadine’s palms. Why has the curse returned? Why has it spared Robin? Elizabeth has no choice but to return to Port Charles, to the cousins and family she fled, and the man that broke her heart.

If that sounds a bit familiar, it should. It’s a plot bunny I’ve been playing with off and on for a few years, and I’m just ready to give it a go. I’ve got some other news about how the work process is going to go but I need to work it out in my head a bit more before I finalize the plans. I’ll see you guys on Friday!

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