You know you have a new fandom when...

[ladyoflisquill]

...upon reading an article about Barack Obama you get excited by the line opener, "A campaign spokesman, Robert Gibbs" and begin to fabricate fic in which Jethro has an estranged brother on the campaign trail who has to call in the NCIS team when a marine shows up mysteriously dead and the future president of America is the main suspect.

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[xanthe]

Oh I *like* it! *ggg* I'm also holding out for an ep of NCIS where Mitch Pileggi shows up as one of Gibbs's old marine buddies and he's got a young, cheeky male sidekick in tow and he and Gibbs exchange weary looks about it. Mitch is guest starring in everything at the moment so the least he could do is appear in NCIS!

[ladyoflisquill]

It's totally your fault. ::points accusing finger:: Add to that the fact that it's taking all my will power to resist reading new installments of HiPS while in work, leading to disciplinary action and subsequent unemployment (which right now would be okay because then I would get to read FIC) and you're turning me into goo. You can write Obama fic to make it up to me ;-). What? It's not like you just wrote a 200k opus.

Mitch, OMG, that would so work. I just saw the ep of That 70's Show where HE IS A SWINGER and I was in fits of giggles.

Did I mention I'm reading 24/7? I'm having to ration myself on the chapters so I don't mainline because it's so intense, both emotionally and, y'know, the other kind, but sometimes I just want to grab Fox and shake him into realising how lucky he is. Grrr! I do miss the dual POV though. Some of my fav parts of Coming Home and G&DS were when we got to see how John was coping with the whole situation too. I'd love a snapshot of Walter's POV on Fox.

Okay, yes, work... that's what I'm meant to be doing

[xanthe]

Yikes! No to unemployment *g*.

I will NOT write Obama fic! Although...*g*.

I didn't know you were reading 24/7 but you raise a really good point. I started that fic doing Fox POV only but actually I wish I'd alternated it - by the end I was much more interested in what was going on in Walter's mind. And yes, I agree - Fox definitely needed a good shaking. I mean - Walter was just the perfect master in that fic.

[ladyoflisquill]

LOL! But Obama wants you to write it... ::raises eyebrows:: ... no? Oh well, can't blame a girl for trying.

I think the reason I find 24/7 so intense is because we don't know Walter's intentions. Yes, he does show them through his actions (and repeatedly in what he says to Fox) but we're in the same boat as Fox a lot of the time with the same insecurities and difficulties dealing with Walter's high expectations. Walter is such a strong top that we, as the reader, never doubt his commitment (thinking about it, maybe once, after Seattle when he didn't know how to help Fox) but Fox continually believes he is not only incapable of being a good sub but is also undeserving of the love and attention Walter shows him which ultimately leads to him acting out and finding it difficult to accept his submission.

Now I'm talking about this I want to say soo much. I knew I should have bombarded you with comments. ::sigh:: I've been a bad reader.