FIC: In a Mirror, Darkly: Chapter 24/?

[valeriev84]

Title: In a Mirror, Darkly: Chapter 24
Author: Valerie Vancollie (valeriev84 [at] hotmail.com)
Characters: Don, Charlie, Alan, David, Colby, Nikki, Billy Cooper
Rating: 15
Summary: There was a certain irony to the situation, that the brother who was a federal agent had been abducted to be used as leverage against the brother who was an applied

Comments

[admiralandrea]

Aw, poor Billy! Talk about an emotional wringer.

And I totally think Radovic went upwards with the knife, to inflict more damage, because he had to go in below the vest initially.

[valeriev84]

Yeah, I think perhaps I should have listed it as Don Whump & Charlie/Alan/Billy Angst.

:)

Hmm... I just don't see that movement in the action sequence, do you?

[valeriev84]

And would he need to go below the vest? I thought I heard once that Kevlar wasn't very good protection against knives as it wasn't designed to stop them.

[admiralandrea]

I would say from where we saw the scar start (going from the bottom upwards) it had to be below the vest and upwards. It starts next to his belly button.

You can actually buy anti-stab vests, which are what you're more likely to see being worn in the UK, because knife crime is more common than gun crime, unless the officers are firearms officers.

The FBI are definitely going to be wearing Kevlar though, which is not effective against knives. But if you look at the caps on r_morrow_daily from Hangman and look at any picture of Don in his Kevlar, I think it went under the vest and up. Or maybe in at the bottom of the vest and up, depending on where the vest ends.

Shame the scene is so damn dark, so you can't really tell!

(I work as a civilian for the police, so I have some knowledge on this subject)

[valeriev84]

Hmm, I'd just assumed that the surgery might have lengthened the scar on both ends. But I guess the stabbing and pulling upwards is possible too. I just didn't think Radovic's hand moved all that much.

[admiralandrea]

I don't think the surgery would have lengthened it that much, because the area affected is the small intestine and for Don to be bad enough to flat line, a large area must have been damaged. Of course, I'm not a doctor, so I could be wrong.

[valeriev84]

Didn't they say it punctured his lung? I don't remember anything about the intestines.

I think I need to rewatch this episodes. Poor me.

:)