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bedlamsbard ([personal profile] bedlamsbard) wrote2007-06-19 05:12 pm
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CSI:NY fic: Bardverse snapshot

I leave for Rhode Island on Saturday. Yay? Also, hopefully once I'm there, I will be able to figure out how to connect my laptop to the Internet, otherwise I might disappear into the Atlantic! Rhode Island is a very tiny state; you never know.

Also, fic. More Flack and LaMontagne in New Orleans.



"Jackie Schneider -- they call him the German -- and Rick Paolini," LaMontagne said, sounding disgusted. "Proof that New Orleans really does have a little bit of everything."

"Mafia?" Flack said.

"Capos to the Devil, who's otherwise known as Nero Vallone. Just another hardass tryin' to make the city his playground by killin' off everyone in his path." He cast a jaded eye over the two Mafioso and added, "They'll scatter as soon as we go for them."

Flack glanced over, mock-casual even though the windows of the car were tinted. "They haven't made us yet."

"I've picked both of them up before," LaMontagne said. "Any chance I got of taking them by surprise is ten years in the hole."

Flack smirked. "But they don't know me," he said, unclipping his badge from his belt and sliding it into his pocket. He took off his tie and and tossed it into the back of the car, then rolled up his sleeves.

LaMontagne was grinning. "Don't forget your piece," he said.

"I've never met a mobster who wasn't carrying," Flack remarked, touching the butt of his gun thoughtfully. He wasn't wearing a police issue .38, but his own piece. It'd do. "Flank 'em?"

"You distract them, I'll come up behind." LaMontagne was the first out of hte car, heading away from Schneider and Paolini, around the bakc of the block. Flack waited five minutes and then got out.

He kept his sunglasses on and walked slow, with the faux-casual he'd seen Constantine's guys pull off more than once. He was pulling out a chair at their cafe table before they even realized he was there.

"You must be Vallone's boys," he said as both their hands disappeared beneath the table.

"Maybe," Schneider said warily. "Who wants to know?"

"Name's DiNozzo," Flack said, exaggerating his accent. "I work for Danny Messer."

"Why do we care?" Paolini asked.

Flack shrugged. "I work for Danny, Danny works for Val Constantine, Val works for the Commission -- you know how it is. Especially since your boss just asked the Commission to back up his claim, but hey, if I've got the wrong guys just say so and I'll keep walkin'."

"Funny," Schneider remarked, "you don't look Italian."

"Well, my pa was half Mick but we don't like to talk about that in polite company," Flack said, grinning and showing all his teeth doing it. LaMontagne was coming out through the cafe doors, hand on his gun. "So whaddaya say, boys? You wanna run it down for me, or should I just call my boss and to tell with the prelims?"

"You got something for me first," Paolini said, staring him down.

"Right," Flack said, reaching down. Both mobsters' eyes sharpened, bodies tensing. "I almost forgot." He put his badge on the table. "Man, am I stupid or what?"

Paolini swung around, right into the barrel of LaMontagne's gun. "Hi there, boys," the detective said brightly. "It's been a while since your last arrest, hasn't it?"

Schneider looked for escape and Flack put his gun on the table next to his badge, hand easy on the body-warm metal.

"Let's talk about some dead hookers," LaMontagne said.

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-20 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Flack. How badly did it hurt him, to have to mention Danny like that? Is he angry that he didn't leave the Mafia behind with the move? I'm glad to see more about him, though!!
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-20 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately for Flack, and he knows this, the Mafia have a presence in pretty much every major city and some of the smaller ones. He probably could have forgotten about it if he came to Ellensburg. :D

He was prepared to do it -- obviously, the first thing he thinks of when the word "mob" crosses anyone's lips is Danny -- so it was just a matter of compartmentalizing. There's another scene, which I didn't write, that occurs right after this, where LaMontagne asks who Danny Messer is and Flack tells him. After that? Drinking ensues. (Also, I have the idea that, like, three days later Danny actually does come to New Orleans to talk to Vallone, and the New Orleans mob is really suspicious. Then Danny hunts down Flack.)

(Also, I figured out The Very Last Bardverse Story Ever, and another one on the way. You know, in case I ever decide to write in this 'verse seriously again.)

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Also, I figured out The Very Last Bardverse Story Ever,

I think I shed tears reading this statement, and they weren't HAPPY tears. I love this verse too much to want it to end :(

You know, in case I ever decide to write in this 'verse seriously again.

Haha, yeah, right, exactly!
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I figured out two more Bardverse stories. Quick looks at them are up, because I had to write about them or do.

Strangely enough, Danny doesn't figure significantly in either of them, which is why I think I'll never write them, because the Bardverse started out being All About Danny.

And by seriously, I mean "novel-length."

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, just saw the post while going through my flist, so I'm heading to read that right now :D

Novel-length is awesome, though!
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Novel-length is long. *pointed stare*
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but HAVE TO WRITE A NOVEL FOR SCHOOL. Also, lots of ficathons! Which are all your fault!

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
but HAVE TO WRITE A NOVEL FOR SCHOOL

This is true.

Also, lots of ficathons!

Also true.

Which are all your fault!

I accept full blame for this.




But so so very awesome....
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...on the bright side, I've written more complete fic this year than I have in, like, the past two years. Which is a good thing.

I am this close to writing a Supernatural/Ghost Rider crossover with Dean as the ghost rider and Sam as the girl, because oh my God, have you seen it? Possible ranting and meta forthcoming.

Well, at least I'm a productive member of fandom again.

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't seen Ghost Rider. I keep meaning to, though!

Well, at least I'm a productive member of fandom again.

