AN: Set pre-canon, canon-compliant with Season 1 and Season 2 (so far). No need to know anything about the Every End is a Beginning AU.
Sorry that this is so late; I was really busy with some personal stuff yesterday, so didn't have time to post!
Thoughts on 2.11, Bullet + Pen, at the end of this chapter, with spoilers.
SUPERMAX PRISON
LA
Riley trooped into the prison cafeteria, uncaring and almost zombie-like, as she so often was.
Sure, she thought, as she picked up her tray, it was Christmas.
Big deal.
Not.
Christmas had never been a big deal to her and her mom.
The handful (precious handful, even if she wasn't going to admit it out-loud to anyone) of years when Jack had been around…Christmas had meant something then, at least.
But now, Jack was gone (Jack had left, Jack had abandoned them), and Riley was stuck in supermax.
At least her mom was safe, she told herself.
She'd done this all for her mom, and she'd do it all again in a heartbeat.
(Her mom was the only person she had, after all. The only person whom Riley loved. The only person who had always, always, always been there for her.)
Her mom was safe.
That was all that mattered.
Christmas? Who cared?
Riley sat down at her usual spot, and robotically brought the spork to her mouth.
At least the food was a little better today.
AN: Why does everyone have to have a tragic backstory, I ask, as I write more and more depressing stuff about them…
Tomorrow's ficlet: 'You know, Patricia's the best spy in the business, and Jack's an extremely competent covert operative, despite appearances, so…the probability of us succeeding is less than 10%.'
Who is up to mischief? What kind of mischief are they up to? Any guesses?
Thoughts on 2.11, Bullet + Pen: Probably the best episode of the season, methinks! Lots of great moments and feels – that war room scene at the start was amazing, Mac and Bozer with Mac being a good bro was too, and Mac's inability to rule out the existence of Santa! I also really liked the little Jack and Riley scene near the closing, the Bozer/pastrami stuff and Mac and Matty's little moment (Yay for letting Mac have his right to ruin paperclips!). Of course, the whole premise (only Mac would get arrested for murder and domestic terrorism and take down a drug and arms dealing cartel…) was also awesome. Murdoc targeting Cage – why? He clearly knows something about her...obviously Cage's secret gets revealed next ep, as does whatever's going on with Mac's dad (does anyone else think that the gift from Mac's dad is a bomb or somehow tied to Murdoc?), which means that episode 12 of this season is probably going to be as crazy as Screwdriver was…hopefully the plot doesn't do something as nonsensical as Screwdriver…
There will be no episode tag from me this week; there's nowhere to go in my opinion right now, because of the way it ended. However, there'll probably be something new from me during the wait until January 5th; I've got an idea or two from this ep – stay tuned to Somewhere in the Middle.