firecat

bethefirst is a challenge to write a work for a fandom that has no published fanfic yet. (You're supposed to check AO3 and fanfiction.net.) It has been running for seven years. This year the event had a record 48 fics posted—including fics for Tony Hillerman's Chee & Leaphorn series, "Love Shack" by the B-52s, and Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny.

I wrote a fic for the movie The Good Thief, directed and written by Neil Jordan. I was surprised to find there were no fics for this movie because there are lots of shipping possibilities, an "aging con man with a heart of gold" role that Nick Nolte was born for, and a fun heist involving a casino. Plus Neil Jordan's stories are kind of fannish in themselves, there's usually some "fairy tale meets gritty/noir urban" trope, and the soundtracks are full of wonderful old songs. (This one has "A Thousand Kisses Deep" by Leonard Cohen, among others.) Jordan does have a tendency to create less than fully developed female characters that exist primarily for the protagonist to react to, but he's hardly the only movie-maker to have that problem.

What I wrote:
Back on Boogie Street (2688 words) by firecat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Good Thief (2002)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bob Montagnet/Roger
Characters: Bob Montagnet, Roger, Anne
Additional Tags: Detective Noir, Gambling, Heist, Aging, Pining, Complicated Relationships, thieves, Addiction, Flirting
Summary:

Rumor has it that Bob Montagnet, addict, gambler, and criminal mastermind, has come out of retirement to plan one last job. Roger, the cop who’s obsessed with him, needs to stop him before the plan fails, as it is sure to do. If Roger has to send Bob to jail again, they’re going to throw away the key.