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Fic: The Hardest Part of the Job

Jul 15, 2014 10:50

Title: The Hardest Part of the Job
Author: Mary (stillxmyxheart)
Beta: Lindsay (rowofstars)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Character death
Genre: Angst, Family, Friendship
Word Count: 7,576
Characters/Pairings: Chris, Tony, Eli, David, Kari, Hannah, Jeannie (Chris/Kari, Hannah/Eli, Tony/Jeannie)

A/N: Tony started out as purely a background character; if you recall, he's referred ( Read more... )

character: jeannie warren, pairing: chris/kari, #future fic, pairing: jeannie/tony, character: tony warren, character: hannah cole, !!ficverse: an eye for an eye, character: eli shaw, character: david cole, !fic, character: chris tyler, character: kari chandekar, pairing: eli/hannah, *rating: pg

Comments 4

professor_spork July 15 2014, 18:33:39 UTC

Something flashes over Tony's face at that, so quick that Chris thinks he imagined it, and then Eli speaks.

THIS CANNOT BE ANYTHING GOOD

His sleeves are rolled up to his elbows now, hiding the red marks, and he scrubbed his wedding ring until it gleamed, but he thinks he may have to take it in and have it professionally cleaned. He rubs his hands together, resisting the urge to get up and wash them for the fourth time.

oh no oh no oh no my heart

"Has - has anybody told Jeannie yet?" Chris finally asks after a long moment, lifting his gaze to David.
"Not yet -"
"I want to do it."
"Chris, no."

CHRIS NO

"Tony pretended to be my boyfriend once."
Eli gives a short laugh. "What?"
... "and he just smiled and shook his head, and then he said he just hoped his girlfriend wouldn't be too mad when he told her about it later."

tonyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

"Maybe I should just quit."
"Chris -"
"That way nobody else will get hurt because of me. Nobody else will die because of me."

no, then you'll feel bad when things happen and you WEREN'T there

( ... )

stillxmyxheart July 15 2014, 22:32:00 UTC

ngl i teared up a little bit
I teared up a lot, ugh.

electrik_twist July 17 2014, 22:29:29 UTC

I just... my heart feels like it's gonna vomit.

I loved Tony Warren and I loved Young and I just... you did this storyline justice. It was probably even harder for you to write than it was for me to read, but I pretty much sobbed through a lot of it. (Emotional friend is emotional.)

stillxmyxheart July 17 2014, 22:35:41 UTC

This was definitely hard to write, I cried several times during it. And it was hard to write Chris reacting to this too, because this is his first, real, personal brush with death, and losing someone he cared for deeply, so a lot of things about writing this just hurt.