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banditthewriter · 5 years

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Dirty Work - Billy Russo - 3

I’m sorry I didn’t get this posted yesterday, but here we are! This will answer some of those questions... and definitely create some new ones, I’m sure!

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"I'm calling about the hit I took out on Billy Russo."

You heard a noise on the other line that sounded like a scoff.

"Yeah, figured you'd call when you heard about the attempt."

You were seething. Whoever this person was, you could almost feel their derision as they spoke to you. Smug and patronizing at the same time.

"I paid ten grand over the fee to have it cancelled. I am no longer contracting the hit, I called it off."

There was a deep chuckle on the other end of the line.

"That's not how it works sweetheart. You paid for a hit, we outsourced it to a merc in the area. We don't have a refund policy."

"I'm not asking for a refund, I'm asking for you to stop. I paid extra for that reason. I made a mistake, I don't want to go through with it."

There it was again, that chuckle. The sound made the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

"Sorry sweetheart, no can do. The merc won't stop until he's done his job. You can tell Russo about the hit and maybe he can go off grid and be safe again. Otherwise…"

The dial tone cut into whatever you were going to say in response. You opened your mouth and felt like screaming, but the knowledge that Billy was asleep in the other room had you rethinking that.

You had met Billy at the bar and two days later, in a fit of alcohol fueled anger and sadness, you had looked into a number your brother had given you a long time ago. It didn't feel like anything to put a hit on a man you didn't know. You even pushed the date out with the intention of making a spectacle of it. Have Billy die on your brother's birthday. It was going to be poetic.

Only you'd fallen for Billy pretty quickly. You thought the contract was canceled since you had paid what you had thought was a generous cancellation fee.

Turns out you had been sorely mistaken.

You knew you should tell Billy that it wasn’t a coincidence, that he was still in danger, but you didn't want to lose him. You couldn't lose him.

You meant it when you said that you would help him. And if you couldn't pay off the merc, you'd have to find a different way to figure it out.

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"You're up early," Billy remarked when he came out of the bedroom.

"Couldn't sleep," you replied as you flipped through the files on your desk. "Hope I didn't wake you. Figured I'd work on some contracts this morning."

Mostly to keep your mind off of the fact that someone was trying to kill Billy and it was your fault.

"I need to head to the police department."

That made you pause. Billy had bent down and picked up the vest he had been wearing last night. You watched as he fingered the bullet impressions.

"Three bullets to the chest on your brother's birthday. I figured it was too much to be a coincidence," he explained as he looked over at you. "I'm sorry I blamed you."

You felt sick to your stomach. Without letting on, you gave him a smile.

"I get it, really. But do you think it was random? Or are you a target?"

He shrugged a shoulder as he dropped the vest onto the coffee table. He moved around to where your desk was stationed and leaned in to kiss you.

"Honestly? I always just assume I'm a target. I'm going to take some precautions for a while, see what I can find. But I want you to be careful too. This person might try to go after the people I care about to get to me."

You nodded and pulled him back in for another kiss, trying to pour all your love into the brief touch.

"Of course. I'll work from home for a few days." It would give you a chance to figure out how to stop this. "Be careful out there Billy. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you."

Probably something drastic. Definitely something dangerous.

"Not going anywhere," he promised with another kiss before he headed off towards the door.

You just hoped he was right.

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The cafe was pretty empty. You drummed your fingers on the vinyl tabletop as you waited for your friend to get there. You’d called him and told him you needed to meet him immediately. He didn’t like being in public, but you knew that he’d make an exception for you.

And you doubted he’d want to have this conversation in the house he shared with his family.

“Y/N,” a familiar voice called softly from beside you before David Lieberman lowered himself into the chair across from you, “you look like hell. They serve Irish coffee here?”

After he got some coffee, you crossed your arms onto the top of the table and leaned forward a bit.

“You remember that thing I was thinking about doing last year? That thing you told me not to do?”

He’d told you that it wouldn’t bring your brother back, that it wouldn’t solve anything. He promised that you’d regret it. You didn’t think he knew just how far gone you’d end up over Billy, but he definitely knew you well enough to guess you couldn’t stomach the idea of being the cause of his death.

