Birthday and Fic
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crossover_chickFirst up, Happy birthday, Steve & Gary! First birthday thread in the "new" Inkwell seems to have gone off well so far. Feel free to drop by if you're interested, guys!
In other news, let's start the New Year off right -- I believe I owe you guys a virtue! Let's have some Justice up in here:
12. Justice
Fandom: Hot Fuzz
“So, w-what made you want to become a policewoman?”
“Police officer,” Alice gently corrected.
Victor winced. “Yes, of course. . .I’m sorry, I’m just so used to saying it the o-other way. . . .”
Alice nodded, giving him an understanding smile. “I know. We’ll break you of the habit eventually.” At least Victor was trying, unlike those other idiots at the station.
“I’ll do my best,” Victor promised. “But yes, what caused you to join the fo – the service?”
Alice sighed and leaned back in her chair. She’d known that this would come up sooner or later. Victor’s father almost certainly knew – it was in her file, after all. But she preferred to keep the story from her coworkers. It tended to make people view her with pity. And she was not someone to be pitied, damn it. She was someone to be respected and, if necessary, feared.
But – she liked Victor. He was quiet and sweet – and she was finding it harder and harder to resist those puppy-dog eyes. Maybe it would be all right to tell him. “I’d like to say I wanted to be a police officer all my life – but to be honest, when I was a child, my idea of what I’d like to be when I grew up changed every day,” she confessed. “Chef, artist, author – once I even wanted to be the lead in a Punch and Judy show.” She chuckled. Ah, if only one could turn back the clock. Go back to the days where one’s biggest care was whether or not you’d get a decent dessert. She missed them so. . .
But those days weren’t the subject of her story. She sighed and continued. “But then, when I was eight years old, my house burned down. Taking my parents and older sister with it. The only survivors were myself and the family cats.” She looked down at the table. “I was so filled with guilt about being the only one to make it out, that I just – shut down. I spent a year recovering from my burns in hospital – and the next ten catatonic in Rutledge Asylum.”
She could feel Victor’s horrified eyes on her. “Oh Alice--”
“I got out,” she said, cutting him off. “I clawed my way through my broken mind and returned to sanity. I cured myself and returned to the real world.” She looked up, her face dark. “And when I did, I found out that the man who had set my house on fire – who had killed my parents and–” she paused a moment to make sure her voice wouldn’t break “– and violated my sister – still roamed the streets free. I managed to discover his crimes and bring him in, but. . . .” She turned away. “I suppose I can’t really blame our local police. I saw the pictures of what remained – it would have been very hard to discover the true cause of the blaze. And Dr. Bumby had worked hard to make himself look like a man beyond reproach. But it infuriated me that my family had gone so long without justice. So I decided – once I’d caught up on my studies, I would join the service. And become the best officer the world had ever seen.” She turned back to her companion, jaw set. “So that no child would ever have to go through what I went through.”
Victor nodded. To Alice’s relief, she couldn’t see a trace of pity in his face – just admiration. “You’re incredibly brave,” he whispered. His gazed dropped to his mug as he sighed. “A bit of a shame, really, though.”
Alice blinked, arching an eyebrow. “Why’s that?”
Victor looked at her again, nervousness and mirth warring for space in his eyes. “I think you would have made a grand p-puppet.”
Alice wouldn’t realize until later that he was the first person to make her laugh in a long time.
-TTV: Shades of what happened on Alice's birthday in "Finding You" there.-
Yeah! I'm pretty sure I wrote this first, so I guess some of this carried over into that? Anyway, a long awaited (for me anyway) return to one of my favorite movies here, with supercop!Alice and regular cop!Victor. This is a reworking of the scene where Nick tells Danny about why he became a police officer. Their scene was a lot funnier, but then again Nick's backstory wasn't quite as dramatic as Alice's (uncle he idealized was a cop). I figured it worked well for the prompt and Alice's character -- she never wants to see another child victimized like she was. I also liked showing how her relationship with Victor is growing -- she's iffy about him at first, like Nick with Danny, but she comes to like and even love him (like Nick with Danny). I know by writing this that I'm essentially eliminating Bumby being a part of the Neighborhood Watch Association that makes up the villains, but honestly? The only role I could see him in is Skinner, and I don't have any problems putting Barkis in that spot. Skinner is SUPPOSED to be obviously evil, anyway -- Bumby you're not sure about (or, at least, don't suspect just HOW evil he is). He might be too dark a villain for this movie anyway -- despite the gorier parts, Hot Fuzz is in every respect a comedy. Barkis fits that role a little better.
-D: Did you ever come up with an idea for who should play the Andys?-
Oh yeah! The Tweedles will definitely be the butcher boys/movers, while the March Hare and the Dormouse will play the Andys! Actually, I think I'll have the police station staffed mostly by Wonderland folk -- I already want Hatter as the incompetent idiot who keeps asking Nick/Alice for help. And I still love the idea of William as the villain. XD William needs more evil in his life, damn it. He's too overshadowed by Nell.
-TTV: *strange look*-
Anyway! I do hope you enjoyed that. And I hope everyone's New Year's have started off on a positive note. Now I have to see if anyone's done anything with tumblr, which is very oddly quiet. Hmmm. Well, there's always TV Tropes.
