Heroes BigBoom -- Don't Worry cover art

[out_there]

Okay, I confess: William Fichtner has absorbed so much of my head that I spent this morning plotting out a PB AU with FIB-Agent-Michael¹ and completely forgot to mention that hereos_bigboom has gone live. These are the covers I made for megmetthews20's story, Don't Worry.


¹ Michael would be the young hotshot agent transferred to Alex's team to help him bring in Shales. They wouldn't get on too well to start with, and then both Michael and Alex would track Shales to the same location (from different hints, but still it would be hunches they couldn't use to convince any other agent), and together they'd arrest Shales. But Shales would make a run for it, and Alex would aim without thinking but Michael would lunge and throw Alex's aim off so he only wounds Shales. They back each others' stories up and develop trust and work as a scarily smart fugitive-hunting team until Linc gets arrested and Michael tries not to implode. Alex would use contacts -- and a lot of lying -- to get his hands on the paperwork for Linc's case and there would be hiding out int eh country with Pam and Cameron, working through the case and... okay, I didn't work out the end. My trip to work is only an hour long, so I didn't get past the "working out if Linc's innocent" part.

But I'm sure that together, they'd fight crime work something out and possibly take down the company. But weirdly enough, I don't think it'd be slash. (That is weird for me.) Not unless it somehow ended up Michael/Alex/Pam, and threesomes generally don't seem believable to me, given these characters. But there would be cute scenes of Michael teaching Cameron how to fold a crane.

If I'm not singing along to music as I drive or listening to podcasts, these are the thoughts that entertain me.

Comments

[laylee.livejournal.com]

OMG, I leeeeerve William Fichtner! His episode of The west Wing is one of my all time favourites.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, which episode was that? I have a secret hope its in the first two seasons, because then I could watch when I get home.

I mean, I could claim that it's been so long since I've sat down and watched WW that I've blurred, but it's more that odd fannish phenomenon of falling for a new actor and suddenly finding you've seen them in a whole bunch of things but never put it together.

[laylee.livejournal.com]

Sorry to disappoint you, babe, but it was season five's 'The Supremes'. The one with Glenn Close. When he and Glenn start with the verbal sparring I want to leap into my TV and marry them both!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

And yet, due to the wonders of the internet, I found the commentary of that ep on YouTube, talking about William Fichtner playing it. It was awesome.

[aurora]

a PB AU with FIB-Agent-Michael
!!!!!!!!!

I want to read this so much, omg.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*totally has not already written snippets of this story*

[aurora]

*totally isn't above begging for (more of) that story*

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Mahone always gets his fugitive, always. Sometimes within the first few hours and sometimes it takes a couple of weeks, but he's never lost one yet. His track record should buy him some respect; instead, he gets this.

"You want me to hand over the Shales case?" Alex isn't yelling, not yet. But it's a close thing. "You think some kid fresh out of the academy can find him when I can't?"

"Mahone," Jason Searby tries, and then softens it to, "Alex. Calm down."

"I am calm. I've been up for almost thirty hours," because he'd been close to Shales, he'd been *so* close, but by the time he got to the Middle of Nowhere, Idaho there'd been one more body: seventeen year old girl this time, bled out slowly, still goddamn warm to touch, "but I'm being very patient in the face of bureaucratic idiocy!"

Now, possibly, he's yelling. Just as well he slammed the office door shut when he stormed in.

"No-one's handing over your case," Jason tries again. "And he's not fresh out of the academy--"

"Let me spell this out in terms you'll understand," Alex says, pushing a hand through his hair and taking a grounding breath. "If. I. Can't. Find. Shales. There's no way in hell some kid with no experience stands a chance."

"He's smart, Alex." Flipping open a manila folder, Jason spills the kid's employee file across the desk. Alex only lets himself glance down for a second -- takes in the high numbers of an IQ test, a scrawl of 'satisfactory fieldwork, avoid where possible' and a picture of wide-eyed white kid who'd get carded in any bar -- but Jason notices it. And Jason knows him well enough to know that he might be tired, frustrated and feeling very insulted, but Alex isn't stupid enough to argue against those results. "Smart enough they want him chained to a desk but don't want to say it. And he's not taking over the case. He'll be working for you, as part of your team. He might bring new insight to the case."

"I doubt that," Alex mutters, grabbing the kid's file and stalking out. He takes a vicious pleasure in slamming the door again.

***

[aurora]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(And they haven't even met yet, omg.)

[out-there.livejournal.com]

There's something kind of awesome about imagining Mahone pre-Shales. (Although, hmmm, any idea how long ago the whole Shales thing happened? Years before he met Michael/PB started? Or months? I have no idea.) I love the idea of him being a snarky workaholic who loves his family dearly but isn't always the nicest person to live with. I have issues regarding the idea of Mahone cheating on Pam, but playing with his first reactions to Michael? Too fun to resist.

[kernezelda]

*raises hand* I would read it!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*TWIRLS*

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

...ok, now I really want this AU to exist.

Also! Due to my new-found William Fichtner adoration, I found someone who has posted scenes from MANY of the TV/movies he's been in, including his turn on the West Wing. (Also including the commentary from that scene where they talk about how awesome WF is. ♥)

Here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Kouheikun

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Hee. You know, I actually saw the commentary of that scene -- sneakily on work computers, because I stayed back after the office was deserted -- and then started loving the wonders of YouTube. The main wonder being I got to see WF's snippets on Grace Under Fire and MDs (which, okay, looked like knock-off House/Scrubs medical schlock, but had WF AND JOHN HANNAH so there's a chance I'll be watching more of that via the wonders of YouTube).