#mostly so that miller can tell him off skjdhfsdf

[patrice-bergerons]

I wish writing anything longer than 4k was not such an involved exercise time and mental burden wise for me because I would have loved to write a broadchurch fic hardy asks ellie to drive him to scotland for his dad's funeral.

like maybe he recently received a shock from his pacemaker/icd so he temporarily can't drive, and public transportation would take way too long for what is a 24 hour visit, so he asks her, thinking she can drop him off, enjoy a nice day in scotland and drive him back but ofc the moment his family sees her they question who she is, chastising him for the inappropriateness of bringing a new gf to a funeral. easy enough misconception to correct, except hardy -- in classic hardy fashion -- has not told them anything about his heart problems and is not particularly willing to do so now given that his dad also died of heart disease. anyway cue fake dating, explorations dysfunctional families and whether we are doomed to repeat the past and the mortifying ordeal of being known.

#broadchurch #alec hardy #fic ideas #i want it to be the case that no one is that sad that hardy's dad is gone #his family (other than hardy) proclaims to be and they go thru the motions #but ultimately -- he was an unkind self-centred man in a perfectly mundane way and the world is not any worse now that he is gone #bc i want hardy to think -- between his own standoffishness and the history of heart disease -- that this is what it will be like #when HE dies #mostly so that miller can tell him off skjdhfsdf #no this has nothing to do with growing up always being told im like my (unkin self centred) dad by my mom why do you ask