a little more fic for the holidays
There are a couple of ideas swimming around in my head, not to mention unfinished projects, and there is never as much free time as a break ought to have. Regardless, this piece demanded being finished off before I turned my attention to anything else. Unfortunately for basically everyone not me, it's the continuing adventures (or conversations, at
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I agree, there's a serious connection between them, especially how well Sterling seems to know him with the picture and everything, but I really don't know how Sterling views Nate. To me, it reads like he thinks Nate's stint with the team is just a phase he's going through, following the death of Sam and his divorce. I don't think it ever occurred to him that Nate was actually changing into a different person, that he wouldn't just snap out of it sometime - which is why, I think, Sterling expected the deal to work and why when Nate announces he's a thief, Sterling admits he really doesn't know who this guy is. The Nate Sterling knew would never, ever embrace criminality. Nor fight for thieves.
The saving the other from the abyss idea is interesting, though. What sorts of things point to that for you? Personally, I don't count the letting them get out of the offices before they blew, because to me killing is a line that none of them (except on occasion Eliot) would ever contemplate crossing. And Nate interacting with the team in a "good" way - you mean like meaty conflict, or something else?
- The armchair! I always thought that was a fabulous character note for him. What kind of guy goes and puts an armchair in a truck just to create an image for one arrest? It shows his penchant for theatricality. He doesn't do mind-games like Nate, but he always has a sense for appearances and a real feel for striking the right impression. Such as climbing out of the trunk in front of reporters in Russia! The guy cracks me up.
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See, the other side of this (and the reason the dynamic between them is so complicated) is that there's a sense where their inherent competition with one another was let off the leash the moment they're on opposite sides of the law, or right and wrong as they see it. Where before they competed, but within the bounds that they both recognised that they were both catching thieves, doing the honourable thing. I seem to recall something (it might have been Rogers talking about it on his blog) where the drinking on the roof together ritual was a way they acknowledged who was currently "ahead" between the two of them.
So although I think Sterling has certain opinions about what Nate's doing and why, I think he's also relishing the opportunity to really go head-to-head. Probably a little more than Nate, who has other considerations, but I think it's there for Nate too. So ... I really don't know where they stand with each other right now. Like you, I want the show to get Sterling back (S3 just wasn't the same without him!) and keep exploring that.
I see what you mean with the interaction thing, now. A lot of it plays at the subtext level, of course, because Nate is not someone who openly or easily shows his affection for people. Nate being Nate, I think we may just have to take it a little bit on faith, or by the team's interpretation of what he does, I guess. Like in Beantown Bailout, I think it was, Sophie saying that he did miss them, even though that wasn't necessarily obvious from the scene.
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