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The Other Ten Thousand Things by Lomedet (G)
Fandom: DEAD ZONE
Pairing: None
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lomedet
Why this must be read:
I love Walt, and this piece goes a long way towards explaining why. It takes three moments in Walt's life and uses them to plumb who he is and how he understands his life.
He turned to look at himself in the mirror.
A cop stared back at him. A cop who looked competent, and calm, and kind of scary, and a half a dozen other things Walt was pretty sure he wasn't.
During the ceremony, he found himself surrounded by dozens of competent, calm, and kind of scary cops who wore the faces of the men he’d gone through the Academy with. All through the boring speeches, he tried to figure out if everyone else was faking it as much as he was, and by the time the last name was called and the last hand shaken, he’d pretty much determined that yep, the uniform made every last one of them look ten times more confident than they actually were.
He'd only been on the force a few days when he figured out that this was true for every cop he knew.
The Other Ten Thousand Things
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:
lomedetWhy this must be read:
I love Walt, and this piece goes a long way towards explaining why. It takes three moments in Walt's life and uses them to plumb who he is and how he understands his life.
He turned to look at himself in the mirror.
A cop stared back at him. A cop who looked competent, and calm, and kind of scary, and a half a dozen other things Walt was pretty sure he wasn't.
During the ceremony, he found himself surrounded by dozens of competent, calm, and kind of scary cops who wore the faces of the men he’d gone through the Academy with. All through the boring speeches, he tried to figure out if everyone else was faking it as much as he was, and by the time the last name was called and the last hand shaken, he’d pretty much determined that yep, the uniform made every last one of them look ten times more confident than they actually were.
He'd only been on the force a few days when he figured out that this was true for every cop he knew.
The Other Ten Thousand Things
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