Sam/Maya

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I notice that all the recs so far in the het category of this year's recommendations week at lifein1973 are Sam/Maya. Now, that does please me. However, I also notice that all the recced fics (I've browsed them, not read them properly, because I'm in a bit of a hurry right now - shouldn't be posting here, either, really) are about them separating/about how the relationship really never worked properly. And, yeah, I've been having one hell of a difficult time writing my own Sam/Maya fic, myself.

I wonder: is it possible at all to write a *working* Sam/Maya relationship? Or does it always have to be broken from the start/broken beyond repair? Of course, with slash goggles firmly in place the obvious answer would be something like "it never worked and never will because Sam's actually gay, even if he doesn't realise it." But I sort of want to believe that what was wrong with the relationship was something *other* than just repressed homosexuality - something even more complicated, perhaps - that was wrong with Sam; something that may be fixed.

But is this me being too pollyanna to see reality?

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'moving on'

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(which used to be the title of one of my two AU fics, incidentally *g*, although it's now titled 'Möglichkeitssinn', referring to Robert Musil's 'sense of possibility' - yeah, a German title; will have to post an explanation of it with the fic.)

- I took that just to mean she wouldn't visit him anymore. And, sure, it probably means she considers herself open to the possibility of a new relationship; but not necessarily that she already has found one.