Don Vigilante Plot Bunny for Adoption
current mood: bouncy
current song: Dive Right In - Story of the Year
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.






but I think you will enjoy it. I found a real dark Don fic. We discussed it before, and so I send you the link:
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http://tenshi-nanashi.livejournal.com/1