Snafu 14

When last we saw our heroes, they were in a fair spot of trouble. Now that we return to them again...well, they're still in trouble, and it doesn't look like it's going to let up anytime soon.

( Murphy's Law is tattooed on the inside of every law enforcement officer's eyelids. )

*wicked grin*

In other news, I get to do the Tanglewood Boys for a school paper on gangs. How cool is that?

SWAT

Well, I should have been working on Snafu 15, but...well, actually I couldn't figure out how to start it. Hospital bed? Funeral? Bed, period? At the moment, I'm going with the funeral of several NYPD officers. No, I'm not saying who. It could be Crehan and Jarensky, it could be Danny and Aiden, it could be Mac after Amarelli bashed his head in with a garlic masher.

So, I was randomly inspired to move over to the other side of the USA (the West Coast, my coast) and write SWAT fic. SWAT, based lightly off the TV series of the same name, for those that don't know, stars Colin Farrell as Jim Street and Samuel L. Jackson as Sergeant "Hondo" Harrelson. It also happens to be one of my favorite movies, and the one that originally started up my cop obsession. It was one of those movies where, you see it once, you go out and buy the DVD without thinking twice. It ranks just behind Miracle as one of my favorite movies.

The movie broke my heart.

Now, you wouldn't think a PG-13 guns! action! hot guys! hot girls! movie would do that, but, well, it did. It happens to be one of the slashiest movies I've ever seen, and the fandom quota for this movie? Something close to zip. Also, there are handcuffs, and that is one of the moments that broke my brain.

So, slashfic, not very good, because I'm transcribing from what I scribbled out during class today.

( He chose the Job over his partner both times. )

The movie doesn't go in-depth at all, but Colin Farrell, at least in this movie, is one hell of an actor and so is Jeremy Renner, the guy who plays Brian Gamble, Street's ex-partner. I don't know if they meant the movie to come across the way I understood it, but - Jesus Christ. The insanity is there. The partnership, the betrayal, the way Street's still hanging on till that last moment. And the sense, at the end of the movie, that the only thing Street has left is SWAT. There's the same sense at the beginning of the movie, but in a more hopeful way: maybe Brian will come back, maybe he hasn't left for good, he's still alive. And at the end of the movie, Street's a SWAT officer.

And that's all.

SWAT is the only thing he has left.

( Tell me you left, partner. )