Dollhouse Fic: "Getting the Wake-Up Call" (Ballard, DeWitt/Dominic, PG-13)

[demonqueen666]

The seriously considered alternate title for this segment was "Clue-By-Four". As in, "Paul finally gets whacked over the head by a".

Title: Getting the Wake-Up Call
Characters: Ballard, Topher, DeWitt, Dominic, Langton, mention of others; DeWitt/Dominic with passing mention of Topher/Ivy and Ballard/Madeline
Rating: PG-13 for mild sexual

Comments

[derevko_child]

I've never been SO happy to have skipped class.

OMG, PAUL. You dense hot man. I was laughing so hard at his confusion. OMG. PAUL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Slowly, gradually, with very wide eyes, he leans ever so slightly to the left.

He can just see into Dominic’s bedroom. And what he sees is Adelle DeWitt, sitting on the opposite side of the unmade bed with her back to the door. He gets a glimpse of pale skin as she pulls a shirt on over her head.

Dominic follows his gaze, and then takes a purposeful step back so he’s blocking Paul’s view with his body, giving a dark glare.

It’s all Paul can do to stand there.

“She’s…you’re…you two are…oh. Oh.”

ROTFLMAO. (eljay needs smiley faces that moves)

AND THIS!

It’s downright amazing, her ability to look so collected and commanding while sitting there with sleep-mussed hair and wearing an oversized navy blue t-shirt with a faded picture of Snoopy hugging Woodstock.
OH THE IMAGERY. <3

All he can really conclude is that they either must care about each other a lot, or it must be really, really

[demonqueen666]

OMG, PAUL. You dense hot man. I was laughing so hard at his confusion. OMG. PAUL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Hee hee. Well, if we were only going to get one more laugh out of his obliviousness, I wanted it to be a good one!

OH THE IMAGERY. <3

I'm glad you liked it. I had to include it, because it made me smile :)

Both, Paul. BOTH.

Well...I think that's implied in there. Somewhere. Kinda sorta.

Thanks so much for commenting! I'm glad you liked it :P

(Charity Brigade's coming, isn't she?

GODDAMMIT, how did you guess??)

[aka_katya]

OMG! THIS! I LOVES IT!

He thinks he feels the same emotion he might if a complete stranger walked up to him on the street and, without introduction or warning, slapped him right in the face.

lolz! Ballard's reaction is a thing of beauty!

“I’m sorry; who did you work for again, before you came to us? Something about the Federal Bureau of…oh, I always forget that last word.”

hee hee.

and Oh-Uh I don't like the sound of The Center coming in to look into the
affairs of the dollhouse....isn't it enough that they have to deal with the NSA totally plotting their destruction?

[demonqueen666]

Ballard's reaction is a thing of beauty!

Well, good to know it hopefully lived up to all of your expectations, then! ;)

Oh-Uh I don't like the sound of The Center coming in to look into the affairsof the dollhouse....isn't it enough that they have to deal with the NSA totally plotting their destruction?

Pffft, of course not! It's not enough unless you have disaster caving in on you from all sides.
...But hey, how badly could it go? Oh, wait. Right.

Thanks for the comment :D

[shi_naynay]

Aw, Paul went out and finally bought himself a clue! I admit, I'm going to miss all the blatant talk of D/D, and Paul just not. getting. it. Because, seriously, how do you not get it? lol His reaction, though. BEST. Oh, Paul, you lovable buffoon. I want to pat him on the head, he is just so precious.

wearing an oversized navy blue t-shirt with a faded picture of Snoopy hugging Woodstock.

Dom's love of Snoopy returns!!!! HEEEE.

Adelle's calling the Center? I have a bad feeling. Bad, bad, bad.

[demonqueen666]

Aw, Paul went out and finally bought himself a clue! I admit, I'm going to miss all the blatant talk of D/D, and Paul just not. getting. it.

They were on sale, evidently.

But seriously, as much as part of me is pained to bring this particular phase of the saga to a close, I feel it was time. There's only so long you can milk a particular gag, after all...and only so long you can portray someone as conveniently clueless until they just seem sort of mentally disabled.

Dom's love of Snoopy returns!!!!

A-yup. Yes it did :D

I have a bad feeling. Bad, bad, bad.

*whistles, does not make eye contact, and says nothing*

[demonqueen666]

Something tells me that both of those guys have far more similarities than either want to admit to.

There's this meta essay I have in the back of my head that I never have the time or will to flesh out and articulate, about how Langton, Ballard and Dominic are all on some extent the same guy, or at least the same type of guy - the law and order type drawn to working for the Dollhouse despite their own inate feeling of moral superiority over it, how to some extent they're all trying to fight it and losing...and the level of success and the ultimate fate they have is reflexive of other things in their character, how good a measure they have of themselves.

(...Wow. Don't know where the hell all THAT came from o_O)

Can't it be both? Because it's totally both! Ah, perceptive Paul.

Perceptive Paul is perceptive. Lol.

Thanks for the comment!

[dollsome]

Ahahahaha! Oh, Ballard! He is my favourite of all FBI agents, with his mad skills -- like, sorry, Mulder and Scully, nobody can top this guy. His adorable confusion! And, oh man, I love that Adelle still manages to be completely glorious and in control even when woken up at her boyfriend's house in the middle of the night. THAT'S OUR LADY. Return of Snoopy, yay! Shoulder touching, awwww. And I cannot wait to see where these new Housey plot developments take us, even though I get the sense that it is going to be somewhere bad.

[demonqueen666]

Oh, Ballard! He is my favourite of all FBI agents, with his mad skills -- like, sorry, Mulder and Scully, nobody can top this guy. His adorable confusion!

He is AMAZING, isn't he? I mean, his powers of observation know no bounds XD

And, oh man, I love that Adelle still manages to be completely glorious and in control even when woken up at her boyfriend's house in the middle of the night. THAT'S OUR LADY.

Hells ya. Hey, we all know she's the mothereffin' HBIC.

Return of Snoopy, yay!

Hee hee. Well, if you like Snoopy enough to have a coffee mug, youprobably like him enough to own a few other things right? (I'm sure somewhere, tucked away, is the Snoopy-print tie he never wears, that he bought just for yhe lolz.) Of course, I'm wondering what Adelle's reaction was when she first saw that shirt...

And I cannot wait to see where these new Housey plot developments take us, even though I get the sense that it is going to be somewhere bad.

I might be humming Otep's "Special Pets" to myself. Not gonna lie.