SEE?! Look on the BRIGHT SIDE of these things! :D
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
It has its points, but those are mostly outnumber by how illogical it is. I spent the movie going "Supernatural did this better! Supernatural did this better and they haven't even done this yet! ...oooh, that'd make a good fic. I should write that. Oh my God, I did this better and all I did was make James Norrington Hell's gofer and Will Turner Hell's occasional handyman/bounty hunter/gofer! WHY DO YOU DO THESE THINGS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO? DIE HOLLYWOOD DIE."

Hurrah?

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hollywood sucks like that. I'll still see it, if only because I have a wee crush on Nic Cage.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I tried writing meta, but all it turned into was ranting when what I really wanted to get into was today's fascination with Hell and the Devil -- in the sense that the Ghost Rider is the Devil's bounty hunter, yes? But you never hear about what Heaven's got walking around on Earth -- not in Hollywood, not in comics, not even in fiction a lot of the time. I mean, unless SPN has done something along those lines and that would be really cool, only I think I'd've heard about it by now. /rant

*dramatic sigh*

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I mean, the Constantine movie had the angel Gabriel walking around, though it wasn't such a big part. But they do have movies like that... the new "Evan Almighty" and the older "Bruce Almighty" are about the Heavenly guys on earth, sorta. There are movies about Good and Evil competing for a soul, etc.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
But you never really see the same sort of thing that you'll see in regards to Hell. You won't see guardian angels in action/adventure -- Heaven's bounty hunter to counteract Hell's, for example. I'm a big believer in balance, and it's never done. It could be very cool, but it's never done. A human vessel for a heavenly power, I mean, and used seriously -- not like the "Almighty" movies, which I haven't seen. And Constantine's Gabriel turned out to be evil.

I'd like to see that, I think. The gray lines only from a different side, white into gray, not black -- the other way 'round.

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY OKAY SO what about "Good Omens", then? Because man if Aziraphale totally isn't Heaven's bounty hunter. And okay, it's a book, but they're totally making it into a movie at some point!

I think the reason it doesn't happen is because heaven is the "good" side, and they don't need to resort to bounties and action/adventure in order to win. They have mortal champions for that reason :D

Yeah, I think it'd be interesting to really see it, though.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't read it, so therefore...can't really weigh in. I've seen it a little bit more in fiction than in film, but it's a totally different media. I mean -- the only thing I can think of is Buffy and Angel, and that's a bit more relative.

No, no, that's what I'm talking about! You don't really see mortal champions so much. I mean, there was Buffy and Angel, to an extent, but that's not the same thing. It's not so blatant. I mean, okay, in Ghost Rider you have the Ghost Rider, who's Hell's bounty hunter, and in Supernatural you have the Demon and his kids, who are...something or other, but obviously related to hell. What does Heaven got? I've seen it maybe once or twice even in fic; the only thing I can think of in canon is BtVS/ATS.

I have angels in my original universe, but not really the Christian type, because of the whole "not Christian" thing, but that's the closest I've gotten. /frustrated.

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
You should read Good Omens. Terry Pratchet + Neil Gaiman = Awesometastic.

Okay, yeah, I guess I see what you mean. I never think of it, though, because the agents of Hell are always much cooler than the agents of Heaven would be.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Neil Gaiman has never really done all that much for me. Neither has Terry Pratchet.

Of course, on second thought Heaven doesn't actually need to send people down to Earth to drag souls up to Heaven like Hell does, but it'd be keeping stuff away from Hell, yes? Keeping the balance.

Speaking of which, have you read [livejournal.com profile] rahirah's Buffyverse novel "Necessary Evils"? All about keeping the balance between good and evil, and how shades of gray can blur the lines.

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, I know, cause I've tried to pimp Neil Gaiman at you before and you said that, but Good Omens is a little bit of Neil, a little bit of Terry, and so it's something quite different from both of them.

Maybe that's why Heaven has the Church... to keep balance.

No, I haven't read that one. I don't tend to read Buffy-'verse unless it's a pairing that I really like.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves hand* Yeah, I don't know, I just think the idea of Heaven's people on Earth is really cool...

Spuffy?

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Heck no. Spike/Xander, ftw. Also, Spike/Dawn, but only in future-fic where Dawn is 18, cause otherwise creeeeeeepy.

:D I agree, it would be cool, and it's totally not done enough.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-23 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Woe. I'm Spike/Buffy all the way. Season Five is the only season of Buffy I own.

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-23 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Spike/Buffy squicks me. Buffybot, man. *shudders* I own s5, though!

[identity profile] limmenel.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
OH HEY I just thought of another example, in the book that I'm reading RIGHT NOW, because I'm forgetful like that.

The Dresden Files. The books, more than the TV show. Like, there's a guy named Michael who's actually a warrior for Heaven (no relation to the angel), and he's one of the three warriors on Earth entrusted with a Sword of God or whatever it's called to fight the demons on Earth.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-23 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, sweet, cool. I notice that books are more likely to do MOST things, but that's because there are more of them.

Actually, I just remembered a Hercules: the Legendary Journeys fic that had angels on Earth. Huh. Cool!

(Anonymous) 2007-06-20 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Funny," Schneider remarked, "you don't look Italian."

"Well, my pa was half Mick but we don't like to talk about that in polite company," Flack said, grinning and showing all his teeth doing it.


I can picture this scene very clearly. Especially the above exchange. Flack's quick thinking is impressive.
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[identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com 2007-06-20 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Flack's quick thinking is very impressive. It's a good skill for a homicide detective. (Although I can't remember how many times we've actually seen it in canon, but I'm almost certain we have.)