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tigertrapped September 15 2010, 16:53:36 UTC
Nice of Vaughn to keep it all this time. Maybe he has a bag fetish?

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hestia8 September 15 2010, 16:55:47 UTC
No, no, no, he bought this one ESPECIALLY. To taunt Lucas.

This is the best storyline EVER. Bonus points if Vaughn goes around screwing up people's lives as a hobby and Lucas isn't even important to him.

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tigertrapped September 15 2010, 17:03:14 UTC
I want it to be a battered blue Globetrotter. I shall be disappointed if it's a tartan granny holdall, but it would be hilarious. I'm torn between loving this idea so much I want to write fic before I've even seen it - and wanting to laugh myself silly. Only in Spooks does this stuff happen (to me, I mean).

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hestia8 September 15 2010, 17:06:42 UTC
Isn't it the suitcase in the trailer? (old and brown and battered, I believe)

It is a great idea and completely hilarious, which is a Spooks speciality, I find.

PLEASE WRITE FIC.

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tigertrapped September 15 2010, 17:19:43 UTC
Rewatched trailer using pause. The Suitcase of Angst is brown and very 70s. It has the following items:

Headphones (? or possibly a sex toy of some kind)
Poker chips (ooh, past life as a gambling addict?)
EC passport
A VCR tape??
Photos of Lucas with a bad haircut (past life as an 80s popstar??)
Mysterious manila folder of doom

For starters...

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hestia8 September 15 2010, 17:40:54 UTC
the vcr tape probably means they're coming to mine, unless someone else in london has a working vcr.

Poker chips? Oooh, intriguing. Also, inception crossover potential.

Have fic in head for vaughn and suitcase of angst. Will get dond asap as will jar with canon.

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tigertrapped September 15 2010, 18:41:01 UTC
Damn. Wish I'd not thrown out my VCR now...

The poker chips made me sigh. It's such an... obvious route. But now you mention Inception crossover fic and I'm smiling.

Please to do writing suitcase fic, Han.

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hestia8 September 15 2010, 19:34:19 UTC
1. Has just occurred to me that this is tom's 'hello, real me' box BUT REAL. Amazing.

2. I think it could be excellent if that is why she doesn't want to talk to him, if he disappeared because he had gambling debts. I would quite like to see lucas try to talk his way out of it.

3. On it!

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tigertrapped September 16 2010, 06:53:27 UTC
In one of my recent fics I had someone insist that all Lucas' quiet, careful habits were acquired for survival reasons in the Russian jail, that before Moscow he was as noisy as the rest of the gang (chiefly, Adam). The gambling past fits with this theory, beautifully.

I like your tangential thought re Tom. Was Lucas a gambler when he and Tom met? Can't wait for the fic, Han!

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hestia8 September 16 2010, 07:49:39 UTC
Yes, excellent theory, I think it fits (which fic is that? I am - as ever - behind).

I think it could different ways depending on whether Lucas had gambling debts which he ran away from, or a gambling addiction. if he had debts and left Maya to face them, well. That will be interesting. But if he had a gambling addiction, that kind of fits with the career choice, and also I was considering this morning - whichever it was, he walked away and left this girl and walked into a job where he was saving *everyone* to make up for it. Oh, the angst.

I love this show.

I had written half a fic, and then I saw a picture of Vaughn, and the fic will now have to be junked, as all my assumptions about Vaughn, what he looked like, how he dressed etc were WAY off. Which is part of the danger of writing fic based on spoilers and not just waiting for the actual show *headdesk*

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tigertrapped September 16 2010, 14:22:33 UTC
The fic was one of those long Max/Spooks fics, with undead!Adam:

http://tigertrapped.livejournal.com/484353.html#cutid1

Please to be pointing towards Vaughn photos?

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hestia8 September 16 2010, 14:37:46 UTC
Danke!

It was in zulu-ottawa's post that I linked to elsewhere...here you go: http://zulu-ottawa.livejournal.com/14727.html. I am quite upset with myself for all the assumptions now. And also intrigued.

ETA: also in that post: TARIQ YAY.

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tigertrapped September 16 2010, 16:11:05 UTC
Excellent, but like you I assumed Vaughn would be suited and booted and sinister, not shabby. Nice twist. Tariq is adorable.

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