Loss Aversion (0)
Posted 18 February, 2008 in D: 2007, F: Casino Royale, Pairing: Het, Rating: PG13
loss aversion
This is how it might go:
James Bond adjusts his bow tie as he stands outside the casino. Cars whiz by on the road and expensively dressed people pass him on the left and right, seemingly unaware that they might get run over.
James looks at the casino and its bright lights. He remembers Solange, dead in the hammock, covered in sand, eyes open and staring. All her money and beauty hadn’t stopped her death. Death can’t be stopped. Perhaps the only alternative is to delay it awhile. Or to stop thinking about it.
“Sod it,” says James, pulls off his bowtie, and disappears. No one ever sees him again. Le Chiffre wins the poker game and Vesper Lynd lives. And that’s how it might have gone. If James had known the future, he might have given up $100 million to terrorists in order to save Vesper’s life. Or he might have tried something else. Like crawling onto Le Chiffre’s yacht and opening his guts out onto the deck. Then the whole point would have been moot. Death can’t be stopped. But if you’re James Bond, and you have your armor on, you can at least delay your own.
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In the backseat of a black jeep on a back street (0)
Posted 17 July, 2007 in D: 2007, F: Dark Angel, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
For winter_baby. Important note!: for the purposes of the story, “present day” is considered to be about a year after the events of “freak nation.”
Present Day.
They wake Alec up every hour on the hour for at least a week. Just as some kind of merciless clock in his brain calculates that it has been two weeks since he was captured, the same clock ticks off the minutes as he dozes – 58, 59, 60 – and then a guard rattles the bars or shoves a stick in his ribs and he stumbles to his feet. Sometimes they take him out for questioning – sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they shove a plate of food in under the bars. He gobbles it and then slumps back against the wall, trying to sleep, praying to God or Sandeman or whoever’s out there –
Please let Max come save me. Please.
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Where Steel & Water Collide (the Black-Eyed Daughter remix) (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2007, F: Veronica Mars, Pairing: Slash, Rating: PG13, Remixes
AU, post second season finale. written for remix redux (2007), remixing the story where steel and water collide, by soundingsea.
“Now keep good watch!” and they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say-
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!–Alfred Noyes
The Big Carry On (0)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2007, F: Friday Night Lights, Pairing: None, Rating: R
Tim & Tyra friendship fic, post “I Think We Should Have Sex.”
We’re both self-centered,
but the world revolves around us at the same speed.
– Jeffrey McDaniel. “Absence.”