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charloft2015-01-09 03:12 pm
secondshift) wrote in charloft2015-01-09 03:12 pm
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Make a list of times you've given in, then tell us about one time you stood your ground.
1. In the hospital, the night their son was born. Chris is holding him, watching him sleep, and Karen's halfway there. Which is why it only then dawns on her. "Did I just let you name our son after The Princess Bride?" she asks, and her husband glances at her and laughs, as if he too has just figured out where he got the name from. "I guess you did," he says.
2. In a hotel room in downtown Los Angeles, two weeks after Chris's murder. She's in the corner, fighting back tears. Robbie grabs her by the shoulders and makes her look him in the eyes. "Karen," he says gently, "you can't do this anymore." She's nodding, knowing against every fiber of her being that he's right, and when they get back to the precinct she lets them take her badge.
3. In the backyard of her in-laws' house, eight months later. Karen is having a drink with her mother-in-law, her son upstairs with his grandfather. Melissa Donahue looks at Karen, sees the bruises, and she knows. "You need to see someone, Karen," she tells her. "Whatever it is you're doing, however much pain you want to be in, it can't be more than how much you love that little boy."
4. In the Chief of Detectives' office. Sitting straight-backed in the chair, watching him and her union rep review her physical results and mental evaluation. "We're glad to have you back," they tell her, "but it might be best if you start somewhere outside of Homicide. Someplace you can ease your way into things again." She's reassigned to the Robbery Division.
5. Karen is not in the habit of flirting with men on the same day that she meets them. At least not anymore. But Jack is different, the way he's looking at her like he's as intrigued by her as she is by him. How their playful banter back and forth makes her feel like she doesn't have a care in the world. Kissing him is far too forward, but she does it anyway and hasn't ever regretted it.
1. The words come out of the defense attorney's mouth before he can stop them, and he knows he's said something wrong when she fixes him with a look that could cut glass. "I've been a police officer for almost as long as you've been alive," she tells him without batting an eyelash, "and I graduated from law school the same as you did. They gave me one free swing at the man who murdered my husband and I punctured his lung. If you're going to threaten my detectives, you're going to have to go through me."
Karen Donahue | OC
1. In the hospital, the night their son was born. Chris is holding him, watching him sleep, and Karen's halfway there. Which is why it only then dawns on her. "Did I just let you name our son after The Princess Bride?" she asks, and her husband glances at her and laughs, as if he too has just figured out where he got the name from. "I guess you did," he says.
2. In a hotel room in downtown Los Angeles, two weeks after Chris's murder. She's in the corner, fighting back tears. Robbie grabs her by the shoulders and makes her look him in the eyes. "Karen," he says gently, "you can't do this anymore." She's nodding, knowing against every fiber of her being that he's right, and when they get back to the precinct she lets them take her badge.
3. In the backyard of her in-laws' house, eight months later. Karen is having a drink with her mother-in-law, her son upstairs with his grandfather. Melissa Donahue looks at Karen, sees the bruises, and she knows. "You need to see someone, Karen," she tells her. "Whatever it is you're doing, however much pain you want to be in, it can't be more than how much you love that little boy."
4. In the Chief of Detectives' office. Sitting straight-backed in the chair, watching him and her union rep review her physical results and mental evaluation. "We're glad to have you back," they tell her, "but it might be best if you start somewhere outside of Homicide. Someplace you can ease your way into things again." She's reassigned to the Robbery Division.
5. Karen is not in the habit of flirting with men on the same day that she meets them. At least not anymore. But Jack is different, the way he's looking at her like he's as intrigued by her as she is by him. How their playful banter back and forth makes her feel like she doesn't have a care in the world. Kissing him is far too forward, but she does it anyway and hasn't ever regretted it.
1. The words come out of the defense attorney's mouth before he can stop them, and he knows he's said something wrong when she fixes him with a look that could cut glass. "I've been a police officer for almost as long as you've been alive," she tells him without batting an eyelash, "and I graduated from law school the same as you did. They gave me one free swing at the man who murdered my husband and I punctured his lung. If you're going to threaten my detectives, you're going to have to go through me."
Karen Donahue | OC