FK Fanfic: "Method in Her Madness"

[brightknightie]

I wrote this for odditycollector in the 2010/2011 fandom_stocking event.  My thanks to natmerc for beta-reading.

The idea for this vignette came when Odditycollector's observation that Natalie is "a mad scientist at heart" overlapped the brief history of the science of chirality in The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean, which I was reading at the time.

	•  Title:	"Method in Her Madness" (also on AO3)
	•  Length:	~850 words
	•  Date:	Fandom Stocking 01/06/11, FKFic-L 03/08/11
	•  Rating:	G
	•  Summary:	Natalie has a new theory of Nick's condition, but she needs his help.
	•  Characters:	Natalie, Nick
	•  Quotation:	"'Well, it turns out you were right all along.' Natalie took a deep breath. 'You're dead.'"

Comments

[lastscorpion]

Oh, I just loved this! Mad!Scientist!Nat is my favorite kind!

[brightknightie]

Thank you very much! It's very generous of you to read and comment so quickly; I appreciate it.

I had not previously thought of Natalie as the horror genre's "mad scientist" archetype, but the idea clicked right into place when I read Odditycollector's observation. :-) Natalie fills a lot of different roles as FK shifts from genre to genre, and "mad scientist" is definitely one of them! In fact, it gives her much more leeway, where otherwise we're deploring her insupportable methods when we hold her to the somewhat more realistic standards of the police procedural genre.