Perspective
Chapter 13: A One Shot in the Dark
Summary:
The crew was practicing shooting for the Rio heist.
Every detail would help their already shot in the dark odds.
Published on March 12, 2024
Author's Notes:
I think technically any character moment scenes can apply to any timeline/alternate universe unless it contradicts so this chapters fits that if that makes sense
IMPORTANT note on PUBLICATION DATES
-I will be publishing chapters with dates with 2 and 7
-So the 2nd, 7th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, 27th of a month
-but it will only be when I have chapters to publish so if I miss a date the next one in line will be used and so on
Update: my bad, I forget 20s that is not 22 and 27 exists LOL, but the second part of my note hopefully made up for it and I caught this on time before I hit the 20s dates but I will also issue this update on the next chapter update
-so it's every 5 days on average and there likely isn't going to be super super short chapters or 9-parters like when I was starting out and didn't know I what I was doing (and even then I had two chapters at a time posts)
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Chapter 13: A One Shot in the Dark
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"Nine…ten!" Everyone cheers when Gisele hits the last tin can, her fourth perfect round score.
The crew was practicing shooting for the Rio heist.
Every detail would help their already shot in the dark odds.
Brian and Gisele who had formal training were trying their best to teach or assess the others' skills.
"Speed and accuracy, nice," Mia pats Gisele's shoulder proudly.
"She's an expert this is not fair," Roman whines.
"Then we brought in the right person," Dom smirks.
"You weren't bad Roman," Gisele looks at the target practice sheet they also practiced.
"Those years of Duck Hunt, water guns, and Nerf darts paid off Rome," Brian chuckles ribbing.
"You pros with training shouldn't be talking," Roman now jokes with his old childhood friend.
"I'm going to hit the track again," Dom announces.
"I'll monitor," Mia says.
"That's my cue," Brian grins following Mia, "Shoot well boys."
Leo and Santos start arguing in Spanish with some English mixed in.
"You're too early."
"You hesitate."
"You need glasses."
"Lucky shot."
"Amateurs," Tej tsks, "Don't sweat and just find your thing and focus on that…and just don't shoot your own man."
"Let's hope so," Gisele agrees.
"Top 2 shootoff?" Roman asks.
"I think we could use a breather. Later or tomorrow then."
"Sure teach!" Tej is already headed back to main part of the warehouse, then Roman, Leo and Santos too.
Han who was picking up the cans and observing the others gets back to where Gisele is then.
"You just had a bad start," Gisele tells Han looking at his target sheet, "You have a good eye, and just squeaked pass Leo technically with the combined scores."
"Rules are rules," Han shrugs, "And I think the wind knocked down one of my cans."
The low scores were to clean up the cans.
"I could go for a redo or even more practice, rather," Han says.
"I'll line things up," Gisele nods.
"Is it safe to do the old cans?" Han wonders, "Make it a bit more of a challenge with less surface area."
"Let's see, then," Gisele takes the bag of cans from Han, "how the first round goes."
Han and Gisele shoot a few rounds each, including on the paper target sheet.
After Gisele frowns as she examines one of the guns, "This one isn't going to cut it."
"This job was pretty short notice I don't blame you and I'm sure the others don't either, you did the best you could," Han tries to reassure, "All I had to bring was myself and some clothes I had to blend in which I pretty much already had."
"You got us the replica vault, that's pretty important."
"And you got us the handprint."
Gisele smiles, "So if you and Roman are in disguise with the cop costume you can get away with carrying the shotgun, Leo and Santos will carry the handguns concealed if it comes to that."
"That seems sound."
"Ideally we won't even need it if all goes well," Gisele nods, "What's it been like in the past? Your other jobs with Dom?"
"There were a few where we had to improvise, a few dust-ups, a few failures, but I made it here."
"I'm glad you did," Gisele says, voice quieter now.
"I'm glad you did too," Han smiles too.
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Author's note for Perspective, Chapter 13: A One Shot In the Dark
My intention for this fic was to relate it back to the retcons since F9 but then I think I couldn't do it sometimes without shoehorning so this one is more subtle and related in that Han seemed to have gotten really good training in shooting as seen in/by F9.
And I wanted a more sincere and straightforward scene since I always seem to inject some type of subtle flirting/subtext (likely so I can maximize the scene, and maybe that comes from them not getting a lot of screentime in the films) so this is maybe even more subtle? *in my other fics if this one hasn't had many like that
And for variety I guess, I let them have a professional scene for the most part even if it is set after the part in the film after the handprint when we know they are into each other (even if it's just physical ?) and they are bonding only the end has obvious feelings revealed.
And I think the group scene is a bonus and turned out better than I thought, or after years of writing I now know I won't be writing long fics with a plot-and-resolution so I can have the scene here instead of "saving" it for when I "should" use it.