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Here we go again!!! This bunny hit me after reading some NCIS fics where Gibbs goes vigilante.

This got me thinking of Don and the stress of the job that has gotten to him... what if he became disillusioned with the system and became a vigilante??? Where he started taking justice into his own hands when a criminal was too smart to leave concrete evidence or got a lawyer that got him off???

I can see this either just starting up somewhere in season 3 when we see him getting disillusioned [*cough* Traffic *cough*] or being a more on going thing. That he has been doing this on some level since before he returned to L.A. [not persay going as far back as Fugitive Recovery though I could see Billy getting Don started with it or planting the seeds for what will later germinate into this].

If it there is a tie to Fugitive Recovery I could see Don comparing how easy it was back then as they didn't get bogged down with all of the legalities as the people they were after had already been convicted and just needed to be returned to jail. If so it would be after a tough/trying case where the legalities kept everything hung up and probably lead to more deaths/rapes/...

I also just have this image stuck in my mind of Charlie's face when he learns what Don has been doing. He wouldn't understand it [no one would!!!] and would be extremely disappointed in his big brother. Everyone would be but it hits Charlie the worst with his hero worship and all that he still has on some levels though I guess it would hit Megan, David and Colby badly too as they all look up to their boss and mentor as well. This is why Don never told them [perhaps he told Billy and hinted at it to Ian??? or Ian suspected after Spree??? [if it is an ongoing thing Don would have pretended to be affected in Spree. If its new then perhaps that factored into it as well as Traffic as ultimately he didn't feel as bad about it as it got Megan back and results!!!]] as he knew they wouldn't understand. Don's not ashamed of what he did even when confronted by his father.

Or does no one learn of it??? And we just see Don in action.

Yep, as I said, lots of ideas but no writing potential at all!!!

There aren't a lot of fics out there with this pairing, but I'd love to see more Don and Edgerton fics.

Background: Don and Ian don't know each other. Although I like fics where they've met before, I just didn't really get that impression in Sniper Zero. So for this fic, their meeting at the top of the hill with Charlie would be their first meeting. Don has clearly heard of Edgerton before and you may say Ian has heard of Eppes, but no actual meeting has ever taken place.
Both Don and Ian are clearly alpha-males and I can easily see both of them being different as seen by the choices they made within the FBI. Don did Fugitive Recovery for a while and was clearly good at it, while Ian's sniper work is clearly also in the hunter area not to mention the man hunting he does with his tracking. They were both hunters at one point, the main difference being Ian did it before the criminal had been caught while Don did it if they escaped after being sentenced.
To me there's a definite spark between the two of them, though I would think that Don might hold back more initially simply because he is in the more vulnerable position due to the fact that his position provides him with much less room to maneuver than Edgerton's does. His co-workers stay the same and are always around not to mention that his family lives close by and knows a lot of what's going on in his life [before, when this wasn't the case, he would have acted as he did with Coop back in the day]. Edgerton doesn't really have to worry about any of these things and his superb reputation probably allows him more room to maneuver, especially since his current job lets him be different as he isn't a 'normal' FBI agent to begin with.

Fic: When they meet in Sniper Zero both Don and Ian are intrigued by the other and interested. They are drawn to the primal, dangerous edge each of them possesses though Don's has been tuned down due to the position he now holds, but Ian can still clearly detect it underneath Don's current professionalism (he can feel it frothing beneath the surface just waiting to be unleashed). Don, however, doesn't act on it for the above reasons while Ian definitely thinks of it and makes some overtures but doesn't push as he doesn't know Eppes well enough to know how he'll react.
When they meet again in Toxin, I can imagine Ian pushing a little more and realizing that Don is interested in him too. He is much better at reading people than the average person. But with Charlie being there the whole time with them, there is no good opportunity to act and Edgerton knows Don well enough at this point to know that to do anything near Charlie would not be a good idea despite the fact that he may really want to. Don, meanwhile, is still very interested and realizes that Ian is on to him. The overtures feel odd as he is used to the one doing the persuing instead of being persued. The only other time where dominance was so closely fought over with him was with Coop and they'd already had a well established work relationship to fall back on and knew each other much better.
By the time Spree rolls around, Edgerton is determined to make his move and it may well have been factored into his decision to call Don's team out to the scene of the robbery at the beginning of the episode [not that it wasn't also necessary but it did factor into it]. The fact that this case also forces Don to start crossing lines only adds to the tension that their encounter will have as it lets out Don's darker side and gives him more need of tension relief.
Any meeting of these two would result in a struggle for dominance but I think ultimately both would benefit from giving it up from time to time, especially now that they have learned that they can trust the other. And they know that the other understands them in a way even other FBI agents like David and Megan can't as they've seen the grittier, more dangerous and primal side of their work, namely the man hunting. The first time might have Don submitting simply due to the circumstances hitting him so hard, but after that he'd definitely fight to make Ian submit.
I'd really like to see something lasting come out of it, but I could see it go the other way too. More of a 'when you're in town' type of relationship.

Please, please let this inspire at least one person??? Pretty please???
Let me know if it does. Thankie!!!

Okay, I'm a huge Don/Billy fan and read every single fic of this pairing that I can find. Now, I don't write, but reading all of these fics has given me an idea that I really would like to see done and I'm hoping that I can inspire one or more of the writers on this comm to turn it into a reality!!!!

Anyway, here's the deal:
The background: Don and Billy were together during their time in Fugitive Recovery but than something came up and thus Don took the position in New Mexico [perhaps Don felt it wouldn't work out in the long run/Don had the family pressure to be more 'available'/whatever...] but Billy had said that he would always be there if Don needed him. Which is why he showed up when David, a member of Don's team, requested a member of Fugitive Recovery in Man Hunt.

The actual story: spending time with Coop again makes Don revaluate his earlier choice and decides that he doesn't get it anymore/decides that it wasn't worth it/decides that it is no longer valid and he really asks Billy to stay with him [ie, not like he did at the end of Man Hunt] and Billy accepts.
Now we all saw how Alan really didn't like Coop during the episode and I want to see him as well as Charlie having to come to terms with the new situation. Especially because Don, in typical Don Eppes fashion, never told the two of them that he's bi, much less ever had a serious boyfriend. I guess he'd try to break that news to them first [over dinner? a night at home?] before telling them about Billy and how he's staying and moving in with Don, but that quickly comes out too.
As far as Alan is concerned, I would expect him to be against it pretty adamently at first until he starts to see just how good Coop actually is for Don. Perhaps he sees Don's more relaxed/smiles & laughs more... or he sees Don being able to finally break down as he trusts Billy so much [if so, I'd expect Alan to be somewhere where he's no expected and Don and Coop think they're alone or Don would never show such weakness]. Basically Alan doesn't 'accept' the relationship until he gets real proof of how good it really is for his eldest and then he's forced to realize that it really is what Don needs despite his wishes and dreams for him.
I guess Charlie would also have to come to terms with all this new information on his brother [I don't see him as being bi or gay too in this fic, for the simple reason that it is... uh... statistically unlikely that they've both been hidding the same secret not to mention the fact that it would increase the angst factor if Charlie has to struggle to come to terms with this unexpected side to his big brother and the fact that Don keeps so many secrets from his family when he (Charlie) doesn't do the same].

Hmm... can you tell that ideas spring quite quickly and elaborately in my mind? It's very easy for me to come up with them but I can't for the life of me write them!!!!!

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Thankie!!!