Aug 27, 2008 16:10
[Not canonically accurate due to lack of transcripts. Simply put from the mun's imagination]
Matt really couldn't remember the last time he'd been this uncomfortable.
Well, no he could. It involved a few people ribbing him down at homocide. He'd expected people akin to Lennie Briscoe in New York and it was disconcerting to realize that most of them were-well- jerks. That must be why I'm doing this
He lowered his head. No. That's not why. His reason was small and brownhaired and named Molly and if the bastard was there...
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He is six years old and his mother is telling him that his father has gone away.
Matt's response isn't the typical six-year-old response. Boys were supposed to be devoted to their fathers. He'd found Maury Parkman entirely unsatisfactory however and the very idea of following that man anywhere-missing him-
"...He'll come back."
Matt remembers staring at his mother with the eyes of an adult. (she said that later, she was always saying things like that).
"Really? Damn." he practically tears at the carpet to get away-dropping in front of the TV and dropping out of the world.
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don't think about that it'll make it harder. Molly needed him now and he'd face his demons for her if anything.
He shifted his weight and glanced at his cabinmate, "...So why aren't we flying like normal people?"
Y'know, being in the belly of a cargo-jet isn't really high on Matt's list of "Things I want to do."
plot.