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piecesofalice Jul. 7th, 2008 10:47 pm)
piecesofalice Jul. 7th, 2008 10:47 pm)Oh, zany personal canon where Dani and Marshall were together and happy. How I love thee.
Little quick Dani fic, then I'm finished for today. I promise.
TITLE: Dedication
FANDOM(S): Dani Reese (Dani/Marshall, with a hint of Dani/Charlie) (Life & My Name is Marshall)
RATING: PG
DISCLAIMER: Not not mine.
Dedication
AU, Dani/Marshall-verse, 7th July 2008
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NOTES: I was wondering why the idea of Dani/Marshall just clicked - and this sort of spewed out. Mmm, violent. I also find the part of Dani - you know, that part that still probably thinks she's worthless and a junkie with bad hair really fascinating, thus this. That, and Dani/Marshall-verse? IS THE NEW CANON BLACK, MAN. And you all know how I feel about C&C Music Factory, and I know Marshall does too.
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Dedicated to Fred Weller and Sarah Shahi, and the beautiful children they would make together.
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"You dedicated a song to me."
"Yes."
"On the radio."
"Yes."
"'Everybody Dance Now' by C&C Music Factory?"
"Yes."
Dani narrowed her eyes and watched her boyfriend reading the newspaper like she'd not even spoken.
Then, she pulled it away from him and took him to bed like he deserved, not even stopping to get his pants off all the way or when he let out the chorus of the song that had made her love him just that little bit more.
---
To say Charlie reminded her of Marshall was like saying Canada was like North America. Close enough for foreigners to get confused, but different enough to distinguish in her mind that you can't go back, even when poutine was on offer.
No, really, because Charlie and Marshall were like fries and gravy and cheese and she was a recovering alcoholic and no doubt this all linked up somewhere in her brain, but it was all still a little fried from the excess and lies and late nights with a needle in her arm.
She'd stand in front of the mirror in the mornings, her hair wet and her face bare, and wondered if she'd always be a recovering junkie cop who'd somehow gotten a second chance at everything but the happy life she'd left behind. Because that was the reality - a fiance, a home and a career, a love and a depth of purpose that was seeded in faith and a man who made her toast in the shape of hearts that gave into a terror trip into hell and ended with him slipping his hand out of hers in the white walled rooms of a rehab clinic.
But really? He didn't give up on her. She gave up on him.
Just like Charlie's wife, in a different prison in a different way.
---
The tiny similarities made her eyes crease at the corners, like she that time she thought she saw her high school best friend one morning and had lifted her hand to say hi.
But no, it wasn't them but another woman with a far pointier nose, so she had to go back to drinking her coffee, black, alone, against the faux wood grain of a crap diner round the corner from her house and hope that no-one noticed how that one desperate gesture seemed to sum up the last two years in one go.
Charlie came with her, some mornings, and she (however reluctantly) felt better. Because, on those mornings she was feeling self-indulgently pitiful, it was like a tiny apartment off Hollywood where the gas cut out constantly and the neighbours fought over what crappy game show they were going to watch.
And. It was nice.
Bitter, but nice, and she looked out the window to see the sun.
---
He never knew, never asked. That was the biggest difference, because Marshall couldn't leave enough alone while Charlie seemed to understand the need for silence at the end of a heavy sentence.
Both loved to talk, until she felt her ears were bleeding, and while Marshall-Dani could smile and push the chatter into soft pillows and blue-grey sheeting, Charlie-Dani tried to hold her face together in a mask of doe-eyes and messy hair because you can't go back.
Even when looking into blue eyes and pale skin of a haunted man who seemed to understand her more and more everyday without saying a word.
---
Sometimes, when the cable was out and the trees were black, she'd hold her cell phone and just breathe.
Because she had held everything but it wasn't enough, because she had nothing but a job and a partner and a past to live up to, because Marshall-her-ex still texted her with the meaning of "palaver" while Charlie-her-partner spoke it into her ears over coffee and she wondered how she managed to find the two men in the entire universe who had a subscription to Word of the Day.
Her mother would speak of circles and serpents, and Dani kind of began to understand.
---
"You dedicated me a song."
"It's your birthday."
"You dedicated me a song. On the radio."
"Yes."
"'Blackbird' by The Beatles."
"Yep."
Dani Reese thought of what goes around, comes around; a ratty apartment and a man who's hair had a life of it's own on a Sunday morning, and smiled.
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Fin.
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Coming soon - a fic based on "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang!
Little quick Dani fic, then I'm finished for today. I promise.
TITLE: Dedication
FANDOM(S): Dani Reese (Dani/Marshall, with a hint of Dani/Charlie) (Life & My Name is Marshall)
RATING: PG
DISCLAIMER: Not not mine.
Dedication
AU, Dani/Marshall-verse, 7th July 2008
---
NOTES: I was wondering why the idea of Dani/Marshall just clicked - and this sort of spewed out. Mmm, violent. I also find the part of Dani - you know, that part that still probably thinks she's worthless and a junkie with bad hair really fascinating, thus this. That, and Dani/Marshall-verse? IS THE NEW CANON BLACK, MAN. And you all know how I feel about C&C Music Factory, and I know Marshall does too.
