OC Fic: True Colors

[chaseii]

Title:  True Colors

One-Shot

Characters: (Frank Atwood, Julie Cooper & thier son)

Author:  ChaseII

Story Rating: PG-13(?) (coarse language)

Disclaimer: The OC Universe, with all its assorted characters, belongs to Josh Schwartz, et. al. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended, nor is any money being made.

AN:  Unbeta'd -- as always, all

Comments

[famous99]

That's finished? Yikes. Talk about a cliff hanger. Worse than the lady and the tiger.
This is the Frank I imagine. Not the one they tried to paint on The O.C. Reformed! Hah. I think not.
Thanks for sharing.

[chaseii]

This is the Frank I imagine. Not the one they tried to paint on The O.C. Reformed! Hah. I think not.

Perfectly put. 'Hah' indeed!

Many thanks.

[yessi_5]

I love it when Frank's evil. Cause that's what he is. Maybe he could trick the writers' of "The OC", but not us!
But I'm quite sure Julie is stronger than Dawn, so that there will be hell to pay for Frank.

I really liked this - and it didn't even have Ryan in it ;-)

[chaseii]

I love it when Frank's evil. Cause that's what he is. Maybe he could trick the writers' of "The OC", but not us! Frank is evil, isn't he? So glad we see through him!

Julie is stronger than Dawn, and she's got Gordon who has both the means and the money to make Frank pay dearly. I just hope he doesn't kill her...

[thekiller00]

I could see something like that happened, I mean he is Ryan and Trey's biological father after all !!!!!!!!!

[chaseii]

Oh, yes. Frank Atwood is an evil man -- I don't buy into any true 'reformation'. Given time, he'll return to form.

Thanks for reading.

[beachtree]

Ah, so you did write this. I'll confess to not being overly keen on reading about what I've classified as TPTB's 'mythical relationship and result' (meaning anything Frank/Julie-related after the "Dads" including biological evidence sts), but you piqued my interest with just how leopard Frank would display his spots for all to see

[chaseii]

Hee. I know how you feel about the whole Julie/Frank/Baby contrivance, and I thoroughly understand where you're coming from. I hated it, too -- it laid waste to so much of Ryan's backstory, dismissing Frank's abusive and violent history. Still, much though I loathe it, it's canon. *I'm looking at you, Josh*

And not only is it canon, we see them still together through at least Julie's graduation from college... *shudders* I can only surmise that TPTB want us to think Frank kept his act together at least that long, although I find that hard to swallow

[beachtree]

Yep, we're on the same page. I'll admit to not having a clue what TPTB were possibly thinking about 98% of the time. I'm still not sure how Julie (whom I'm not remotely invested in or don't care nearly enough about to even want to analyze or discuss)jumped from actually seeming to be concerned about Ryan on some level when she wanted to warn the Cohens, to being attracted to someone with Frank's proven track record- one that he continued to reinforce by displaying the same traits to lesser degrees, to becoming involved with him, having his child and then to continue the relationship

[60schic]

What frightens me most about this is how completely you got into Frank's head. So very plausible and accurate. That he feels he has to make her *see* why he had to do it is so pathetic because he really does believe it himself. But Frank is a fool if he thinks Julie will put up with this as Dawn did. One mark on her face and he may as well kill her because he'll be a dead man just the same.

*pets poor Ryan Barrett*

[chaseii]

Sometimes I scare myself -- Frank is a very dark head to get inside, but ironically it's sort of freeing to write from that place. There is little in the way of scrupples or set moral code to restrict his thoughts or actions.

But Frank is a fool if he thinks Julie will put up with this as Dawn did. One mark on her face and he may as well kill her because he'll be a dead man just the same. Couldn't agree more!

So many thanks for reading!