#i swear at one point hellfire & ice was JUST a romcom i swear

[powderblueblood]

i have daaaaark thoughts about this can i tell you

like what if what if what actually if ray doevski (who is lacy's father duh who is a low grade narco also) helped elizabeth munson with assisted suicide when she got sick

because the munsons were poor as fuck no health insurance and al as much as he wanted to stick a big job to rake in enough cash for elizabeth's treatment COULDN'T

elizabeth approaches ray and is like 'man. let me give it to you straight. i want you to kill me. i don't mean like bullet through the eyes or drown me in a gasoline bath. i wanna peter out slow. not slow enough that my boy sees me real sick but slow enough that i still have some good days with him. think you can help me with that?'

ray, taken aback by her candor, 'what makes you think i'm capable of something like that?'

'you are. you're just impersonal about it. you got dealers that separate you from the blowback. this'd be a favor.'

and it's only now that ray has lacy that he understands that yeah of course you'd do anything for your kids. and elizabeth munson just has this effect on people.... goodness radiates off her. you want to give her what she wants.

after that lethal dose of whatever is administered and elizabeth dies peacefully in her bed when eddie is 6, her ghost dogs ray doevski around like a bloodhound. whatever about al (which is heartless, sure, watching that guy go crazy off the rails with grief), there's this cavernous debt between eddie munson and ray doevski that eddie will never know about.

he owes eddie a mother. or some semblance of peace.

elizabeth sticks around and reminds him of that.

his sweet lorelei, his lacy, constantly put in eddie's direct line of action and vice versa, reminds him of that.

the hook brings you back.