"Digging in the Dirt", for domfangirl

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Title: Digging in the Dirt
Author: To be revealed
Rating:R for language and mentions of drug use and violence
Category:Gen, Het
Characters: Lincoln Burrows, Derek Sweeney, Crab Simmons, Michael Scofield, Lisa Rix, LJ Burrows, mention of Sara Tancredi
Requested by: domfangirl
Summary:There's a saying by someone that goes if you're in hole, stop digging. That

Comments

[badboy_fangirl]

I don' t know where to start...so I'm just going to say THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART for now. I'll be back with more lucid thoughts shortly....

[anonymous]

Honestly, I can't think of a better explanation for the out-of-sync Derek/Lincoln scene. It fits perfectly, and is paired with dead-on characterization for Linc. It's official...this is now my new canon, as I imagine it will be for many people!

Great job!

[msgenevieve]

Thank you! It chewed up a lot of brain cells, trying to explain it, but I like to think I got there in the end, lol!

[anonymous]

This was a great story. I felt Lincoln's self-loathing. Great way to tie it all together.

And I loved the ending. You gave me a little thread of hope to hold onto. Just really well-written.

[msgenevieve]

Thanks so much! There's nothing fun about being the family screw-up, and you gotta wonder how much Lincoln believes all the bad stuff everyone else seems to think about him. Poor guy.

[badboy_fangirl]

Some of my favorite lines:

The rampant lust for her that had once driven him almost out of his mind is gone, morphed into something he doesn’t recognize but suddenly wants to learn.

Gah.

He wants to take him. God, he wants to, but he’s afraid. Afraid of holding him wrong. Afraid of talking too loud and scaring him.

Afraid of loving him too much. Because loving someone too much always hurts.

Gah, gah!

If he weren’t so tired, he’d be a little freaked out by hearing Vee’s habitual urging coming out of Derek’s mouth.

NICE!

Of course, it goes without saying that I love how this all ties together--every scene, every mention of Derek, and the feeling of it just being deleted scenes that I needed to see BERY, BERY BADLY! But I especially like the exchange with Michael, and Michael letting Lincoln know he'd needed absolution too. So sweet.

So, anyway, thank you, thank you, thank you. So very good, every little bit of it.

[msgenevieve]

Eieieieie!!!!!!!

Now I can tell you how excited and relieved I was that you liked it. *bounces*

[badboy_fangirl]

Ha! Well, at least I was right about it feeling *familiar*--which yours and Amy's writing always reminds me of the other anyway, so saying one is saying the other. And secretly, I hoped one of you two would take the prompt yourself--as I trusted you both the most to do him justice. *g* So thanks for taking the prompt.

[msgenevieve]

It was a tough assignment, but then I like to try and make sense of the insensible. Plus, I *knew* how upset you were by it and I hated that you were upset, so I wanted to make it right for you.

[anonymous]

This is how they should have done it on the show. Explained it from start to finish like peices of a puzzle that explain how a man who's been so tarnished by his image is really good underneath. "Brother's Keeper" and random flashbacks have never been sufficent. Even now, I don't think the writers of PB actually know what kind of man he is and your story makes him the kind of man that I always hoped he was.

Wonderful work. I want to read it again and again.

[msgenevieve]

Thanks!

It's funny, isn't it? It was such a short scene on the screen, and yet it managed to completely mess up canon!Lincoln for so many people.

I don't love Lincoln, I must admit, but I hope I understand him a little, and I definitely enjoy writing him. I'm glad you enjoyed this.