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gryphonrhi

I know what I'm doing tomorrow...

Dec 30, 2012 23:30

My favorite Highlander has a birthday coming up -- his 495th, to be precise. (Connor MacLeod, born January 1st, 1518; still with us. What fourth movie?) So I thought I'd spend the day before Connor's birthday writing short fics* -- a few sentences, three or four paragraphs -- if you guys wanted to give me prompts, other characters for him to ( Read more... )

fandoms: due south, characters: connor, fandoms: marvel, memes, writing: story ideas, fandoms: highlander

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Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 07:13:59 UTC

Connor grinned despite himself. "It's an attempt at food." He nodded, though. "They can catch up to wherever we've gotten by then." He glanced across his line, meeting the eyes of his walking wounded, and saw that none of them wanted to go off in a strange SUV. Good. He'd thought he had a surprisingly sensible force.

Carter smiled a little. "Like I said. SHIELD would love to talk to any of you later about a possible job." She looked directly at Connor. "You most urgently, however."

"Lost a few today, did you?" Connor shook his head. "I like my life. And I'll be busy enough helping with clean-up on this side of things."

Carter watched him, then her attention slid away for a moment. She nodded, one finger up along her ear and said to someone else, "No, sir." She listened for a few seconds, then nodded. "Understood." She focused on Connor again and pointed to the end of the street. "National Guard reinforcements in four." She reached for her pocket, then slowed, watching Connor carefully. "Business cards only."

He held his katana steady and said, "So long as they are."

She handed them over to him, nodded politely, and asked, "Anything we can do for you until the army gets here?"

"We'll be fine," Connor said calmly. "And you'll be calling?"

Her smile was almost as sharp-edged as his for a moment. "When you're not quite this busy, yes, sir. We do want to discuss what you know about HYDRA."

Connor just looked at her. "I imagine you do." To his surprise, she was willing to leave it at that. She even left with her other agents. He was willing to bet they now had pictures of everyone, but with all the CCTV in Manhattan, that had been a sure bet already.

Connor passed the business cards down the line because he suspected more than a few of them needed a steady job, gave them a few seconds more to catch their breaths and steady the wounded, then said, "Let's see how far we can clear in three minutes, people."

From his left flank, Jewel said grimly, "You're in trouble, sir. They took no for an answer."

Connor snorted. "We're all, in trouble, lass. They didn't demand the weaponry back immediately. Call me if you have trouble or they won't take no for an answer."

"Can you do anything if they won't?" Kai asked, worried but eyes and probably mind still on the job at hand.

"I'll manage if I have to." Connor smiled, trading predatory grins with some of them. "We made it through the aliens. We'll manage everything else."

"With coffee first, please, God," Masoyi mock-groaned, playing it up for laughs and getting them as they went back to work.

Somehow, Connor didn't think it'd be too long before he got another visit -- but he'd time it, too, to see how badly this SHIELD had been hurt in the attacks. Sean was considering working for them, after all.

Maybe they'd trade him some solid new identities for the benefit of his experience....

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 keerawa January 1 2013, 07:36:28 UTC

Fantastic! I can imagine Connor forming a cohesive unit out of any civilians he came across who weren't panicking. After all, back in the day, it wasn't just professionals who responded in a crisis - it was everyone.

I particularly like the detail about him passing out the business cards an noticing that someone of the lads and lasses with him needed a steady job.

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 20:32:41 UTC

::wry:: If it's roughly modern time, I imagine several of them *do* need better/steadier jobs. And they've just put their lives on the line; he thinks they deserve better.

And yeah, Connor's lived through the days of volunteer militias, and fire brigades. ::amused:: He went because he wasn't sure the city'd make it if people didn't, and he organized because he knew what he was doing. I *liked* his lads and lasses! Some great people in that line of his.

Glad you liked it and thank you for such a neat prompt!

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 springwoof January 1 2013, 09:53:07 UTC

That was wonderful! I liked Connor balancing risk and duty, even as he decided on duty and went to defend his city. And I liked that he was able to quickly form an impromptu army, and find roles for all the people in it, fighters or not.

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 20:29:14 UTC

Connor knows major threats when he sees and hears them, so, yeah, he went. He'll cope with everything as he finds it/figures it out. But he couldn't have been the only one out there trying to help, so he organized as he went and tried to keep them alive where he could.

Yeah, I liked the one Buddhist who just went, "I'm sorry, I can't shoot them. But I can watch your backs while you stop them hurting others." Connor thought offering to walk *backwards* into enemy fire was insanely brave and immediately said yes.

Anyway: short version -- thank you, I'm glad you liked it too!

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Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 3 2014, 04:57:20 UTC

Now I have this image of Thor slugging down boom-boom and calling it a mighty drink; another! ::giggling:: Thank you for the image!

And yeah. I probably will revisit it. ::amused:: I have to figure out a timeline for that!

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