Comments | timeenoughfor: Fic: Bring in the Clowns, Sandra, (1/1)

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Fic: Bring in the Clowns, Sandra, (1/1)

Aug 22, 2009 12:24

Title: Bring in the Clowns
Fandom: New Tricks (TV Show)
Characters: Sandra Pullman
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Summary: But it’s Jack’s word against your memories and you love him too...
Length: 512 words
Status: Complete
A/N: Post season four's; 'Big Topped'.

( you watch from the doorway and you hate them... )

status: complete, fandom: new tricks, genre: angst, length: 0-1000, title: bring in the clowns, rating: pg-13

Comments 16

hot_pink_poppy August 22 2009, 19:19:12 UTC

Wow,that's brilliant! You really captured the charcter.

Hate to sound really stupid,but who is She/Her?

This is great,hope for more NT fic soon!x

lindsey_grissom August 22 2009, 19:37:18 UTC

Thank you!

Oh, you're not stupid, I probably should have actually written her name once or twice, but it was Sandra's thoughts, and "she" is more impersonal and almost...detatched, which is how my Sandra felt.
It's Christie...the girl in "Big Topped" who's dating Strickland and manages to get the case into her father's death re-opened. I watched that episode and the final scene and I just thought, no matter what, she gets all her answers and manages to get a family out of it, and yet, Sandra just has questions that rip her famil apart...

I'm hoping to write more, I aready wrote this one last year, but I've got a longer one in the works. :) Anything to get some fic going for this show!

pook41 August 22 2009, 21:24:54 UTC

Wonderfully emotive vignette. I had no idea who it was either. Thanks for sharing

lindsey_grissom August 22 2009, 21:49:33 UTC

Thank you. Maybe I should put who it is in the A/Ns? I'm really glad you liked it. :)

*looks at your icon* oh Brian! =P

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lucky_sparkle August 24 2009, 23:58:31 UTC

And more NT fic! 3 cheers for youuuu! :D

You have Sandra down very well and I loved the Dad VS Jack thing, "And now you know more than you ever dreamed and you still don’t want to believe it, because he was your dad and you love him. But it’s Jack’s word against your memories and you love him too." - Perfect!

Poor Sandra!

lindsey_grissom August 26 2009, 07:23:58 UTC

Thank you! :p I was feeling rather "achieved" when I posted. ;)

I really got caught in the Jack vs Dad tone of the show after she found out about the suicide. I mean, of all the team, it was Jack she alsways went to for actual help and advice (especially in the first seasons) but to find out that, however inadvertently, Jack was the reason for her Dad's death, and that he kept that from her, well, that had to be hard to work out, right?

Anyway, thank you. :) And poor Sandra indeed. Sadly, if and when I do write more NT fic, you'll probably feel that way quite often. But I'll probably give her a happy, protective!team ending. ;)

bea2 September 15 2009, 11:19:58 UTC

I wanted to Jack to tell Sandra he was her real dad

lindsey_grissom September 15 2009, 14:55:46 UTC

Now that would have been an interesting twist to the show. :)

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youreyesaregems August 25 2009, 23:46:58 UTC

Loved it, obviously. I think the second person POV works really well for Sandra, and I like the detached tone, especially in the last line.

Ohh, Sandra. I just want her to be happy!

lindsey_grissom August 26 2009, 07:26:10 UTC

Thank you! I sometimes get caught up in writing second person POVs but, as you say, I felt that a more detatched tone would get across more than just the emotions you could see she was feeling, I thought maybe it would convey her state of shock as well.

Anyway, thank you. I agree! She should be happy! Now if only the writers could see it that way...