---
Dedicated to Fred Weller and Sarah Shahi, and the beautiful children they would make together.
---
"You dedicated a song to me."
"Yes."
"On the radio."
"Yes."
"'Everybody Dance Now' by C&C Music Factory?"
"Yes."
Dani narrowed her eyes and watched her boyfriend reading the newspaper like she'd not even spoken.
Then, she pulled it away from him and took him to bed like he deserved, not even stopping to get his pants off all the way or when he let out the chorus of the song that had made her love him just that little bit more.
---
To say Charlie reminded her of Marshall was like saying Canada was like North America. Close enough for foreigners to get confused, but different enough to distinguish in her mind that you can't go back, even when poutine was on offer.
No, really, because Charlie and Marshall were like fries and gravy and cheese and she was a recovering alcoholic and no doubt this all linked up somewhere in her brain, but it was all still a little fried from the excess and lies and late nights with a needle in her arm.
She'd stand in front of the mirror in the mornings, her hair wet and her face bare, and wondered if she'd always be a recovering junkie cop who'd somehow gotten a second chance at everything but the happy life she'd left behind. Because that was the reality - a fiance, a home and a career, a love and a depth of purpose that was seeded in faith and a man who made her toast in the shape of hearts that gave into a terror trip into hell and ended with him slipping his hand out of hers in the white walled rooms of a rehab clinic.
But really? He didn't give up on her. She gave up on him.
Just like Charlie's wife, in a different prison in a different way.
---
The tiny similarities made her eyes crease at the corners, like she that time she thought she saw her high school best friend one morning and had lifted her hand to say hi.
But no, it wasn't them but another woman with a far pointier nose, so she had to go back to drinking her coffee, black, alone, against the faux wood grain of a crap diner round the corner from her house and hope that no-one noticed how that one desperate gesture seemed to sum up the last two years in one go.
Charlie came with her, some mornings, and she (however reluctantly) felt better. Because, on those mornings she was feeling self-indulgently pitiful, it was like a tiny apartment off Hollywood where the gas cut out constantly and the neighbours fought over what crappy game show they were going to watch.
And. It was nice.
Bitter, but nice, and she looked out the window to see the sun.
---
He never knew, never asked. That was the biggest difference, because Marshall couldn't leave enough alone while Charlie seemed to understand the need for silence at the end of a heavy sentence.
Both loved to talk, until she felt her ears were bleeding, and while Marshall-Dani could smile and push the chatter into soft pillows and blue-grey sheeting, Charlie-Dani tried to hold her face together in a mask of doe-eyes and messy hair because you can't go back.
Even when looking into blue eyes and pale skin of a haunted man who seemed to understand her more and more everyday without saying a word.
---
Sometimes, when the cable was out and the trees were black, she'd hold her cell phone and just breathe.
Because she had held everything but it wasn't enough, because she had nothing but a job and a partner and a past to live up to, because Marshall-her-ex still texted her with the meaning of "palaver" while Charlie-her-partner spoke it into her ears over coffee and she wondered how she managed to find the two men in the entire universe who had a subscription to Word of the Day.
Her mother would speak of circles and serpents, and Dani kind of began to understand.
---
"You dedicated me a song."
"It's your birthday."
"You dedicated me a song. On the radio."
"Yes."
"'Blackbird' by The Beatles."
"Yep."
Dani Reese thought of what goes around, comes around; a ratty apartment and a man who's hair had a life of it's own on a Sunday morning, and smiled.
---
Fin.
---
Coming soon - a fic based on "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang!
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And yes, personal, personal canon.
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Right?
:D
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And just... I flail at this because... Dani and Marshall! They were happy once, she was happy once and I think... with Charlie she's going to get that again.
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To say Charlie reminded her of Marshall was like saying Canada was like North America. Close enough for foreigners to get confused, but different enough to distinguish in her mind that you can't go back, even when poutine was on offer.
Most Americans have no clue what poutine is, but I still love it. And it suggests that she's been to Canada before since she knows what poutine is, and I'm guessing that it was a six month anniversary present from Marshall. Or maybe that's where he proposed. &hearts OMG I LOVED THIS! AND I LOVE YOU FOR TURNING IT INTO CREWS/REESE! So perfect. I love you.
EDIT: I forgot to tell you that your song choices were SO PERFECTLY IN CHARACTER! Marshall would totally dedicate Everybody Dance Now, because it's adorable and it matches his need to constantly make jokes even in the most serious or romantic of times, and it would endearingly romantic to Dani. And Blackbird was such a great choice for Charlie to dedicate, because it's such a simple, quiet, beautiful song about healing and finding that person inside of you that isn't so damaged, and it just... gah, it matches so perfectly. He always shocks Dani with his serious, insightful side, and she would be so touched by that song (she would never tell him that, of course).
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2. Man, you make a girl feel good, y'know? And you picked up on everything I sort of slipped in there - all the similarities and differences and Dani's reasons for keeping Charlie at bay, while wanting sort of to get closer. I think that's why I love the idea of Dani/Marshall, because it works better on a romantic level, but still has all the parts of Dani/Charlie I love.
3. AND YES about the songs. Man, you got it. And I love you for it. *walks away preening*
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♥!
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