Philippe interferes, part ii

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Well, I think I've just finished the story... complete with an unintended epilogue, which was the result of Raoul's thoroughly running away with the end of the previous chapter and completely ruining the structure of it in the process! In the end I decided the only thing to do was to cross it out and write a completely new scene to salvage the usable bits of dialogue: as with The Choices of Raoul, it was a somewhat scary experience because not only did I not have a pre-written plot, unlike in that Epilogue I didn't even know what the outcome was going to be. On the other hand, this did give me a chance to fill in some of the background that was only hinted at in Chapter 3.

I'm not entirely happy with these last two chapters -- the third being a rather silly gimmick which was left over from the plot's origins as a humour fic, while Raoul spends the entirety of the epilogue in a chair repeatedly pulling Christine to sit back down -- but they will probably do. The first two chapters I think are rather good of their kind...