Fic: Kept

[viceindustrious]

Title: Kept
Fandom: Left Behind
Pairing: Nicolae/Buck
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
Summary: An AU where the GIRAT made a better choice.
Word count: 216 (:D)
Notes: Written for day fourteen of the adventchallenge. Prompt: Christmas Past. This is a bit of an usual prompt response because it's about my Christmases past rather than the fic! I spent today hanging around with coryphaeusrex  and got hit with nostalgia! :P See, we can still share fandoms...

Buck sips his coffee. Types a word. Takes another sip. Full stop. New paragraph.

His eyes skim over the last of what he’s written, mental red pen at the ready, but once he gets to the end of the article he realizes there’s nothing he needs to correct. Nothing he wants to correct anyway. Maybe there are a few personal touches in his prose that Steve would’ve frowned at, maybe it’s not perfect copy, but it’s his style and he likes it, so it stays.

He’s got the freedom to write any damn way he pleases now. He’s won awards, more plaques and little statuettes than he’s got room for.

Soon he'll have all the room he could ever need. Nicolae whispers visions of New Babylon against his skin as they lay together in bed, how magnificent, how breathtaking it will be.

Sometimes he wonders how things might have been if he had turned down Nicolae's offer. He tries to imagine another life, where he stepped back when Nicolae stepped forward, where he pulled his hand free off Nicolae's grip instead of breathing out slow and afraid and too overwhelmed to think. Where Nicolae didn't kiss him.

But Buck's imagination isn't so great and he doesn't think that story would be a very good one anyway.

Comments

[coryphaeusrex.livejournal.com]

*tackleglomps*

It's just... so little and perfect and sweet (and do remember this is coming from someone who hated Buck/Nick with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns).

AND OH MY GOD IT IS 216 WORDS. :D You win at life.

[unsettledink.livejournal.com]

So here's the really fascinating thing: I don't have a clue what this fandom is. Never heard of it, no idea who these people are or what's going on. Yet. Ever since I read this ages ago, when it was first posted, it's been coming back to me, floating up in my mind at odd moments. That I remember it very clearly.

Huh.

Mm, little bit on writing, yes, I like! And, it feels like something ... normalish? And then there's that little twist in the whisper and I just want to know more...

And I kind of have to both daaw and laugh at his easy, casual dismissal of this other world.