Title: Steady As She Goes (53/86)
Author: dak
Word Count: 781 this part; [97,685 overall]
Summary for Whole: After an accidental shooting at the station, Gene struggles to keep his team from tearing themselves apart while his and Sam's friendship is pushed to the limits.
Summary this Part: Gene brings Sam home.
Rating: still Blue-ish Cortina, uhm, what'
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Marvelous!
And poor Gene calling him "Stu".
Hope you have a good weekend!
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Have a good weekend. :)
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Lovely chapter. Thanks for getting it posted for us. (Love this story)
Have a good weekend :)
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Thank you!!
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First the "Gene nudged Sam forward. "What did we discuss?" He said sternly. She noticed he was using the fatherly voice he had always practiced but never needed. Sam shuffled forward on his command and wrapped his thin, damp arms around her waist, enveloping her in a tight hug.
" ‘M sorry," he whispered in her ear and she felt his body shake as he started to cry." which, luckily is both adorable and sad. Everything about Sam, Gene and the Missus's interaction in this part is too cute for words, but the practiced but unused fatherly voice broke me.
Then the missus gets to be all kinds of awesome with the "You broke your DI!" and you lull me into a fall sense of security with them being funny and adorable, until Gene has that slip up, and my heart breaks for so many reasons! He's still haunted by the ghost of Stu, and he thinks that fixing Sam will make up for it. I hate that he still hurts so much from his brother, but I think I hate even more that he's sort of doing this for Stu, not Sam. He should know and ( ... )
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