Title: Drabble: One Angry Man.
Author: lannamichaels
Fandom: 12 Angry Men
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: You keep closing your eyes and seeing it.



In the room, you keep closing your eyes and seeing it: Jack's fist flying toward your face. If he'd been holding a knife, it'd be you dead on the floor and Jack begging not to get the chair.

You wonder if Carol would have testified; she always took Jack's side. She made him weak; it took you to make him a man.

And if he'd been holding a knife, he'd have been a murderer, too.

These men, they don't understand. They're not fathers, not real ones. They don't know what it takes to raise a boy that doesn't shame you.