The Calendar Post: Atonement

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Time for another Calendar Post (the proper one this time), and this month in my sueworld2003 fanart calendar, it's Gunn month. Well, to be completely accurate, it's J August Richards In Some Other Show Looking Utterly Yummy in a Suit Month, but let's not quibble about that.

I've only managed a drabble this time, I'm afraid, RL being how it currently is. Hope you like.

Setting: the suburban hell dimension, as seen in Underneath in AtS season 5
Rating: PG
Beta: Yes, I got this one beta'ed. Ignorance is not bliss. Many thanks to hello_spikey.

Atonement.





Guess I knew there had to be a catch. Guy like me rollin’ up to the courthouse in $1000 suits –making deals with the judge – playin’ golf with the D.A. weekends? I don’t think so.

Couldn’t last. And part of me always knew it. You turn your back on what you are – where you come from? Choice like that’ll turn around and bite you in the ass one day.

‘Cept wasn’t my ass got bit, was it?

The robots were kind of cool, though.

“Hey, hon? Oven light just went out. I need a bulb from the cellar.”

I go.

Comments

[elisi]

Very nice. Very very nice. Especially like the line about the robots, it somehow makes it all the more real.

[shapinglight]

Thank you. :)

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor old Gunn. :(

Great drabble love.

[shapinglight]

Nah, not really. Drabbles aren't my forte. But thanks, Sue. And the pic is wonderful. Just wish I could have done it justice.

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

I agree that the line about the robots really adds punch - reminds us of Gunn's more playful moments.

*hugs him*

[shapinglight]

Yes, poor Gunn. :hugs him too: :forgets to let go:

Thanks very much for your help, btw.

[whichclothes.livejournal.com]

I liked that very much. And the pic? Definitely yummy!

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Isn't he gorgeous?

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Gah. Those good intentions are a bitch. Pretty picture, sad tale.

[shapinglight]

Pretty picture, sad tale.

Yes, to both. Poor Gunn.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Gunn - beating himself up for the unforeseeable (or is it just me that never blamed him at all for Fred's death? They must have signed thousands of documents at WFH which didn't raise Old Ones).

That knowledge of what's coming, and the endless repetition of thought, guilt and pain, is very real here.

[shapinglight]

I didn't exactly blame him - how was he to know, after all? - but then again he should have known enough by then to realise there would be a price.

I suppose, like Anya in Selfless, he thought he would be the one paying it and was okay with that.

Anyway, can quite see why he'd never forgive himself.

[acacia5.livejournal.com]

Sue's picture is beautiful.
Poor Gunn. This gave me the shivers.

[shapinglight]

Sue's picture is beautiful.

It is, isn't it? Mind you, she had good material to work with. :)

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

The picture is brilliant and you have caught Gunn's inner voice nicely. Plus, the memory of Fred in the background makes the image a perfect match for the words.

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Thanks, Maz. Glad you liked it.

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

You're really captured Gunn's situation and dimemna there. You're underestimating your skills at drabble.

[shapinglight]

Thank you, love. I really don't think I'm very good at drabbles for all your kind words, but I do think I've improved a little this year. So that's something.