FIC: Secret Meetings (Oz, PG)

[vanillalime]

Title: Secret Meetings
Main Characters: Victoria Beecher, Swanny, Gaetano Cincetta
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,808
Summary: With the help of a friend, Toby's mother delivers the payment to Pancamo's hitman hired to kill Hank Schillinger.
Notes: Both Swanny (Harrison Beecher's private investigator) and Gaetano Cincetta (Pancamo's hitman) are named-but-

Comments

[drsquidlove]

YAYYYY!

I love that Victoria keeps counting the cash. Yes, that is so exactly what I would do.

I love Swanny's guilt over finding Hank.

I love him because he doesn't try to take the job of handing the money over from Victoria. It's her job, and he's just there to support her.

I loooove that she wants Hank to suffer. None of Toby's weasely dithering. Just fuck him up.

Awww, when he pulls his arm away, and you know he has feelings for her, it's so lovely! Just for this one night, but only this night out of his whole life, he gets to savour being the one she trusts and he's going to silently play a little make believe that it's a date when they go for a drink.

I love it, Vanilla. I love what you do with her.

[vanillalime]

Thanks so much, Squid! I was so hoping you'd enjoy this! The story has been slowly percolating inside me for the last five months. When I finally sat down to write it, it was relatively quick and easy because I'd played the whole thing out in my head so many times

[drsquidlove]

I think maybe Swanny's dad worked for Harrison's father. I like to imagine deep family entanglement. :-)

Hank brutally murdered your child, Toby! He deserves to die!

Yeah. That was a bit I wasn't fully sold on. The show really worked to earn Toby's forgiveness of Chris and Vern, but I don't think they earned Toby suddenly putting principles ahead of his young child's hand being cut off. The idea that seeing emotionally scarred Holly would hit his philosophical, rational buttons rather than his protective dad button is pretty nonsensical.

And, even in the midst of watching a show about justice, and being against government death penalty, I have absolute zero judgment for a parent murdering the guy who brutally murdered their little kid. Can't summon one tiny scrap of disapproval.

[vanillalime]

Fontana said once in an interview about Oz that he is "against the death penalty until he's for it" (paraphrasing). Meaning, he's against capital punishment in principle, until he hears or reads of someone doing something so heinous that he hopes they receive the most brutal punishment possible. I think a lot of people feel that way

[drsquidlove]

Yeah, I think that's most of us. Show me a particular case, and I want that guy to fry. Show me any nation's legal system, and I'm a hell, no.

Yes, for Agent Taylor. He doesn't do anything that Elliot Stabler wouldn't do. It's purely our POV bias.

Ha, that is a very generous reading of Vern. I'll always read the worst of him. Though I'll always read the worst of all of them in Oz - seeing the worst and understanding them anyway is what makes Oz so fascinating.