FIC: The Dog at His Command (Tony, Gibbs, Victorian)

[sequitur_fic]

Okay, after this, I promise I'll stop bombarding you all with fic for a while, because we're to the end of what I have already written. But people were asking during Gentlemen of Last Resort about why Mr. Anthony is so often "Mad" Mr. Anthony, and this might go towards explaining that. Then there will be a little bit of a break, while I try to

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[anonymous]

Ahhh, it's Requiem! Hey, are you going to do us a jinormous favor and re-write ALL of the NCIS episodes in Victorian-verse? Or just the Tony whump ones?

By the way, I had a good giggle when you posted the Back to the Future story the other night. I'd just gotten back from a Jukebox the Ghost concert, which doesn't mean anything except that they had totally played a cover of Huey Lewis & The News' "Power of Love," which is to say, the song from Back to the Future. It was like, woo, meta.

- celestial (again)

[sequitur_fic]

Great catch with Requiem--absolutely what I was thinking of. And ooh, I don't know. There are so many possibilities for Victorian versions of the Tony whump episodes, at least. Frame Up? Under Covers? It's mind-expanding, but intimidating. I must consider it.

And it's always weird when real life echoes stuff like that--I'll add it to my growing list of evidence that I secretly control the universe.

[anonymous]

Do you also control Criminal Minds? Because they did an episode this week that was quite similar to Requiem. Only they had TWO federal agents to save ONE blond college girl who reminded somebody of his daughter, rather than the other way around. And neither of them had had the plague.

[sequitur_fic]

I think I control Criminal Minds only to the extent that my love for Reid makes them whump him all the time so people can emote over him. Seriously, between Reid and Tony, the "who has it worst" battle would be intense. (Also Hotch, of course--he should definitely be in the running, since I love him too, and he also suffers beautifully.)

[anonymous]

I love Reid-whump too, and I love when the writers make him suffer but not when they make him suffer via bad haircuts. Hotch is just a little too intense for me but still, he's practically Bubbles the Clown next to GIBBS.

My as-yet-unwritten NCIS/CM crossover story has Tony and Reid meeting in the waiting room of the pulmonologist's office (hey, they both live in the DC area, it could happen) and discussing the vicissitudes of having survived a disease from the middle ages. (Tony: "It doesn't get you as many chicks as you'd think.") I actually think that Tony and Reid would get on famously - they have similar personalities even if they seem outwardly very different. (Can't you just see Phys Ed Major and 9,000m Ph.D.'s meeting up for beers after work?)

Also, I'm sad that you're done writing NCIS for now - please don't vanish again, your writing is seriously too darn good!

[sequitur_fic]

Oh, thanks!--and no, no vanishing again, it's just going to be a slower schedule for a while.

And I love your imagined crossover--I think they would kind of hit it off, actually, bonding over how many terrible things have happened to them.

[jaxzwolf]

Victorian Frame-Up? That would be incredible. Particularly as the repercussions of a conviction in that era would be far more severe. If Tony had been convicted, he'd be looking at a life sentence in prison, with a possibility for parole. If Anthony were convicted of murder, he'd be shortly thereafter hanged. And THAT would certainly put a lot of pressure on our intrepid investigators.