In other news, let's start the New Year off right -- I believe I owe you guys a virtue! Let's have some Justice up in here:
12. Justice
Fandom: Hot Fuzz
“So, w-what made you want to become a policewoman?”
“Police officer,” Alice gently corrected.
Victor winced. “Yes, of course. . .I’m sorry, I’m just so used to saying it the o-other way. . . .”
Alice nodded, giving him an understanding smile. “I know. We’ll break you of the habit eventually.” At least Victor was trying, unlike those other idiots at the station.
“I’ll do my best,” Victor promised. “But yes, what caused you to join the fo – the service?”
Alice sighed and leaned back in her chair. She’d known that this would come up sooner or later. Victor’s father almost certainly knew – it was in her file, after all. But she preferred to keep the story from her coworkers. It tended to make people view her with pity. And she was not someone to be pitied, damn it. She was someone to be respected and, if necessary, feared.
But – she liked Victor. He was quiet and sweet – and she was finding it harder and harder to resist those puppy-dog eyes. Maybe it would be all right to tell him. “I’d like to say I wanted to be a police officer all my life – but to be honest, when I was a child, my idea of what I’d like to be when I grew up changed every day,” she confessed. “Chef, artist, author – once I even wanted to be the lead in a Punch and Judy show.” She chuckled. Ah, if only one could turn back the clock. Go back to the days where one’s biggest care was whether or not you’d get a decent dessert. She missed them so. . .
But those days weren’t the subject of her story. She sighed and continued. “But then, when I was eight years old, my house burned down. Taking my parents and older sister with it. The only survivors were myself and the family cats.” She looked down at the table. “I was so filled with guilt about being the only one to make it out, that I just – shut down. I spent a year recovering from my burns in hospital – and the next ten catatonic in Rutledge Asylum.”
She could feel Victor’s horrified eyes on her. “Oh Alice--”
“I got out,” she said, cutting him off. “I clawed my way through my broken mind and returned to sanity. I cured myself and returned to the real world.” She looked up, her face dark. “And when I did, I found out that the man who had set my house on fire – who had killed my parents and–” she paused a moment to make sure her voice wouldn’t break “– and violated my sister – still roamed the streets free. I managed to discover his crimes and bring him in, but. . . .” She turned away. “I suppose I can’t really blame our local police. I saw the pictures of what remained – it would have been very hard to discover the true cause of the blaze. And Dr. Bumby had worked hard to make himself look like a man beyond reproach. But it infuriated me that my family had gone so long without justice. So I decided – once I’d caught up on my studies, I would join the service. And become the best officer the world had ever seen.” She turned back to her companion, jaw set. “So that no child would ever have to go through what I went through.”
Victor nodded. To Alice’s relief, she couldn’t see a trace of pity in his face – just admiration. “You’re incredibly brave,” he whispered. His gazed dropped to his mug as he sighed. “A bit of a shame, really, though.”
Alice blinked, arching an eyebrow. “Why’s that?”
Victor looked at her again, nervousness and mirth warring for space in his eyes. “I think you would have made a grand p-puppet.”
Alice wouldn’t realize until later that he was the first person to make her laugh in a long time.
-TTV: Shades of what happened on Alice's birthday in "Finding You" there.-
Yeah! I'm pretty sure I wrote this first, so I guess some of this carried over into that? Anyway, a long awaited (for me anyway) return to one of my favorite movies here, with supercop!Alice and regular cop!Victor. This is a reworking of the scene where Nick tells Danny about why he became a police officer. Their scene was a lot funnier, but then again Nick's backstory wasn't quite as dramatic as Alice's (uncle he idealized was a cop). I figured it worked well for the prompt and Alice's character -- she never wants to see another child victimized like she was. I also liked showing how her relationship with Victor is growing -- she's iffy about him at first, like Nick with Danny, but she comes to like and even love him (like Nick with Danny). I know by writing this that I'm essentially eliminating Bumby being a part of the Neighborhood Watch Association that makes up the villains, but honestly? The only role I could see him in is Skinner, and I don't have any problems putting Barkis in that spot. Skinner is SUPPOSED to be obviously evil, anyway -- Bumby you're not sure about (or, at least, don't suspect just HOW evil he is). He might be too dark a villain for this movie anyway -- despite the gorier parts, Hot Fuzz is in every respect a comedy. Barkis fits that role a little better.
-D: Did you ever come up with an idea for who should play the Andys?-
Oh yeah! The Tweedles will definitely be the butcher boys/movers, while the March Hare and the Dormouse will play the Andys! Actually, I think I'll have the police station staffed mostly by Wonderland folk -- I already want Hatter as the incompetent idiot who keeps asking Nick/Alice for help. And I still love the idea of William as the villain. XD William needs more evil in his life, damn it. He's too overshadowed by Nell.
-TTV: *strange look*-
Anyway! I do hope you enjoyed that. And I hope everyone's New Year's have started off on a positive note. Now I have to see if anyone's done anything with tumblr, which is very oddly quiet. Hmmm. Well, there's always TV Tropes.
