FIC: Weights and Measures - Breaking Bad, Walt/Jesse

[squonkfan]

Title: Weights and Measures
Pairing: Walt/Jesse
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~1000
Spoilers: 3x13 - "Full Measure"
Other formats: AO3 || Russian translation (translated by pointlessride)
Disclaimer: This is an amateur, not-for-profit work of fiction. No attempt has been made to copyright characters and/or concepts owned by the Breaking Bad people, nor

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[squonkfan]

Something that actually just clicked with me about that scene, is that Jesse is showing off that he actually learned from Walt, right when Walt is taking his "indefinite sabbatical" from teaching.

Oh, interesting! And Walt has always been less than satisfied with teaching, certainly at the high school level. Once he gets a taste of the excitement of the criminal life, going back to that banality is eating him alive, much more so than the guilt of the plane crash. He doesn't want to teach anyone chemistry--he wants to be doing it; to be the center of it, the genius, the Big Cheese. He doesn't give a shit about having taught Jesse anything, especially because it seems to be in the service of Jesse's carrying on what Walt started and what Walt wants to keep doing. Shades of Elliot all over again. Walt sees himself as the guy who has all the brains and puts in all the work, only to watch everyone else climb to the top on his back. No wonder he gets so pissed at Jesse.

I'm pretty sure Gale is dead... I think that when Vince Gilligan found out that some people interpreted his final shot differently, he was just fucking with people when he said he was considering other alternatives, haha.

I hope you're right! But I could also see something interesting wherein Jesse tells Gale to run, paralleling "Half Measures." And then Jesse telling Walt that he did it and disposed of the body, and then we deal with that tension for a season. Gus would have to keep Walt around even without hard proof of Gale's death, as long as he couldn't find Gale. That would seem like a very BB way to go, too...but again, I don't really want to see it. I think it would be emotionally meatier to deal with the fallout from Gale's murder both in terms of Jesse's character and in terms of Jesse and Walt's relationship.

In that case, mightI friend you?

Of course!! :)

[periariyx]

But I could also see something interesting wherein Jesse tells Gale to run, paralleling "Half Measures." And then Jesse telling Walt that he did it and disposed of the body, and then we deal with that tension for a season. Gus would have to keep Walt around even without hard proof of Gale's death, as long as he couldn't find Gale.

But, see, if I were Gale, and that happened, the first thing I do is run straight to Gus, because he's the only person that I know that can protect me. I see that solution as being very short-sighted. Which is definitely within Jesse's character to do, so I guess actually killing Gale is just a reinforcement of the love he has for Walt. Which, as you said, killing Gale takes the Jesse/Walt relationship to a far more interesting place, since they've now killed for each other, tied to each other pretty much from hereon out, but how much is Jesse going to resent Walt for this? Ohh there's so much there. It's so messy and painful, I love it!

And added you right back. Awesome. :D