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Loooooove your stories 3

That's a shame Ajedrez and sands was never ment to be seen with each other and another thing they don't need to be together, and they most definitly don't make a good alinance.

I loved these ficlets, very well done as usual!

Awesome. Very very very awesome.

if only that was so. hi becky, sorry- haven't reviewed in a while but the first period bell is about to ring and i have to go NOW. talk later.

It's amazing and overwhelming how a chance meeting can change one's life. Sands is so... Sands: arrogant, manipulative, thinking he throws all shapes and that phrase at the end -
"She would never have seen him coming."
So evilly, bitterly ironic.
Are you going to continue this? I hope so.

Scary. And it could only get scarier for the boy.

I almost forgot that Bel wasn't in the movie. She fits in so well.

God, that was ironic.
Bitterly ironic - how a man can plan everything so carefully and be so sure of the result - and look what happens.
Ironic in a different way - if this is your trilogy-verse. "Dumb and good-looking". :)

"Screaming would be preferable, but he couldn't see - oh god couldn't see - how he could accomplish that, so there was only one other choice." - this little insert is like a stab of genuine paim through all the bravado.
The way Sands tells the kid to run - for purely selfish reasons, not out of any kindness - is so Sands, a manipulator to the end.

Oh, I remember that moment. I never saw it coming. This is the moment where Sands is at his best/worst. This is when you start to beleive that he is so brilliant that he can pull anything off through sheer insolence. You've captured it so well.

A brilliant look inside Sands' head - a manipulative bastard to the end, but so very, very brave and strong-willed.

/Only an amateur went to all the trouble of coming up with fake identities./
Love this, the layered game-playing, Sands falling for the more transparent deception and never seeing the bigger one.
/She would never have seen him coming./
Irony is always delicious.
(Oh, and I finally got my DVD after all. Got tired of waiting for delivery-got doubly tired of squinting at my coughdownloadedcough copy to make sure I was interpreting the imagery correctly-and just went out and bought the darn thing.)

Love this chapter-the boy remains one of my favorite characters. He was obviously headed /somewhere/ before Sands came along, and I really like your interpretation and the way you paint his innocence.
/Suddenly going home sounded like a very good thing to do./
I felt my stomach drop a little at this line, knowing that within an hour the boy's going to have a gun pressed to his head and witness a number of bloody shootings. Poor kid.