Probability
Characters: Claude/Bennet
Rating/Warnings: R, for extensive violence and bad language.
Word count: 3,384
Spoilers: Very minor ones up to S2, but virtually nothing past 1.17 ("Company Man")
Summary: Even after you've calculated the odds and checked your working, twice, some things are still just ... inevitable. Set between ".07%" and "The Hard Part ( Read more... )
Rating/Warnings: R, for extensive violence and bad language.
Word count: 3,384
Spoilers: Very minor ones up to S2, but virtually nothing past 1.17 ("Company Man")
Summary: Even after you've calculated the odds and checked your working, twice, some things are still just ... inevitable. Set between ".07%" and "The Hard Part ( Read more... )
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So much love for angry-vicious-vindictive!Claude, who's still a helluva lot more vulnerable than he's willing to be. And Bennet still gets under his skin (with his damn fun-spoiling morally grey puppy eyes), no matter how much he tries to fight it. I can totally see Claude opting for exactly this kind of revenge, too, since he's very driven by the heat of the moment. He wants to hurt Bennet like Bennet hurt him, but probably not face actual consequences, that's why thinking Bennet is dead would jolt him right out of it ( ... )
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I can never shake the feeling that (present-day) Claude's about two breaths from disintegrating ... he holds it together most of the time, but yeah, there are big cracks. And Bennet doesn't even need to think consciously about getting under his skin - it's just what he does. I'm fascinated by the idea that Bennet picked up the snark-under-pressure from Claude ... there's a story right there, about Bennet's transformation from rookie to rugged, wry company man.
Glad they both worked for you here :) Particularly glad that the post-tasering snark fits - I couldn't imagine anything else, really! I was going to include some talk about Claire, but that ended up covering too-familiar ground (Imaginary Friend, I think), so I cut it. And I suspect that the snark works better than the earnestness ( ... )
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Yeah, present!Claude is far from together, and exposure to Bennet is pretty damn likely to send him over the edge. Then again, I think he'd need to break down so he can build himself back up - hard to imagine it happening fluidly (Bennet's trickier in that respect, he always anchors on self-control and a sense of mission, no matter how close to the breaking line he is).
I think Bennet has to be a natural hunter ('s why Blade Runner works so well for him) - it's not something that can be completely learned. He'd probably show that even as a rookie, just without the experience and confidence (I'm actually wondering if he's gonna end up running the Company at some point in the show, because it's a plausible direction for him). I'm gonna have to write a big Company Years fic eventually, 4 srs. @_ ( ... )
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Yeah, I feel that Claude needs some rebuilding (we have the technology ... ) - I'm sure this whole taser episode will have been very cathartic for him ;) And yes, Bennet's internal narrative is all mission, whereas Claude's is probably all id! Oh dear.
Hey, we need to write that Blade Runner fic! It's too bad she won't live I have to go away on Wednesday.
UR C0MPANY YRZ FIC: WRIET MEH IT.
Yeah, I expect Bennet's going to try to get serious in this coda I'm not writing. And Claude will probably try and dismiss it by being flip.
I wish everyone wrote emotional pr0n ... the regular kind is okay, but I like the psychological stuffz.
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- and Noah doesn't really know why he doesn't follow the movement, push Claude backwards and knock the damn thing from his hands -
Nice line. Noah's lack of action looked a little more conscious than he thought it was.
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Yeah, that bit ... it was like Noah knew it was happening, but he couldn't quite bring himself to do anything about it (guilt, much? ;)
Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for reading!
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You know, I'm a Grade A moron, because I had totally forgotten that Bennet was toting a bullet-wound (even though I knew he'd been through the thing on the bridge, blah blah blah ... wow. *smacks self over head*) Maybe that can feature a bit more in the sequel to this that I appear to be writing.
Glad this worked for you ... and yeah, Londo/G'Kar does seem kinda appropriate! Hee.
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Sequel ... yeah. Is about 1/4 written, but I'm off on holiday on Wednesday so it may need to wait 'til I get back ...
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a more realistic assessment of the situation might have placed him somewhere between the cat and the snowball on their respective trajectories through Hell
*is in awe of your command of metaphors*
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I can't take too much credit for the metaphorical streak running through this (though I hope the lines are original, at least*) - I've stolen a big chunk of my Bennet characterisation from fantasticpants. Having said that, it's awfully good fun to write.
* Genuine worry. Email discussion with FP this week revealed that I had (a) inadvertently stolen one of her lines from a long-ago fic [sadly, this is the second time! She was very nice about it] and (b) that I had included a particular metaphor in the fic I was writing at literally around the same time as she had decided to delete it from the story she was writing. We've been on the same page, metaphorically speaking, a lot, lately! Though my most blatant hijacking of her style was entirely deliberate :o)
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