Drabble: Loyalty
What with everything that's been going on, I've been neglecting my spring cleaning! Haven't had a chance to edit anything longer, so, here's a short one.
Title: Loyalty
Fandom: Life on Mars
Characters: Harry Outhwaite, Gene Hunt
Wordcount: 100
Notes: This snippet is what eventually evolved into Tin Star. My initial plan was to write something about young Gene from Harry Outhwaite's* POV, and then after getting about 97 words in I decided I would rather write something about Gene's experience of the incident from his perspective instead. I liked the idea of this scene, though, so it did turn up as a remembrance of Gene's at the beginning of Tin Star, including the final line. Since it was 97 words long when I rediscovered it, I tweaked it into a drabble. ETA: Now at AO3.
Harry knows who's pounding on the door and wonders why the bastard doesn’t break it down: it's more his style.
That's how they'd come to this, right enough. Because Gene Hunt had done what he always did, charging in without stopping to look or think. He'd always find a good excuse for it, after the fact. That’s why he's here now. Not to apologize for what he’s done, but to justify it to himself.
He opens the door just wide enough to shove the flask into Gene’s hands.
“You’ll need it,” he says, “when they find out what you’ve done."
*It occurs to me that I should go back and change 'Althwaite' to 'Outhwaite' now that the original spelling has been jossed by the shooting script...
Title: Loyalty
Fandom: Life on Mars
Characters: Harry Outhwaite, Gene Hunt
Wordcount: 100
Notes: This snippet is what eventually evolved into Tin Star. My initial plan was to write something about young Gene from Harry Outhwaite's* POV, and then after getting about 97 words in I decided I would rather write something about Gene's experience of the incident from his perspective instead. I liked the idea of this scene, though, so it did turn up as a remembrance of Gene's at the beginning of Tin Star, including the final line. Since it was 97 words long when I rediscovered it, I tweaked it into a drabble. ETA: Now at AO3.
Harry knows who's pounding on the door and wonders why the bastard doesn’t break it down: it's more his style.
That's how they'd come to this, right enough. Because Gene Hunt had done what he always did, charging in without stopping to look or think. He'd always find a good excuse for it, after the fact. That’s why he's here now. Not to apologize for what he’s done, but to justify it to himself.
He opens the door just wide enough to shove the flask into Gene’s hands.
“You’ll need it,” he says, “when they find out what you’ve done."
*It occurs to me that I should go back and change 'Althwaite' to 'Outhwaite' now that the original spelling has been jossed by the shooting script...