“Don’t tell me you did it,” he said in a low voice, his eyes narrowing as he looked at your guilty face. “Jesus Christ Y/N. You–”

“He didn’t die,” you said quickly, cutting your eyes to the waitress who was too absorbed in a magazine to be paying the two of you any attention. “He was wearing a vest, thank god, but that’s not why I called you. The problem is that I paid them to cancel the hit and yet it happened anyways.”

“It’s not like a couch delivery Y/N!” He hissed out his next words, low and venomous, “You ordered a hit like most people order a pizza, what did you expect? These guys are murderers, they don’t stop until they succeed.”

Your hands were shaking where they were clasped in your lap.

“I know that now. After the first try, I called the contact and he told me that the mercenary wasn’t going to give up. I didn’t know what else to do so I called you.”

David leaned back in his chair. He picked up his mug and drained about half of it in one gulp, obviously wishing there was something stronger in the cup. Once he put it down, he gave a shake of his head and met your eyes.

“What do you need from me?”

You sighed out in relief, something you hadn’t felt since the moment Billy had stormed into your condo. If anyone could help you figure this out, David could.

“I need some information on these guys. Something that I can use to get this turned around. If something happens to Billy and it’s my fault? I’d never forgive myself.”

He raised an eyebrow but didn’t comment immediately. After a moment, he shook his head.

“Why can’t you just tell Billy the truth? That you did this before you knew him and it’s gotten out of hand?”

Because you’d lose him. You knew that if you were honest with Billy, while he’d appreciate the honesty, you’d never have his trust again. He’d hate you for it. You would be an enemy, an obstacle. You’d lose him and you weren’t willing to chance it.

“Okay,” David offered softly, seeing the answer on your face and not requiring you to vocalize it, “okay, I’ll see what I can do. Do you have the number?”

You passed over a folded piece of paper, all of the information you had. It wasn’t much, but David was good at what he did.

“Thank you David,” you said quietly, voice filled with sincerity.

“Don’t thank me yet,” he said as he looked over the paper, committing it to memory before it dunked it into his coffee cup to get rid of the evidence. “This is going to take time. It’s up to you to keep Billy alive long enough for me to save his life.”

You nodded, steeling yourself for the job you had undertaken. It was going to be difficult, but you would do what you had to.

You couldn’t lose Billy.

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artichoke-that-hoe · 6 years

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Full Avengers Infinity War Review (Broken down into spoiler free, mildly spoilerish, and extremely spoiltt[after the page break dw] sections)

Spoiler-Free:

Initial thoughts: what. the absolute. fuck. How can one movie tear my soul apart like this?? And the end credit scene?? Holy shit so many mixed emotions I’m having trouble processing this holy shit what the fuck

After calming down slightly: there has been a clear change in the tone of marvel movies as they moved from their angsty teen goth phase to their wine aunt I don’t give a fuck phase. I went into this film thinking the tonal shift between comic relief characters and more angsty characters would have been harsh and abrasive but for the most part it was actually very smooth, it gave us a more complex look at otherwise two dimensional characters and added a bit of lightness to an otherwise heavy film

The back and forth between different groups of characters till their inevitable union at the end was smooth and kept the plot moving forward at a reasonable pace

The pace was actually so fast, but not an unfollowable fast, it felt as if the movie somehow morphed time in our world, what felt like half an hour to me was actually the entire duration of the movie

And holy shit the lighting!! The cinematography!! The CGI!! It wasn’t dark and hardly viewable even on the big screen! There were so many beautifully lit scenes(albeit there were some murky dark scenes that reminded me of the old avanegers movies) they really took a page out of Thor Ragnorak and Black Panthers book because the fight scenes (of which there were many) were so incredible and dramatic and full of emotion!

But honestly, so much of it was shocking and unexpected that there were moments where it didn’t feel even remotely real in the out-of-body experience type of way.

Mildly spoilerish but no real details:

The trailer actually threw us some curve balls. I generally avoid trailers because I believe they give away too much but the few stills that I did see were actually very misleading and as I’m writing this I’m thinking that they might actually be hints to the events of Avengers 4????

There was so much loss, with such a huge cast and such a daunting and powerful villain (that was teased for like 13 movies) it was completely inevitable but each loss hit so hard it’s hard to process it. And there are characters that we still don’t know the fate of and it’s killing me that I have to wait an entire year for the next part.

