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Fic: Learning to Let Go [CSI:NY, Danny/Mac]

Feb 14, 2008 21:21

Title: Learning to Let Go
Author: stellaluna_
Fandom: CSI:NY
Rating: R for sexual content
Summary: Mac is trying to let go of the past. Post-ep for "The Thing About Heroes." Danny/Mac
Disclaimer: None of these are mine. Characters are the property of Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS, and Alliance Atlantis.

( He's too tired not to want this )

mac taylor, danny/mac, post-ep, danny messer, fic, csi:ny, r

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blueraccoon February 15 2008, 05:42:18 UTC

Danny knows all about being haunted. Danny will know how to take him through this, how to take him out of this.

Oh, how achingly true. Both of them are so haunted in their own ways, and Mac trusting Danny to get him through this is just perfect.

Brava.

stellaluna_ February 20 2008, 05:10:48 UTC

Thank you! Both of them really are haunted, and I'm fascinated by how much their stories and backgrounds seem to increasingly parallel each other. There's so much potential there for things to explore in fic.

blueraccoon February 20 2008, 05:17:47 UTC

*nodnod* I sent you email about this once but that was around the time life got crazy for both of us, so. I was really struck--"The Thing About Heroes" made it pretty obvious that Mac was running errands for the mob, whether indirectly or not, and it made me think--was his family associated with that? Or was he just the child of parents who didn't care? But Mac's tangles there were a striking parallel to Danny's own encounters with the Tanglewood Boys, no?

stellaluna_ February 20 2008, 05:35:13 UTC

Yes, that! Exactly that. Mac's errand-running makes a *very* neat parallel between his past and Danny's misadventures with Tanglewood. It also sheds some really interesting new light on episodes like "Run Silent, Run Deep," in particular the way Mac reacts to Danny's confession, and how hard he then works to clear Danny's name ( ... )

blueraccoon February 20 2008, 06:14:24 UTC

I can see it one of two ways; either he comes from money and emotionally-distant parents, or he comes from a family with some ties to crime and has distanced himself from that. Or some combination of the above, or something else I know nothing about. But those are my two main theories. (Note that the having crime ties does not preclude the possibility of also having money.)

I'd love to know more about the Taylors, but I don't know if or when we'll ever get that. If we didn't get the background in "The Thing About Heroes", I don't know if we'll ever get canon facts.

(also, PS: hai, no worries. I'll accept any and all forms of email, fic, porn, what have you. No time limit.)

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