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Lacking Hindsight by gymnopedies (PG13)
Fandom: BOONDOCK SAINTS
Pairing: Ma/Pa MacManus (Ma/Il Duce)
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gymnopedies
Author Website: None found, other than her LJ.
Why this must be read: Because as fascinating as the boys are (and they really are!), I've always wondered what sort of woman raised them even more. They obviously have a close relationship with their mother (based on the outtakes of the film). What sort of woman was she? And what did she think of them? And what happened between her and Il Duce?
It was also from him that she learned how to shoot.
He taught her with his own handgun, and she could feel from the smooth handle and the warmth that seemed to radiate from it just how much care and, she supposed, love went into the caring of the gun. Something about it being alive, jumping in her hands every time she put her fingers on the trigger, eager to work and to be useful and resentful against her. She loved the way he hid it in the folds of his coat, and the way he could make it appear in the palm of his hand again, black but invisible even in daylight. He had tried to teach her how to carry a gun around, but she wasn't the same as he was. She was a woman, after all, and there is something about a woman that moves differently from men. I can't teach you the same way I was taught, he had said, grinning, and it was that smile, really, that made her love him the most.
I could have married his smile, she told her friends. Later she told her sons the same thing, especially Murphy, because Murphy really does look like him, and Murphy has his smile.
Lacking Hindsight
Pairing: Ma/Pa MacManus (Ma/Il Duce)
Author on LJ:
gymnopediesAuthor Website: None found, other than her LJ.
Why this must be read: Because as fascinating as the boys are (and they really are!), I've always wondered what sort of woman raised them even more. They obviously have a close relationship with their mother (based on the outtakes of the film). What sort of woman was she? And what did she think of them? And what happened between her and Il Duce?
It was also from him that she learned how to shoot.
He taught her with his own handgun, and she could feel from the smooth handle and the warmth that seemed to radiate from it just how much care and, she supposed, love went into the caring of the gun. Something about it being alive, jumping in her hands every time she put her fingers on the trigger, eager to work and to be useful and resentful against her. She loved the way he hid it in the folds of his coat, and the way he could make it appear in the palm of his hand again, black but invisible even in daylight. He had tried to teach her how to carry a gun around, but she wasn't the same as he was. She was a woman, after all, and there is something about a woman that moves differently from men. I can't teach you the same way I was taught, he had said, grinning, and it was that smile, really, that made her love him the most.
I could have married his smile, she told her friends. Later she told her sons the same thing, especially Murphy, because Murphy really does look like him, and Murphy has his smile.
Lacking Hindsight