FanFic in Da House ...

[dodger_winslow]

Okay. So here's the deal. I'd love to blame this fanfic to Person of Interest winning the People's Choice award for Best New TV Show so as to make myself look all prescient and shit, but the simple truth is, this bitch has been torturing me night and day since Number's Crunch aired. It's gone from 23 pages, down to 9 pages, up to 18 pages, and

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[dodger_winslow]

Thanks! I did a little presupposing on undefined bits of canon to find a foundation for Reese's perspective in this one, musing on the potentials of what really happened to Kara, and what Snow's participation in her demise might have been, put me on the road to thinking some of the same things that hit me hardest in my initial viewing of the episode, foremost amongst those being the difference between Reese's predominantly "can't hold it against her" stance on Carter's culpability for her actions as conveyed by his stairwell "Yeah, well, they're clever like that" juxtaposed against that sneering lip curl Caveziel laid on her in the car.

Made me start digging into the idea that maybe Reese DID kill Kara (my thinking to that point in time being that he was more likely framed for killing her than having actually done so), and he did so because she betrayed him much along the lines of how Carter just betrayed him. And how that might lead to a Reese who, when he's being all logical about things, understands that Carter was just a pawn in Snow's manipulative games, so you really can't blame her for what she did, thinking she was doing the right thing. But when he's more emotionally deconstructed, he'd like as not to kill her not off his rancor for HER actions, but rather off carrying around some hefty baggage from another betrayal about which he is far less likely to be logical than bitterly dangerous.

Nothing quite as much fun as watching a man like Reese lash out at someone over his own baggage when, were he to more calmly consider things, he'd be the first to admit his bitchslapping isn't deserved by the one who gets it in another's stead.

I kinda love that fallibility in a heroically inclined badass, so seeing a chance to play Reese to that particular fiddle, I kinda had to grab it and run with it if for no other reason than to see where it lead.