Fic: Show Some Respect, by Jean_Geanie, Blue Cortina, (sam/gene)
Title: Show Some Respect
Author: jean_geanie
Pairing: implied Sam/Gene
Word Count: 430
Rating: Blue Cortina (PG-13)
Warning: More shakespeare!crack, I should really stop.
Summary: Gene takes Sam to see a play, naturally they argue.
“Oh thank God it's over, for a second there I honestly thought I would have to take one of the ushers hostage to get out.”
"You know, you make it sound like I forced you to watch Skelton and Carling performing it."
"At least that would have been amusing. Anything to spare me those long-winded monologues that just drone on and on and-"
"Oi, that's Will Shakespeare you're talking about, show some respect."
"- and that's the other thing, I don’t see what's so tragic about it. The villains all die, the rightful king ascends to the throne. Sounds like happily ever after to me."
"Macbeth was a good man!"
"Yeah a wonderful man who just happened to have a penchant for stabbin' people in the back."
"That's whole point of it yer twat! It wasn't a "habit" of 'is until after 'e met the witches. Macbeth was a bloody magnificent soldier, well respected and 'onourable. But it all fell apart because 'e 'ad all that ambition. That's the tragedy. That 'e couldn't overcome it. That 'e killed Duncan and condemned 'imself!"
"So what you’re saying is that Macbeth is a flawed hero. I 'spose that makes his wife Mother Teresa?"
"Mother who? No, doesn't matter, don't wanna know. Anyway yer wrong again Tyler. Macbeth's wife was a mean slag, the bint deserved everythin' she got."
"Ah there's you bein' chauvaunistic again! It takes two to tango! Even if his wife egged him on it was still his decision."
"But 'e regretted it, wanted Duncan to wake up straight after."
"Yeah and then he went on to kill Banquo and have Macduff's family slaughtered."
"But 'e still could 'ave been a good man, if 'e never saw the witches. At the end Macbeth knows that 'e's done for but ‘e keeps fightin’. 'e redeems 'imself by not surrenderin' and by dying 'onourably. Shows all that wasted potential. Try telling me that's not tragic."
"That's not tragic, that's bloody insane! Only you would think that choosing to die in a blaze of glory would redeem a man for slaughterin' almost every other character in the piece. This isn't so much about Shakespeare as it is about your Clint Eastwood obsession."
"You're impossible! Next time I'm goin' by meself."
"Aw don't sulk Guv."
"Shame really, the next one was right up your alley. There’s a fairy boy that comes in where ‘e isn’t wanted and starts causin’ all kinds of trouble. An’ then there’s these twats gettin’ high and makin’ fools of themselves an’ at the end no one is really sure if they’re dreamin’ or not."
"And just which one of the Bard's illustrious works is that supposed to be?"
"You figure it out smart arse I'm off to the pub."