#dani reese

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Sarah Shahi

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Life: Season 1, Episode 5 The Fallen Woman

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Anyone ever love you that much?

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6, 12 and 27 for the yet another fic writers meme

For the fanfic ask game:

6. Vaguely spoil one of your fics without telling us which one it is

I think most of my stories are straightforward. The April/Jen Parks and Rec AU would end up with April and Jen becoming a Power Couple.

Jen reluctantly becomes part of the Pawnee Crew, but that's because she loves her wife, April.

12. What fandom do you want to write for more often?

Honestly? Star Trek. I want to write more of an episodic, season-spanning Star Trek Legacy story.

27. Which fic do you think is your most adventurous?

I think it has to be the Dani Reese-centric story where I tell Dani's backstory non-linearly in Human Landscape.

And, a Person of Interest story where Shaw can see ghosts. Conversations with Dead People

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The hug in the pilot, Charlie is doing these wide and exaggerated movements, so Dani knows it is coming, beyond the double warning he gave by saying first to the boy -Tyler?- and then to Dani herself, 'She/You think(s) I'm gonna hug her/you.'. She knows and despite the warnings to him to step back, she lets him wrap his arms around her and bring them close. She only pushes him back when he rests his head on her shoulder, and tries to hug her tighter.

Also, watch as everyone in the room stares like they were watching the Second Coming of Christ.

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I don't know if anyone realised, or appreciated, how passive-aggressively petty Charlie Crews was about, over and with his ex-wife. I am sure neither did he and his whole pursuing her after he had gotten out was to cause her, not pain per se, nor discomfort exactly, but since I don't have the right word to describe it, so we'll go with that. Or that while he allowed some platonic intimacy with Connie, he never made any pass on her, despite her attraction to him, despite the long list of girls that passed through his house during mainly the first season. (Side Note; During 'Merit Badge', while visiting the prison, Charlie is showing his badge for the majority of the time there, an unconscious reaction to being back in prison - a remind of him being out and a cop again.)

And then there's Dani Reese, who is so frustrated with being partnered with Crews, not for him being an 'ex-con' as most of the others see him as, but because she doesn't get why he'd get all this money and go back to work with those who betrayed him, who despite what was done to him, seemed eternally optimistic, probably recognising it as a façade, whose incessant mumbling and babbling about Zen and fruit caused her mild headaches, his constant bumbling at work caused her grief, but she was so fiercely loyal to him from the moment she got him as her junior partner that she dishes Stark the moment she meets him, going so far as to make his partner question whether he'd back him up or leave him out to dry alone in a crisis. Dani who is territorial over him, calling him 'Charlie' to his lawyer, and 'my partner' when -I think it was Easley, don't quote me that, it's been a while since I watched the series- threw things at him and trusting him to have her back from the get-go. She believes he is innocent, there was never a question about it from her, and all she asked of him was to remember he is a cop and her partner. All she asked of him was to let her know if she can trust him. A redundant question, that was aimed at and for him and his benefit, because no matter what, he is her partner and she does trust him to watch her back.

And she has already picked up some of his mannerisms and expressions and use them to avoid a conversation she wants out of, or translate his thoughts to explain him to others. And it annoys her to no end, that fact.

And if we take how much she disliked Bobby, we can count Jennifer, the ex, lucky for not crossing paths with Dani, ever, because the dressing down with have left Jen a sobbing mess, or that she didn't know Connie backed away when Charlie tried to pursue those who wronged him after getting Hollis for the murders of Rachel's family, because the dressing down would have been equally brutal - she was already mistrustful of her from their one meeting.

And I don't think Charlie expected her to stick by him, because when Davis asks Dani if she wants to request a new partner, right there in front of him, she says 'no'. By all accounts, he knows he is a pain in her butt, he knows she doesn't really like him -she told him so herself- and yet she sticks by him. Which is, I think, the point, the moment it clicks and Crews realises his role as her partner and fully embraces it. That no matter what, Reese and Crews are partners.

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angelic37:

Zen recording: [voiceover] What we learned as children, that one plus one equals two, we know to be false. One plus one equals one. We even have a word for when you, plus another, equals one. That word is love.

- Life - 2x21 “One”

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Reese: I don’t like being sat on. Crews: She doesn’t.

(2x05, Crushed)

The certainty with which Crews agrees to this, did he fell on Reese during a chase in between the seasons himself? And Reese just actually came close to physically strangling him? Instilled the fear of God in Crews so he never ever sits on her ever again? The missed opportunity of seeing Dani Reese with her hands wrapped around Charlie Crews' neck, shaking him, one step away from committing partnercide with all the fury trapped in all her 5' something and Charlie calmly smiling up at her, apologising, pains me.

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(via squeegybeckinheim-blog-blog)

Dani Reese: Why would the universe make fun of us all? Charlie Crews: Maybe it’s insecure.