Sir Under The Bed While They Talk Is A Crazy Shot. This Poor Girl Like Bitch You Don't Get It He Had

Gabi x Sir Bodyguard Au part 3

Back again. I'm having a lot of fun with this so walk with me. Gabi is steadily falling for Evans but still is very much aware that the trafficking ring want her dead. Evans has grown on her and she is happy to renew his contract. I want all the soft moments for these two (right after I make Hugh Evans suffer).

Content warnings: physical injury

Gabi rushes to him without hesistation. His forehead is dripping with sweat and his breathing seems laboured.

"What do you need me to do? The police will be here soon. Once they arrest him, we can get you to a hospital." She explains.

"Gabrielle, please no hospitals. I'm fine to give a statement to the police, I just need something to clean the wound. Once the police are done here, I can seal it." Evans responsds.

Another conundrum. This is a medical emergency. What kind of grown man with blood pouring out of him refuses professional care?

Of course, she tries to reason with him. Evans looks pained as he tries to convince her otherwise. Turns out, boarding school in Virginia takes up a lot of his salary, leaving nowhere near enough for health insurance.

An ambulance at this time would bankrupt him, so, like he always does, he will patch himself up and find someway to ease the pain.

Gabi's heart breaks. This man is putting his brother through school without any help. Understanding his situation, she goes to find hot water, clean cloths, antiseptic cream, and bandages. When she returns, she finds Evans trying to sit up.

(source)

"Please, let me" she whispers; gently easing him towards her. He almost freezes at her touch. A kind woman helping him shouldn't have such a strong effect of him, but it does. Gabi is more caring than he could've imagined. She didn't impose anything on him, understanding that her circumstances are very different to his. She gave him water while she wiped the blood from his skin and stayed with him as he told the police what happened. The police agreed that knocking the attacker unconscious was self defense and had no further questions for Evans.

After the cops left her place, dragging the attacker in handcuffs, he turned to Gabrielle.

"You can't stay here anymore. Your location is compromised and that guy has definitely already told his bosses that you have a bodyguard. We need to go." He said, still holding his side.

As frustrating as all this was, he had a point. Thankfully, M&A had a safehouse in Virginia where they could spend the next few weeks.

Gabi and Evans packed their stuff and updated the rest of the team with a brief message:

Evans was stabbed. We are going into hiding. I'll see you guys in a few weeks. Keep taking on cases. GM.

And with that, they began the long drive to the Charlie safehouse, by Smith Mountain Lake.

I feel like the person working with Sir has to be Ethan because so much would make a lot more sense if it is.

ofmd wasn't "profitable" enough but I didn't even get the feeling hbo wanted to make money off of it. They didn't promote it when s1 dropped, and the promo for s2 was erratic at best. They don't sell merch. Or physical copies. There's no bts documentaries other than what actors (shoutout to Samba ilu) make themselves in their spare time.

It took more than a full year for me to be able to watch s1 legally! I still can't access s2 legally anywhere! It's not that ofmd is unprofitable, it's that hbo refuses to profit off of it, because - well, because profiting off of it would mean investing work and money into it.

And like. Of course, when you compare it to the juggernauts hbo holds rights to, like GoT, ofmd is small fishes. But.

How on earth do these clowns think cult classics happen?

A Game of Thrones was first published in 1996 and didn't make it on the NYT beststeller list until 2011. The first edition of the first Harry Potter book was 500 pieces. And yeah, TV shows are different, but if you look at today's media landscape, would things like Star Trek, or Buffy, or Doctor Who stand the slightest chance? These things take time, is my point. A piece of media doesn't become a massively profitable, beloved classic over night. It takes time and effort to build that kind of franchise.

And the thing is! Nobody who makes these decisions even likes stories. I'm convinced that whoever is in charge at hbo, at amazon prime, even at disney, thinks storytelling is dumb and for idiots. They think it's enough to just slap the name of something people love on whatever garbage they spit out, for it to be profitable. They think it's the brand that sells: Look this has "Lord of the Rings" on it! Look, this one has "Game of Thrones", you like Game of Thrones don't you? Watch my show, boy.

But this isn't how this works. It's not the name that sells (unless, I suppose, you're the MCU, and even there one gets the impression the trick is finally stopping to work), especially not when the product is bad. People aren't idiots.

But it's not about making something good. It's not about making a meaningful piece of art, or telling an engaging story. ofmd served its purpose; it drew in all the subscribers it ever would, so there's no point in letting it go on. Even in the s2 that we did get, this is evident: the penny pinching is palpable, it's clear that the studio didn't want to spend any more money than absolutely necessary on it, and then cut the budget by 40%.

It's not about art. It never has been.

And it's not even about profit, because to be profitable eventually, stories have to be allowed to thrive first. You tell a good story first, and success happens later, often much, much later.

And ofmd was incredibly, astonishingly successful. It was the most in-demand series for weeks after the s1 finale. But even that wasn't enough, it's never enough, ofmd could have made record-setting profits and it still would have been cancelled, because -

Well, I don't know. Because we live in a bad time for art. Because Orwell was right, and stories have become commodities, like shoelaces. Because. Well. It's not about telling a story, is it?

What's the point of a story? What's the point of making something for the joy of making it? What's the point of a piece of art, existing, if it cannot be transferred into numbers for the stockholders?

idk how to end this. I hope David Jenkins finishes the story he wanted to tell, even if just for himself. I hope, against all odds, that weird, fun, heartfelt, beautiful little stories like ofmd continue to happen.

But goddammit.

Two seconds into meeting his brother and I feel like he killed his mother and Hugh coverd it up. He instantly made my skin crawl.

I love his switch up so much. Especially Trents confusion.

My man 😮‍💨.

Okay, I know Hassan, Lizzie, and Robyn's favorite DW episode was "Blink" primarily because they are caricatures of real fans, but I think they also loved it because the main character of that adventure was like them.

In "Blink", the hero is a character who only exists in that one episode, survives the monster of the week, and gets a surname! Sally Sparrow is everything they wished they could be as one-off Doctor Who characters.

Catsy Jones

Is it bad I want Gabbi to go with Hugh for a little bit to see how it plays out?