Fast & Furious- Brian
Jun. 12th, 2009 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberdarkThis is a 'character study', a meditation piece to get inside the character's head. Not a story, per se, something I do to explore the thinking patterns and voice narrative. This is Brian O'Conner from F&F just before the newest movie.
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Everybody’s got something to live for. Yeah, I know what it sounds like, but it’s true anyway. I make my living on it, if it comes down to that, finding out what makes a person get out of bed in the morning and playing on that to get what I want. What the FBI wants, which is usually the same thing but not always.
I guess that’s what gets me out of bed in the morning. I’m damn good at what I do. I’m the best the Bureau’s got, and they know it. Penning knows it. That takes me so far, just far enough to put away the bad guys. See, I use the system just like it uses me and that relationship suits me just fine. Sure, I’ve been in the doghouse a couple times and there’ve been some domestic disputes here and there, what couple doesn’t have those? But overall we got a good thing going on.
Yeah, there’ve been a few late night regrets, I’m not saying it’s all sunshine and roses. A couple cases kept me up scared and there was one or two that made me wonder about deeper shit than I should have been. Goes like that sometimes. Work hazard, I guess, except OSHA doesn’t make a poster for that one.
Life’s a game and the job’s a game; you gotta play it, and you’ve gotta play it right, every single time, to get what you want. Politics and arrogance. It’s not so much what you can do as what you can get away with. You can get away with a hell of a lot if you bring in the right results.
It’s all about paying attention. About watching, and listening. To everyone, doesn’t make a difference if it’s the scum on the streetcorner or the head of the Bureau, you gotta know what moves a man, know what’s in his secret heart. Give him what he wants and he’ll give you what you need and that, my friend, means you’ve won.
Everybody’s got to have something that gets them up in the morning, even me.
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Everybody’s got something to live for. Yeah, I know what it sounds like, but it’s true anyway. I make my living on it, if it comes down to that, finding out what makes a person get out of bed in the morning and playing on that to get what I want. What the FBI wants, which is usually the same thing but not always.
I guess that’s what gets me out of bed in the morning. I’m damn good at what I do. I’m the best the Bureau’s got, and they know it. Penning knows it. That takes me so far, just far enough to put away the bad guys. See, I use the system just like it uses me and that relationship suits me just fine. Sure, I’ve been in the doghouse a couple times and there’ve been some domestic disputes here and there, what couple doesn’t have those? But overall we got a good thing going on.
Yeah, there’ve been a few late night regrets, I’m not saying it’s all sunshine and roses. A couple cases kept me up scared and there was one or two that made me wonder about deeper shit than I should have been. Goes like that sometimes. Work hazard, I guess, except OSHA doesn’t make a poster for that one.
Life’s a game and the job’s a game; you gotta play it, and you’ve gotta play it right, every single time, to get what you want. Politics and arrogance. It’s not so much what you can do as what you can get away with. You can get away with a hell of a lot if you bring in the right results.
It’s all about paying attention. About watching, and listening. To everyone, doesn’t make a difference if it’s the scum on the streetcorner or the head of the Bureau, you gotta know what moves a man, know what’s in his secret heart. Give him what he wants and he’ll give you what you need and that, my friend, means you’ve won.
Everybody’s got to have something that gets them up in the morning, even me.
