A Departed Drabble

[cmk418]

So I wrote a little tiny fic from Dignam's point-of-view. If you've seen the movie, it references Billy Costigan's SIU interview. If you haven't, it'll just seem weird and sort of vulgar. Profanity abounds.


The Reference

Hawthorne.

It rankled him. Who the fuck pulls Hawthorne out of his ass in the middle of an interview? And the way fucking Costigan said it, just drifting off his lips, dared either of them to ask the inevitable question. Dignam didn’t have to. He knew it was Hawthorne. Trainee probably pulled it from a book of quotations, knowing he could use it in a situation like this one. Dignam actually preferred playwrights – Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, and, naturally, David Mamet. Who needed flowery prose when a simple “Fuck you, cocksucker” would suffice?

Fucking Hawthorne can bite me, he thought, smiling.

Comments

[history-gurl.livejournal.com]

I just saw this movie last night. And I am so in love with it, and the characters, and the pacing, and the performances, and ... yeah, all of it.

This is perfect. It is Dignam, through and through. I send big kisses of joy for writing this. Write more? *g*

[michele659.livejournal.com]

That was one of my favorite moments in the movie! Here they are verbally battering poor Billy and in the middle of it he quotes Hawthorne!
Dignam's thoughts about it here match the look on his face in the movie perfectly!