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

[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!

[cmk418]

This was the first thing I wrote for the fandom and I just had a blast doing it. Glad you liked it.

(It bookends nicely with the Shakespeare one, don't you think?)

[michele659.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree- I was thinking about the Shakespeare drabble while I was reading this.
I love your icon! Does it come from that moment when Billy quotes Hawthorne? That's the face I was thinking of when I commented,the WTF one!