A Copper's Instinct: Chapter 12

[marshwiggledyke]

Title: A Copper's Instinct
Fandom: Hot Fuzz
Characters/Pairings: Nicholas/Danny, Nicholas/OC, Doris, Bob, Andes, Saxon, Turners, OC
Rating: PG-15

Comments

[freudian_lisp]

Aw, poor Kinell. No. Bad Kinell, with all your freudian excuses and manipulative behavior! You kind of had it coming, guy

[marshwiggledyke]

It's because our Amy, though woefully underused, is awesome, dude!

Shaaaaame.

He's totally going to use that collar as a human and a wolf. It'll just be hidden beneath the collar of his work uniform, because he's turned it into a symbol of self-respect in his mind- see how he turned around the funny on his team by taking it seriously as a present? One wonders whether Kinnell would eventually earn his own collar from Nicholas. After all, there is already very interesting and convenient footage of John Simm in a pretty red one around his neck...

You are most certainly welcome!

[waffleguppies]

You had to go and mention the very interesting and convenient footage of John Simm in a pretty red collar, didn't you.

Now I have to go have a cold shower.

if you insist...

[marshwiggledyke]

[storyfan]

Of course Nick's mum will like Danny. What mum wouldn't?

This is an excellent wrapup to a terrific story. The collar bit at the end is a bit of genius. The collar is a symbol of ownership which would have been humiliating if it were buckled on against his will. But he allowed Doris to buckle it on, thereby taking ownership of it himself. He wears it because he wants to, not because he has no choice.

I've enjoyed reading all of this. Kudos for all your hard work.

[marshwiggledyke]

Danny is nervous because he's used to Sandfordian mums. He doesn't realize that Amy is a football fan, flinty as Nicholas at his best, and shares a love of marmite drink and a few glasses of wine. Amy would adore him as a son-in-law.

:D! Thus, Nicholas owns himself, and finally, finally accepts what he is, without the fear of 'They'. Your little well-thought-out comment seriously lit up my day. I thought the collar thing was good, though maybe not the best place to leave it- but you made just the right little shove about the foundations of that thought so everything creaked right into firm, perfect place, and now I couldn't imagine a better way to end it. Thank you! Thank you!

[random_nexus]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!
*muppetflails of congratulatory glee*

There it is, bebe, BAM! Done and damned spiffy! Enjoyed going through it again, and y'all did a fine job, indeed.

I still am eyeing Kinnell and the wood chipper with evil thoughts, but I'll let him slide for now. . . . For now. *evil grin*

<3

[marshwiggledyke]

^___^

You're awesome.

[soul_bonnie]

Excellent end to an excellent fic. I admit I had my doubts at first but you could really pull it off, amazing!

And bonus points for the Spaced, or rather Tim/Mike reference! WIN!

[marshwiggledyke]

Well, it wasn't a drag-you-in sort of beginning, more like a slowly-submerging-to-your-neck-because-the-water-is-so-cold. It probably wouldn't appeal to a broad range of Fuzz fans, because the Danny/Nicholas isn't stable for most of it, there's a Gary-Stuing OC inserted into the office dynamic, and the Andes don't appear a great deal, except in the background (They do have a sort of story going on there, both of them scared of the other liking Kinnell more that ends in a fistfight- that Cartwright wins. This upsets their dynamic even more, because Wainwright is the one who is supposed to be the winner-of-fights, and is only resolved when Cartwright earns his own black eye taking down Kinnell).

But we did think it a story worth telling, so we told it as best we could, and I'm so glad you stuck it out and enjoyed it.

Spaced! (I threw in a rather awful Life on Mars shoutout earlier, but I'm kind of embarrassed about it.)

[soul_bonnie]

That was the good thing about it. You didn't drop it on the reader like "Boom! Nicholas is a werewolf, deal with it!"

I liked the thing with the Andes (and I totally got it from the text :D). They don't have to be the centre of attention all the time and Nick's and Danny's relationship doesn't have to be stable for a story to be great. You did something new and that's the amazing thing about it! :D

[marshwiggledyke]

The Boom Nicholas Werewolf bit is in the prequel, we couldn't have relied on that as a plot for this story as well, we'd get just as bored as you readers. We needed newness, and threw in a healthy amount of angst a la mikes_grrl for good measure.

One of my favorite moments, rereading what we've written, is the part where Cartwright speaks up on behalf of Nicholas. The Andes may be rather backgroundy in this fic, but Cartwright speaks up for Nicholas. That's primary interaction, that is, and says a lot, coming from an Andy.

[fearcat]

omg I love both storeis, oh please write more :)
I would so love to see Nick's mum :) and Kinnell again hehe

[marshwiggledyke]

We have written more, but this is probably where it publicly ends.

I'll give you a spoiler for it though: Nick and Alex take down Alpha, all by themselves, and the whole world learns that werewolves exist. And it is epic.