Related side note: you know the Russo brothers are sick of mcu’s bullshit when a character literally says “no resurrection this time” after a death jfc I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time

FULL SPOILERS LIKE IM GONNA GO INTO SPECIFIC EVENTS OF THE MOVIE(be warned I get incoherent bc I’m still so emotional):

Holy. Shit. Literally wide cut to the opening scene where thanos has literally murdered HALF OF ASGARD and in the first five minutes he’s murdered Loki (see: above reference to no resurrection) and heimdall (there goes MatPats theory about the soul stone) I’ve never had a movie shake me to my core this quickly. Before heimdall dies he uses his final moments to send hulk back to earth where he spends the rest of the movie as banner bc hulk is throwing a teenage temper tantrum and banner has erectile dishulktion like bitch get your shit together when did hulk become poorly timed comic relief.

Skipping forward a bit because I’m not gonna recap the entire movie; when the guardians find Thor in the wreckage of the asgardian ship it was honestly the best thing ever. Drac literally describes Thor as a cross between an angel and a pirate all while fat shaming quill oh my god it was amazing and I’m so incredibly sad we lost him

SPEAKING OF HEARTBREAKING DEATHS PETER PARKER YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!

The way he clings to tony at the end and just keeps saying he doesn’t want to go oh my god that absolutely broke me

And then there were the simpler deaths like Bucky who just says “Steve” EHICH IM PRETTY SURE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE SAYS STEVE SINCE BECOMING THE WINTERSOLDIER HOLY SHIT MY EMOTIONS

Holy shit I can’t explain in words to you the emotions I felt when t’challa reaches for Okoye and says “this is no place to die” then his hand just crumbles away along with the rest of him and the rest of my heart (SIDE NOTE BLACK PANTHER DID SO WELL IN THE BOX OFFICE HOW THE HELL ARE YOU GONNA KILL OFF THE LEAD?? DOES THIS MEAN NO BLACK PANTHER 2??)

and dear god help me the end credit scene how the hell are you gonna kill off Maria Hill and Nick Fury in the fucking END CREDITS???

There was literally a collective gasp in my theatre as Fury started fading away

Buttt the captain marvel reference at the very end!!! Our girl carol danvers is gonna be in the next avengers!! (We need her they killed off so many female characters lord give me strength to overcome this adversity in the face of lack of diversity)

OkAy coming back from all the death let’s talk about the fact that throughout the film Thor calls Rocket “rabbit” and never once gets corrected??? It was honestly one of my favourite things

And Thor trying to relate to Gamoras fucked up family by telling her about his and quill getting jealous it was so cute I loved their dynamic.

Vision and Wanda’s relationship felt so natural, their chemistry was fucking fantastic and their final scene together where Wanda gave in to the inevitable and had to destroy the mind stone and vision along with it holy shit that entire scene was so incredibly heart breaking with the way vision kept saying it’s alright over and over again till his final moments. They had a chance to be a normal couple living happily in Scotland away from everything, they could had had it all and it was torn from them so savagely.

And as I’m writing this I’m realizing that none of this makes sense. How could they kill off half the cast especially so many fan favourites and so many characters whose contracts don’t expire anytime soon?? So on tooo:

Theories:

Okay so why would doctor strange give thanos the time stone in exchange for Tony’s life? Why would he give up the thing that he has sworn his life to protecting and essentially sentence billions of beings to save the life of one that was not guaranteed to survive? None of that makes sense unless the one out of 14 million alternate futures he saw involved all of this happening and then somehow being reversed??

At the end of the movie we see a burnt out gauntlet implying that it can no longer be used but what if the individual stones can still be used? What if they’re still able to turn back time and bring back those they’ve lost?

This theories got a bunch of holes and it definitely wouldn’t make sense to bring back the entire roster but after a quick google search Holland, Pratt and the rest of the guardians, Boseman, and Cumberbatch all have marvel movies coming out in the next few years so really nothing is real death is a lie and I feel nothing 🙃 .

#The Avengers #infinity war #avengers infinity war #review #is this a review or is it just the incoherent ramblings of a madwoman??#por que no los dos #anyway #spoiler free #but also #spoiler alert #only after the page break

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