[tGE] Inured, Returns (implied Roger/Mac)

[valmora]

Title: Inured, Returns (one title)
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: The Great Escape, the movie. Oh, lookie, canon!
Pairing: implied Roger/Mac
Disclaimer: Not mine. All to MGM/UA and Paul Brickhill. I only borrow.
Notes: Title is a little abstract. I'm trying to get away from one-word titles.



He lets Ashley-Pitt greet Roger because he does not trust himself. Best this way, anyway - Ashley-Pitt, warm and so very young in spirit, will be a welcome presence compared to the Gestapo's painful hospitality.

Instead, Mac tells the others. Danny and Willie first, and it gives him a satisfaction to see the look of hope that spreads across both their faces before it is quickly suppressed. Cavendish, then, and Sedgwick with him, the both of them looking grim. Can't tell Piglet, who's got himself locked up with that crazy American.

Returns to the command hut and finds Roger and Captain Ramsey talking about tea.

Tea. God. So normal - too normal - casual as though he hasn't been gone for three months, as though Mac hasn't been wondering for three months, in the space between his thoughts, if Roger is even still alive.

And Mac is content as they start making plans they are unable to write down, as he watches Roger come back to life. It is as though when he walked through that barbed-wire doorway, Roger was no more than a shell, and here, here, is why Mac wants to escape - because even if Roger dies at the Gestapo's hands in the end, at least he will have truly lived until then.

Comments

[figletofvenice.livejournal.com]

One thing I really like about this is the references to all the other characters. Because the way Mac decribes them, and me remembering them make me squee a little on the inside.

I also really like the bit about tea. What else are the British to talk about?

And so angsty, as always. Ahaha.

[valmora.livejournal.com]

is the references to all the other characters
Oh, good. I was worried that it would seem distracting. =)

make me squee a little on the inside.
::dances:: I made you squee!

What else are the British to talk about?
But Ramsey DOES! Right after Roger gets back, Ramsey starts talking about the lamentable quality of the tea! It's like Instant Briton!

so angsty, as always
I think I'm psychologically incapable of writing happy fics. Seriously.

[figletofvenice.livejournal.com]

I know the tea does indeed exist. In the movie, I mean. It just amuses me every time I watch the movie, and I'm glad you put it in there.

Well, I'll still read 'em, even if they are angsty. I happen to like them that way. (And angst is so much fun to write. Also? Easier, if you're me.)

[valmora.livejournal.com]

It just amuses me every time
Ditto.

I happen to like them that way
Aww. I am comforted. ::feels loved::

Also? Easier
Yes. =)

[lakester.livejournal.com]

Aw Mac, so responsible and buttoned up. And yep, Hilts sure is 'that crazy American.' And showing Roger's almost iconic/talismanic property to the men. And those three months - wonder what happened during them.

as though Mac hasn't been wondering for three months, in the space between his thoughts

And again with the bittersweet.

[valmora.livejournal.com]

so responsible and buttoned up
Well, if he didn't, then we all know Ashley-Pitt would've been much less subtle about it. After all, Mac had to tell him not to get excited. =)

Hilts sure is 'that crazy American.'
Him and his motorcycles. =) Love the icon, by the way.

Roger's almost iconic/talismanic property to the men
YES. Because in the beginning, we start to wonder who Roger is, what kind of more-than-man he must be, when really, he's just a man like any other and is just as kill-able as any other (obviously).

And again with the bittersweet.
Angst = my bad habit.