Finished now.
So, I'm thinking I'm not going to join the FBI, lest I end up carving myself to bits, turning sex criminal, or becoming a Professional Victim.
Good one!
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Lilty Cash - Jun 15, 2005 6:01:22 pm PDT #9130 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Pix - Jun 15, 2005 6:05:57 pm PDT #9131 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Damn you, Tim.
My house is really dark.
askye - Jun 15, 2005 6:06:02 pm PDT #9132 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I think Brandt just wanted to make Rebecca squirm, he was doing a good job of unnerving both her and Paul in the interview room. Plus, he was innocent, so it would just be a little head game. Put her in chains, watch her squirm, then let her go. Figuring that there's no way she'd run to her boss and say she let the nice murder suspect get her in chains. There's no way he could have known she'd have such an intense reaction.
Jessica - Jun 15, 2005 6:07:18 pm PDT #9133 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and Paul should have, at least, gotten that.
Nah. He was in such foreign territory here, he wasn't getting anything.
I loved the dynamic of Rebecca's understanding of the S&M scene. To the point where I've written and deleted three paragraphs trying to explain it, but I can't. It was just...good.
This may actually be the first time I've ever found any fictional story abut S&M interesting. Normally, bondage stories either bore or annoy me. (Which comes from knowing too many people in the scene who won't shut up about it. Other people's kinky sex is boring.)
Pix - Jun 15, 2005 6:07:32 pm PDT #9134 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Also, I live in the woods.
Note to self: watch Tivo'd Inside eps during the daylight.
Did I mention my house is really dark?
Jessica - Jun 15, 2005 6:09:42 pm PDT #9135 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think he assumed she had experience as a submissive, and thought he was baiting her into admitting it. He was playfully testing her.
Emily - Jun 15, 2005 6:11:44 pm PDT #9136 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Other people's kinky sex is boring.
"Really, I'm glad you have weird sex. That's great. But I don't care."
My problem tends to be that it's played so blatantly to titillate (not this time, I'm saying usually) and wavers between glamorizing and moralizing, so the people involved are all gorgeous and wearing fantastic clothing and in opulent surroundings -- and they're also pretentious and/or violent. Okay, Brandt was a bit pretentious. But other than that, well avoided!
I'm off to dance now. Have fun.
SailAweigh - Jun 15, 2005 6:14:14 pm PDT #9137 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
He was playfully testing her.
And I think, up until the handcuffs, Rebecca was enjoying it. She sure didn't back off when it became obvious he was going to kiss her. I don't know how much of that was supposed to be "FBI testing the suspect" and how much was just "female curiousity."
Amy - Jun 15, 2005 6:15:03 pm PDT #9138 of 10001
Because books.
Plus, he was innocent, so it would just be a little head game.
Even general guy on the street would know an FBI agent doesn't usually show up just to chat, and she wanted to see the room. My take was, he thought she was curious -- maybe not in terms of doing anything that moment, but someday -- and since the conversation turned that way, he wanted to illustrate the whole control issue.
I think he was genuinely freaked when she started screaming.
I think he assumed she had experience as a submissive, and thought he was baiting her into admitting it. He was playfully testing her.
Or this.
Ginger - Jun 15, 2005 6:17:42 pm PDT #9139 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Paul seems to be as driven by his past as anyone else. My impression was that he was rejected by the late DA some years ago and he has since married, yet that rejection still really bothered him. I wonder if more than one woman has rejected him for someone who's not such a nice guy. (I'm presuming he's married from the baby thing. I guess it ain't necessarily so. Do we know?)