Fic: Contingent (WAT, Danny/Martin, PG13)

[carolinecrane]

Title: Contingent
Fandom: Without A Trace
Pairing: Danny/Martin
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Spoilers through "Lost and Found"
Summary: Martin doesn't owe him anything.

Author's note: I owed spoiledjap a Danny/Martin fic, and although it's possible I promised her smut, it just didn't work out that way. So Ruth, I owe you a smut fic. But in the meantime, this

Comments

[carolinecrane]

You know what? I'm a little bit in love with this fic. It's been so long since I actually liked something I wrote, but somehow this just sort of flowed from start to finish, and in Danny's POV, of all things. You know I can't write Danny, so I have no idea how it happened. I guess the Danny in my head is just as frustrated with canon as we are

[carolinecrane]

Well the whole point was to cheer us both up, so I'm glad I could do that. And I'm always up for fluff. Well, most of the time. I think I've overextended myself on the fic plans this summer, but there's always fall to catch up with myself.

[spoiledjap]

OMG Caroline, I can't begin to tell you how wonderful this is, okay read Neko's comment she has it down pat (thanks Neko :)). As for owing me sumt my birthday is Aug. 6th, as a 19th birthday gift I'll take smut. Smut is always good but this, this was amazing, oye the angest it made me so happy. As you can tell I'm soooooo NOT disapointed, girl, you are the best and as Neko said you have those two down to a science.
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!
Ruth

[carolinecrane]

As long as you're happy, I'm happy. Glad you liked it.

[spoiledjap]

In reality sweeite, i'm happy with whatever you write. But I'm an agnest whore so this was excellent.

[exitsign]

Jesus Christ, that's awesome. I totally just... dude, whoa. Danny's emotions were so strong it makes me dizzy just thinking about it. Guh. No sex and I'm guhhing. Whoa. Okay, I think it's because, in my head, Martin is always the one feeling lost and angry and used and Danny just... isn't. I don't know why but it probably stems from the fact that, while I love Danny and his sexy, smirking goofiness, I love Martin just a little bit more.

I love Martin because I get him and Danny is just this big mystery, you know? So I don't really spend as much time as I should contemplating his motivations. I think that's why this hit me so fucking hard. Because here's Danny feeling these things and justthisclose to fucking hating Martin and it shocked the shit out of me. And I loved every second.

Reading all these thoughts and then seeing Martin being such a callous, uncaring jerk was like being stabbed in the eye with a spoon. I mean, here's me who loves Martin and I wanted to hit him for Danny. And then, wham, "I know. But I shouldn't have

[carolinecrane]

I'm the same way with Danny, which is why I have no clue where this fic came from. I usually write from Martin's perspective because I understand better where he's coming from, but in this scenario I suppose Danny is sort of the audience. Sort of confused, a little bit on the outside because we only have half the information we need, and then when all the blanks are filled it we're kind of left going, "Oh. Dude."

Poor Martin. I totally painted him as the bad guy and I didn't realize how it was going to come across because I knew he was just being clueless. He just doesn't know how bad Danny's got it for him, the idiot. If he'd open his eyes once in awhile he'd be too busy thanking God for his good fortune to worry about Sam's love life.

I have it on CD single, dude.

Me too! Me too! I also love "West Side Story". It's so humiliating.

[exitsign]

I'm not entirely sure if this is what you meant because I'm having issues with the Angel series finale but what you said about Danny being like the audience is just... yes. Total yes. Danny is so going through exactly what we, as the readers, go through. It's like this very bizarre FBI version of the Neverending Story or something. Only not because that's kind of lame and probably makes no sense to anyone but me. Ahem, anyway, yes, the half the information thing and confusion just nails it all

[planbee]

This could work but I'm not too sure if Martin's the type of person who only does something halfway. If he started something with Danny I don't think he'd just give up on it. Unless you consider the apparent breakdown he was about to have that magically disappeared (gotta love the continuity).

And I watched those scenes from the last episode again and I have a new perspective on it. Martin ran into Sam by accident when she was crying. And later she started the conversation. When he asked "Am I the only one who didn't know?" maybe it was the same question he had last season? I seriously doubt that he talked about it with either of them before this point. I don't think he just now found out. He knew. But he never had the right forum to question it or what it meant.

I don't think I'm worried about tomorrow. I don't think they'd give us something M/S-y after the way it ended with J/S last week.

And I don't mean to question your fic. Really. I like the idea of it but I guess I just didn't see that M/S scene the same way you

[carolinecrane]

I guess you are seeing a totally different character from me, because the Martin I watch every week isn't necessarily the kind of guy who would demand all or nothing from Danny. He's uptight and he's very principled, certainly, but if they were to fall into a casual relationship I think it's entirely plausible that he wouldn't know how to talk about it. It's not that he gave up on anything, he just didn't get that Danny misinterpreted his concern for Sam. Martin's certainly been clueless in canon on several occasions, so I don't think it's that much of a stretch here.

You give the writers a lot more credit than I do. After a year of knowing something about someone that's not the kind of question that I would expect him to have thrown out there, especially since he didn't really know them all that well when he found out the first time and it wouldn't have been appropriate at all to ask. Not that it was any more appropriate when he did ask, but I don't buy that he was just asking a question that had been on his mind all this time.

[planbee]

I understand what you're saying about Martin, and I agree that this scenario is likely based on a slash twist of cannon, but I'm just not sure if Martin would let himself fall into a casual relationship. All the times he's talked about love (he said "something like that" as a response to wanting the white picket fence, etc.) he seems to want something permanent.

I think that's why he's still alone (from what we can gather) in cannon. I can't see Martin picking someone up in a bar for a one night stand. He's not the type. He's not casual.

[carolinecrane]

I think a lot of people want that permanence that Martin's looking for, but that doesn't negate the possibility of them taking what's offered while they're looking. If Danny came on to him, for instance, while they were out of town on a case and out of their lives, so to speak, I think it would be pretty easy for Martin to give in to the attraction. Later he might regret it because it doesn't fit into whatever vision his parents had for him, or possibly because Danny wasn't giving him the signs that he wanted something more. Which is where the miscommunication comes in.

Also, he's a guy, and I don't know very many guys who haven't had at least one one-night stand at some point. Actually, I don't know too many girls who haven't. But it's possible that everyone I know is kind of slutty.

[ruggerdavey]

but finally Martin smiles that shy smile and Danny's heart stops beating

Awwww... This was great. And I'm with Neko in saying, "Yay! You fixed it!"

[carolinecrane]

Thanks. It needed to be fixed before tomorrow, I think.