Fic: Deadman Walking

[thisbluespirit]

All right, I confess. I wrote a ficlet before I posted anything! (For my fake show no. 1, that is). As you can see, because I then stole the title back off myself. As you do...

Story: Deadman Walking
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 264
Characters/Pairings: Mary, Deadman
Warnings: None. (Well, except for nothing happening, no fun ghosts and so on.)

Summary: Mary sees someone surprisingly familiar outside of the hotel.


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Deadman Walking

The first time she saw him alive it gave her a jolt; a moment of electric shock that stopped her in her tracks, but when she turned around she couldn’t find him again amongst the mass of people.

She hadn’t expected that. Normally when she or anyone else saw him, he wasn’t at his best: pale, a stab wound to the chest. (Well, dead, basically.) It was only in her mind’s eye that she saw him as he once must have been; never in reality.

It scared her, because given the time she’d been having, she could easily be going mad and this might be the final proof.

The second time, he was walking towards her along the street and she could hardly mistake him. She stopped, someone behind her bumping into her and muttering as they passed on. He saw her, but there was no recognition in his face, though he smiled and winked as he headed back up towards the town centre.

She watched him go and wondered how to explain that away. Maybe it was impossible, but nevertheless relatively simple: maybe Deadman was actually still alive? His appearances at the hotel could be some sort of temporal anomaly, or a warning, a projection back in time, not a haunting left by something that had already happened. Maybe there was a chance to prevent whatever him winding up as a bloodied corpse in a hotel bathroom? That would be a good thing.

It could be, she thought, and then smiled to herself because Harrison wasn’t going to like it when she told him.

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Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oh I like it!

(And you're sneaky!)

[thisbluespirit]

I am a bit, yes.

Thanks! :-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well now I feel a bit better about posting my own fake-TV-show fic! ;D You succumbed first!

And it was very good indeed - I wonder what Harrison will have to say (that was a hint, by the way...)?

[thisbluespirit]

Wait... you what? :lol: But, sire, waht of the Black Bore?

:-p

And thanks. And, no, it's not the continuing kind of fic. It gave me my central dynamics and the solution to the problem I set myself. (So, actually, maybe I'm lying - maybe I wrote this before the second post? My memory...)

Plus, the other thing about this, is I can write original fic and have suitable icons. It's very entertaining.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

The best of both worlds!

Seriously, I think you've got some ideas and characters here that are too good to waste - do something with them.

I didn't even write fic about my own show...this meme has bitten me bad, it would seem. Must...resist...

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks. If I only save them to use for runaway_tales or something, I'm sure I will. I find it's weird to write fic properly for them because I cast them - does that make sense? It's like, even though I really didn't mean to, I'm heading somewhere towards RPF in a strange way and that squicks me out a bit.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that, actually. I too fear and avoid RPF, but as you say when you're writing about characters who are portrayed by actual actors, it's...it's something to think about, anyway. But yes, if you ever revisit this area, I'd be interested to see what you did with it.

[thisbluespirit]

On the other hand, some writers just do that sort of casting anyway, I suppose. Cornelia Funke, for instance. (The Thief Lord is dedicated to "Bob Hoskins, who looks just like Victor", which made me :lol: when I read it, and she always had Brendan Fraser in mind for Mo in Inkheart). It just occurred to me and then I worried. But none of it was done like that at all.

Revisit? Oh. Have we moved on while I've been away, because I haven't. I had to have something to think about on the train. Heh.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

:D

[clocketpatch]

I love this meme so much. The shows and the fic coming out of it is epic.

[thisbluespirit]

It is a truly magnificent meme. :-)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

I knewwwwwwww it! You!

This is the exact scene that I was tempted to write, by the way. HILARIOUS. I love how Deadman smiles, and I love how Mary reasons so logically that it must just be a temporal anomaly. Oh, of course, just a temporal anomaly. Not weird at all after everything else that's happened!

[thisbluespirit]

Oh no. I've scuppered my chance of fic from you now, haven't I?

*goes away to sob into pillow*

Thanks, though! :-D