Questions - L.A. Confidential
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Ed drives to Bisbee, knowing that it's a mistake. He doesn't have to see them after all. Seeing them would cause more trouble than it's worth. He just wants to check in on them, make sure they're still okay, make sure they're still together. It's been on his mind these past few months. Has Bud's arm healed? Is Lynn running that dress shop that she'd talked about? Is her hair still blonde or has it changed back to her natural color? Is she still beautiful?
Is Bud?
Has Bud found a place to work? Is he bored out of his mind and dreaming about going back to L.A.? Does he think about Ed at all? Does he think about the two of them together, how in sync they were, if only for a moment?
God knows Ed does.
He spies Bud walking down the main street, slow and deliberate, with a slight hitch in his step. Bud looks worn and tired, until Lynn comes out to greet him in front of the dress shop, then the smile lights up his face, and he transforms.
Ed is taken back to one of those nights, when he and Jack Vincennes were on stakeout outside of Lynn's home. Bud, sitting on the couch, Lynn's feet in his lap, looking more relaxed and at home than Ed had ever seen him. That was the moment Ed knew he was in trouble.
From a distance, Ed watches the two of them together, and it answers a question that had dominated his mind all the way up here- is there still a place for him in their lives?
He turns the car around and drives back to L.A.
Ed drives to Bisbee, knowing that it's a mistake. He doesn't have to see them after all. Seeing them would cause more trouble than it's worth. He just wants to check in on them, make sure they're still okay, make sure they're still together. It's been on his mind these past few months. Has Bud's arm healed? Is Lynn running that dress shop that she'd talked about? Is her hair still blonde or has it changed back to her natural color? Is she still beautiful?
Is Bud?
Has Bud found a place to work? Is he bored out of his mind and dreaming about going back to L.A.? Does he think about Ed at all? Does he think about the two of them together, how in sync they were, if only for a moment?
God knows Ed does.
He spies Bud walking down the main street, slow and deliberate, with a slight hitch in his step. Bud looks worn and tired, until Lynn comes out to greet him in front of the dress shop, then the smile lights up his face, and he transforms.
Ed is taken back to one of those nights, when he and Jack Vincennes were on stakeout outside of Lynn's home. Bud, sitting on the couch, Lynn's feet in his lap, looking more relaxed and at home than Ed had ever seen him. That was the moment Ed knew he was in trouble.
From a distance, Ed watches the two of them together, and it answers a question that had dominated his mind all the way up here- is there still a place for him in their lives?
He turns the car around and drives back to L.A.
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Date: 2020-06-28 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-28 07:29 pm (UTC)L.A. Confidential is a movie from the late 90s with Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, and Kevin Spacey. The chemistry between Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce is wonderful and the whole film has a very slashy vibe to it. It's pretty much a procedural, based on the Elmore Leonard book of the same name and I highly recommend it.
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Date: 2020-06-28 09:45 pm (UTC)Oh, thanks - I was thinking it was a show and I really don't need to be adding any new series right now! I couldn't find it streaming anywhere so I bought a used copy off Amazon for $1.52 (after tax and shipping it was still less than $6 LOL). Also put the book on hold at the library. Because I'm easily swayed like that. :D