quotethis_muses: August Prompt

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. >> Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

[Bendy time, occurred Monday morning, 18 August 2008]

James’ wake up call that morning had been a voicemail from Pierce in very much Pierce’s usual style. ‘Campbell, if you’re serious about getting your arse back to work this morning and in the deputy seat, I want you here, pronto. Boot any T and A out of your bed you were indulging in. I want you here at seven sharp. We have a case.’

( He didn’t need anymore convincing that he should be back at work. He’d only been out of hospital for a week, and despite the doctors warning him off anymore added stress, he needed to get back to work before it killed him. He needed to get back to normal and he needed it ASAP... )

- isabelowens & agentsullivan referenced with permission


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muses_w_remotes: McLintock Quote

17. “I know I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't”
| McLintock

Co-written with isabelowens

The whole team sat at the conference table in the Crimes Against Children department at the New York Headquarters of the FBI. It had just passed ten pm and there wasn’t a single face in the room that didn’t harbour stress, sadness, defeat, and downright anger.

The case had failed.

One small miscalculation of evidence had the whole profiled case blow up before their eyes. The profilers had been working on it for close to three weeks before the brief was handed over to Pierce to set the team into action. It had been James’ first case calling the shots as Deputy. He’d planned the initial tactics; the who, what and where of all the very mechanics that went into launching a case. He delegated, he analysed, and he was so sure he had every minute detail pristine to launch into surveillance and targeting of the perpetrators. Everyone had been so confident in his seemingly watertight action plan.

( It was about as watertight as the Titanic... )

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