Numb3rs drabble: "1st Passages" (coda)
Dedicated to: Sororcula, who encouraged me to sit down and watch the episode.
Title: 1st Passages.
Pairing/Characters: Don.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 285
Spoilers: 12:01 AM
Summary: Don’s thoughts about the parallels in the episode - real and potential.
Warnings: My understanding of the passages probably aren’t actually Talmudic. (if they are, thank Luther)
Disclaimer: None of them are mine. Seriously. If you think they are, there’s a white coat waiting. ;)
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What was it Jeff Foxworthy said about lawn darts? Throw one in the air and catch it wrong, and you’ll get coloring books the rest of your life. Pretty much just like this case - you get hurt no matter what side you’re on. Words, not flowers, are going to be the only way for me and Robin to handle what this case brought up.
He who kills a man, has killed all of mankind.
If Julien killed once to impress his dad, to prove something to pops…then there wasn’t really a choice - bring him in and charge ‘im, or hope and pray to God that Julien never thinks to impress anybody else in his life. And those aren’t odds any of us would want.
And his dad… Sixty-four guys, killed by his order. Those orders damned the guys carrying out the orders just as much as the orders damned the guy who gave the orders. But while he who saves a man has saved all mankind, this guy never saved anyone - he just wasn’t guilty.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
If it had been Charlie who’d committed a murder, would I, his brother and protector, take the rap for him? He’d just done the one, and I’ve got a score and more under my belt.
Yeah, I’d take the heat for him. I’d do it knowing I’d survive in jail better than he would - knowing that Charlie wouldn’t murder again.
Slippery slope, I know. Julien’s dad probably figured the exact same thing: that he was more used to jail and its contents than the truly guilty party was…and what was one more - even a false one - after so many truths stacked against you?
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The end
Author’s note: I very nearly included the passage “my heart, my heart, do not testify against me”…but that’s the Funeral Texts, and thus Pharonic, not Talmudic or OT.
Title: 1st Passages.
Pairing/Characters: Don.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 285
Spoilers: 12:01 AM
Summary: Don’s thoughts about the parallels in the episode - real and potential.
Warnings: My understanding of the passages probably aren’t actually Talmudic. (if they are, thank Luther)
Disclaimer: None of them are mine. Seriously. If you think they are, there’s a white coat waiting. ;)
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What was it Jeff Foxworthy said about lawn darts? Throw one in the air and catch it wrong, and you’ll get coloring books the rest of your life. Pretty much just like this case - you get hurt no matter what side you’re on. Words, not flowers, are going to be the only way for me and Robin to handle what this case brought up.
He who kills a man, has killed all of mankind.
If Julien killed once to impress his dad, to prove something to pops…then there wasn’t really a choice - bring him in and charge ‘im, or hope and pray to God that Julien never thinks to impress anybody else in his life. And those aren’t odds any of us would want.
And his dad… Sixty-four guys, killed by his order. Those orders damned the guys carrying out the orders just as much as the orders damned the guy who gave the orders. But while he who saves a man has saved all mankind, this guy never saved anyone - he just wasn’t guilty.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
If it had been Charlie who’d committed a murder, would I, his brother and protector, take the rap for him? He’d just done the one, and I’ve got a score and more under my belt.
Yeah, I’d take the heat for him. I’d do it knowing I’d survive in jail better than he would - knowing that Charlie wouldn’t murder again.
Slippery slope, I know. Julien’s dad probably figured the exact same thing: that he was more used to jail and its contents than the truly guilty party was…and what was one more - even a false one - after so many truths stacked against you?
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The end
Author’s note: I very nearly included the passage “my heart, my heart, do not testify against me”…but that’s the Funeral Texts, and thus Pharonic, not Talmudic or OT.