Thinking about Hurt/Comfort, Post #9

As an itinerant in fandom these days, passing through the distant byways of various rarepairs in small fandoms but never tarrying, I have a problem when I want hurt/comfort fic. (Or when I want to write it.)

I don't know who to write, basically.

Much as I love Giles/Anya, I wrote them for so long that I don't have any hurt/comfort scenarios left to explore. (I wrote fics where Giles is hurt, I wrote fics where Anya is hurt, it was a whole subgenre.) My last fics were Dalgliesh/Kate, but I don't know that I want to do h/c for them. Who should it be?

I am craving hurt/comfort fic because I am tired and burned out, basically. I wonder why and when other readers (or writers) seek h/c, too, but that's always been my impetus. It then matters who's getting the comfort, too. I always loved it when Anya was valued enough to comfort, for instance.

It makes me think too about Sayers's "Vane Quartet," especially Have His Carcase, where Harriet is the one who needs soothing but who resents it mightily when Peter tries. Some characters just have to get to a point where they'll accept it, and it takes a while....

So here's a teeny ficlet for a character who has a surprisingly hard time accepting care (Mycroft/Anthea, established relationship, guess which one...):

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Cheers for your weekend, and may you find the comfort you need!