[tGE] Inured, Returns (implied Roger/Mac)
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valmoraTitle: 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-11-11 11:08 pm (UTC)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.