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storypaint) wrote2010-01-05 01:17 pm
storypaint) wrote2010-01-05 01:17 pm
[Arrested Development] Heritage of Failure (Michael gen)
Title: Heritage of Failure
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 137 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Arrested Development, Michael, "I've made a huge mistake."
Pairing: mention of Michael/Marta; Michael gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: If there is one thing that the Bluths are good at, besides lying and cheating and selfishness (because we must include Michael in this family, and he isn't very good at any of these), it is failure.
"I've made a huge mistake," Michael says, the feel of the words so familiar on his lips. If there is one thing that the Bluths are good at, besides lying and cheating and selfishness (because we must include Michael in this family, and he isn't very good at any of these), it is failure, and Michael is intimately acquainted with making mistakes (an arm, a growl, "this is why;" Marta's face, the way George Michael hesitates when something has gone wrong again).
Michael doesn't forget these mistakes, which is something else the other Bluths are good at: there will always be overdrawn credit cards and dead doves in the fridge; Michael sighs and fixes things, and makes new mistakes the next time, because he tries very hard at everything he does, even at living when he remembers.
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 137 words
Prompt: Three-Sentence Fic-a-thon: Arrested Development, Michael, "I've made a huge mistake."
Pairing: mention of Michael/Marta; Michael gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: If there is one thing that the Bluths are good at, besides lying and cheating and selfishness (because we must include Michael in this family, and he isn't very good at any of these), it is failure.
"I've made a huge mistake," Michael says, the feel of the words so familiar on his lips. If there is one thing that the Bluths are good at, besides lying and cheating and selfishness (because we must include Michael in this family, and he isn't very good at any of these), it is failure, and Michael is intimately acquainted with making mistakes (an arm, a growl, "this is why;" Marta's face, the way George Michael hesitates when something has gone wrong again).
Michael doesn't forget these mistakes, which is something else the other Bluths are good at: there will always be overdrawn credit cards and dead doves in the fridge; Michael sighs and fixes things, and makes new mistakes the next time, because he tries very hard at everything he does, even at living when he remembers.