FICLET: Cover Story (Dick, VM)
Title: Cover Story
Author: houses_on_fire
Pairing/Character: Dick
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG, dark themes
Summary: Dick isn’t quite what he seems, but maybe that’s better for everyone.
Spoilers: Set after There’s Gotta Be A Morning After Pill
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of Veronica Mars. No copyright infringement is intended.
Dick Casablancas wasn’t nearly as stupid as people thought. Lazy? Yes. Stupid? Only by choice. People got away with treating him like a Golden Retriever because it was easy, and Dick has always liked the easy way out.
But that didn’t mean he couldn’t hear them when they whispered, the talk of teenaged transportation terrorists and the perpetual wondering whether he was anything like his brother, or his father, or his missing-but-presumed-dead-hottie of a step-mother. Dick sometimes wandered through an alcoholic haze wondering if Beaver and John Candy were having a laugh up there in crazy person heaven. How the Beaver only needed a train to complete the set, and keeping score: one plane, one automobile, countless bodies.
His brother was nothing if not efficiently motivated.
Dick wasn’t anything like anyone, and that was the way he liked it. Because if he decided to make something of himself one day, to be a real Casablancas instead of just a Dick, he might just find out that he had more of his father and brother in him than he would like. A bit of embezzlement here, some explosives, mayhem and murder there, and he’d be a chip off the old block.
So it was easier to ignore the looks, the brush-offs, the suspicions, and just down another beer. Because the day he decided to sober up and make something of himself was the day everyone was gonna sit up and take notice.
Hell, they might even have to run for cover.
Author: houses_on_fire
Pairing/Character: Dick
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG, dark themes
Summary: Dick isn’t quite what he seems, but maybe that’s better for everyone.
Spoilers: Set after There’s Gotta Be A Morning After Pill
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of Veronica Mars. No copyright infringement is intended.
Dick Casablancas wasn’t nearly as stupid as people thought. Lazy? Yes. Stupid? Only by choice. People got away with treating him like a Golden Retriever because it was easy, and Dick has always liked the easy way out.
But that didn’t mean he couldn’t hear them when they whispered, the talk of teenaged transportation terrorists and the perpetual wondering whether he was anything like his brother, or his father, or his missing-but-presumed-dead-hottie of a step-mother. Dick sometimes wandered through an alcoholic haze wondering if Beaver and John Candy were having a laugh up there in crazy person heaven. How the Beaver only needed a train to complete the set, and keeping score: one plane, one automobile, countless bodies.
His brother was nothing if not efficiently motivated.
Dick wasn’t anything like anyone, and that was the way he liked it. Because if he decided to make something of himself one day, to be a real Casablancas instead of just a Dick, he might just find out that he had more of his father and brother in him than he would like. A bit of embezzlement here, some explosives, mayhem and murder there, and he’d be a chip off the old block.
So it was easier to ignore the looks, the brush-offs, the suspicions, and just down another beer. Because the day he decided to sober up and make something of himself was the day everyone was gonna sit up and take notice.
Hell, they might even have to run for cover.