I couldn’t even finish that bullet list Feel like…
I know the feeling! I got to number 14 or so and had to stop and be ready to punch fictional characters because oh gods no not the hair nooooooooooooo (and yet at the same time very much yes)
Thank you! I fricking love Hennessey and somehow I think that if Alfred were going to do this he wouldn’t warn Hennessey because at that point he’d either a. present it as doing Hennessey a favor by keeping things quiet and not making public accusations or b. be maneuvering Hennessey into doing something at the same time (because Alfred is a spider, the worst kind, the kind that likes the Xanatos gambit) and he’d present it as do what I want or I ruin you and kill the spare. I wish that I did not know him as well as I do but like every other character I write I have Headcanon and what I have for him makes me hate him even worse.
oh yes, he’d definitely present it as him doing Hennessey a favour (the shit). I meant like, sending him a message either as the deed is being carried out, or just after – pretending it’s something he thinks Hennessey will be grateful for, when really they both know it’s not. I’m also wondering if Hennessey and/or Miranda would try and visit one or both of them in prison. I mean, they definitely allowed visitors
I could see Hennessey coming and paying the Keeper/Warden to keep it quiet and yes, being really angry at Thomas up until that point because he blames him and Miranda for getting James into this but then realizing that this isn’t just some noble larking about and not giving a crap but that Thomas actually does care about James. Miranda would likely be occupied with trying to build herself a position from which she could help Hennessey get them out – in canon Alfred had disowned her along with Thomas, meaning that she’d either have to fight him legally and risk James’ and Thomas’ relationship being publicly disclosed or have to come up with something else clever.
Especially if Hennessey hadn’t met Thomas before, because just remembering the way Thomas looks at James after the kiss I just… can’t imagine anyone thinking that James isn’t important to him.
i mean his face. he probably thinks he’s being subtle, bless him
YAAASS this, 10000% this! I don’t think Hennessey had ever met Thomas or Miranda and he could see the danger they presented but he’d never seen them look at James or James look at them because no they were not subtle, not one bit! And yes, I too live for outside perspectives on the OT3, especially Hennessey’s, and I had somehow not thought about the paradigm shift it would be for Hennessey to realize that yes, someone other than himself now cares about James as much as he does. That would take some getting used to by itself, I think! And I 100% want the moment that Hennessey realizes that he now has a son and a son-in-law and daughter-in-law as well when he never expected to have one kid let alone three! That, and I love the juxtaposition of Alfred who is Thomas’ actual father and never, I think, gave one single shit about him as anything other than an heir and Hennessey, who is not James’ actual father but does his damndest to keep him alive the way any (decent) father would even if he has to break both their hearts in the process.
now im wondering how Miranda and Hennessey start working together to rescue James and Thomas
I’m thinking Miranda would approach Hennessey because he’d be furious at her and Thomas but she’d be looking for people to help her and would naturally go to James’ father-figure as someone she’d have common cause with, especially because in this AU they’re taken from home instead of Hennessey’s office. And omg yes, I am so here for Hennessey telling stories about bitty James one night when he and Miranda are both tired from arguing with people and threatening other people and talking strategy and sharing a bottle of wine to try and knock the edge off their stress and grief and Miranda telling stories about when she and Thomas were growing up because I could see them having known each other since they were teenagers.
yes, she’d turn up and for the first few minutes he would be thinking ‘ah look, she’s unaffected, just acting like normal she clearly doesn’t care about mY SON’ but then he realises she’s. the exact opposite of that. (she was enraged when Alfred took one of her loves. Now he’s taken both. stupid man)
Ha – yes! Alfred should never, ever have taken both of Miranda’s men. One is enough to get him killed, but both… I shudder to think what she would do to him for that, and he’d no doubt have the nerve to look surprised because he’s such a horrifying misogynist as to count her harmless to him. Also the look of terror/dawning understanding on James’ face when he realizes that Miranda and Hennessey have been exchanging stories would be priceless!
hmm, this also makes me wonder if James and/or Thomas are expecting a rescue though
Hmm. I think one of the main motivators for Thomas telling Miranda to make sure she and James took care of one another was to keep them from coming for him, primarily because he knew James in particular would get himself killed if he tried it. If James is in there with him, though – I can’t picture Thomas sacrificing himself and James both, somehow. There’s acceptable loss and then there’s the man he loves getting hurt and I don’t think he’d count that as acceptable loss (unlike himself and wow doesn’t that say a lot about the character – he and James are so alike it’s frightening even though I think they got there through different paths. Thomas likely took Alfred’s awfulness to heart when he was young and James probably grew up knowing he wasn’t exactly important in the world as the grandson of a fisherman and the son of a carpenter’s mate). I don’t know if they’d be expecting a rescue but Thomas might be hoping for one and James might hold out some hope for Hennessey getting him out of there at least.
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