Good Cookies: Prompt and Fill Post, Round One

[yagkyas_mod]

Good Cookie, definition: 1. Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal; 2. Generation Kill fanworks created for YAGKYAS. Can include short (under 1000 words) ficlets, drabbles, drawables, mixtapes, fanart, whatever!The Generation Kill fandom has been so very good - this year, and every year since our fandom invasion began. In celebration of this excellent

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[perpet_fic]

FILL:He’s on a business trip, tie halfway undone around his neck, suit jacket long ago left in his hotel room, shirt sleeves rolled up over his forearms. He looks, Ray thinks when he catches a glance of his reflection in the tinted windows that surround the hotel bar, like someone’s goddamn father

[impala_chick]

I like how they are both guarded but at the same time they fall back into their old friendliness. The banter!

Ray knows without asking that there’s way more to the story than that. He knows because he remembers getting out,
Gah, this gets to me.

[perpet_fic]

Thank you so much! It sort of went that way without my meaning it to, but I really liked it, so I'm glad you did, too.

[accol]

This is a little melancholy, but so vivid.

[perpet_fic]

Thank you! I actually tried for light-hearted, and the damn thing did this to me, so I'm glad it's got a good feel to it.

[dargai]

This is fantastic and so real. I can almost see them filming this as a 'Ten Years Later...' shot. You know, the most depressing part about this is these guys are just like every other third guy at a conference, who is sitting at a bar in an unfamiliar hotel and thinking, 'What the fuck. How is this my life? I need a drink." And then you contrast that with who they were at twenty-two and it's just... life. /might be having a slight existential crisis of my own that is contributing to the sadly beautiful.

[perpet_fic]

I'm having a bit of one myself, so I completely understand. I'm so happy you liked it.