"be still and know your sign" (two of seven)

[scarletts_awry]

title: Seven Swans (2/7)
with: Danny
(pair: implicit Danny/Mac)
rated: R
herein: suppose time is a circle. reference to “tanglewood” and “run silent, run deep.”
disclaim: I only own the dvds. Everything belongs to Zuiker, et al.
note: each story was gleaned from prompts at mix7fics; each story in the set centers on a different character.

Comments

[scarletts_awry]

Thank you. :)

[stellaluna_]

Oh, so good and hurting. (I knew that sentence was going to lead to good fic.) This fits Danny so well, because it really *is* what he does: he never lies, exactly, just...shifts things so that they become tolerable, or become what the person he's talking to wants to hear. (And I've always thought that there were other things he was still leaving out when he talked to Mac in RSRD.) And there's a sorrow in it, too, even though Danny thinks he's now who he wants to be - both in the fact that he/his past *is* so malleable, which comes back to the eternal identity issues, and in how Mac doesn't seem to notice. Even when they're good together, there are darker things lurking.

[scarletts_awry]

Thanks. I'm really fascinated by that flexible part of Danny's identity, the potential contradictions.

(And I've always thought that there were other things he was still leaving out when he talked to Mac in RSRD.)

There *has* to be. There's no way that's the only time Danny hung out with them--that the *first* night Danny's around, Sonny's going to kill somebody. Sonny's crazy and ego-centric, but I can't imagine he's quite stupid enough to go killing people in front of a stranger (Louie's brother or not). I've been seriously wanting to write teenaged Danny fic since RSRD aired, and I've started a few pieces but never quite gotten my act together.

[venetia_sassy]

You took a great sentence and turned it into an amazing fic. This was both fascinating and disturbing. And the last line ... brilliant.

[scarletts_awry]

Thank you. With Danny I'm terribly drawn to the idea of what-might-have-been.

[metatarsus]

*loves*

I'm friend-ing you because I keep coming back to this journal and every time I do I get something lovely :) Can't wait to read the next parts of this!

[scarletts_awry]

Thank you :)

I've had writer's block for a frighteningly long time now, but I think I'm going to get the next piece up tonight or tomorrow.

[nosenseof]

I read this story when you first posted it and it resonated with me so much that I had to go digging for it again -

The illusiveness of Danny that you capture in this story is a lot of what draws me to his character in the show. History as a construct and people as constructs and Danny's awareness of this - it makes so much sense and it's written so perfectly. Seriously *chills*

Ok to friend you?

[scarletts_awry]

Thank you. Yeah, the very carefully and (on some level) self-consciously constructed nature of Danny's past and identity is a large part of what draws me to his character as well.

Ok to friend you?

Of course :)