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sweetandshortTitle: Playing a Role
Fandom: L.A. Confidential
Characters: Bud White/Lynn Bracken
Rating: Teen
Prompt: Space
Word Count: 191
Summary: In Bisbee, he feels as though he's playing a role and he's trying to keep it from taking over
“What is it, Bud?” Lynn asks, and he finds himself at a loss for words.
All this open space makes his surroundings seem more like a prison than a refuge. Bud feels better when he's in town rather than alone at the house. Everyone in Bisbee seems to know him as 'Lynn's man' and not a man they should be wary of. That's a change and a bit of an unpleasant one if you ask him. He seems to be losing more of himself every day he's here. He needs to feed off the energy of a larger city than this one, whether its Los Angeles or somewhere else.
He wonders if she can recognize it in him. That he's doing the same thing she once did, playing a role, and he can't allow it to take over.
Maybe, one day, she would find someone more suitable to play the part of 'Lynn's man', but now he realizes that it isn't him. The words come slowly, as if a gentle delivery will make this hurt less.
Two days later, he's heading back to Los Angeles, where he can be himself again.
Fandom: L.A. Confidential
Characters: Bud White/Lynn Bracken
Rating: Teen
Prompt: Space
Word Count: 191
Summary: In Bisbee, he feels as though he's playing a role and he's trying to keep it from taking over
“What is it, Bud?” Lynn asks, and he finds himself at a loss for words.
All this open space makes his surroundings seem more like a prison than a refuge. Bud feels better when he's in town rather than alone at the house. Everyone in Bisbee seems to know him as 'Lynn's man' and not a man they should be wary of. That's a change and a bit of an unpleasant one if you ask him. He seems to be losing more of himself every day he's here. He needs to feed off the energy of a larger city than this one, whether its Los Angeles or somewhere else.
He wonders if she can recognize it in him. That he's doing the same thing she once did, playing a role, and he can't allow it to take over.
Maybe, one day, she would find someone more suitable to play the part of 'Lynn's man', but now he realizes that it isn't him. The words come slowly, as if a gentle delivery will make this hurt less.
Two days later, he's heading back to Los Angeles, where he can be himself again.
