FAKE Ficlet: Who’d Have Thought?
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badly_knittedTired: Who’d Have Thought?
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG-15
Word Count: 558
Setting: After Vol. 7.
Summary: Looking back, Ryo would never have guessed he’d fall for his exasperating partner.
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doreyg’s prompt ‘Any, any, I used to call you my best friend way back before you were my everything / Now I'm sucking your neck’ at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
threesentenceficathon.Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
Life is weird, Ryo thinks, full of unexpected twists and turns, but maybe that’s exactly how it should be, because otherwise, if you knew the way things would go, there’d be no surprises, and while that might make everything safe and easy to predict, it would probably also be boring.
Nothing about the last few years of his life has been predictable though, he was completely blindsided from the moment he set foot in the two-seven’s station house. Having passed the exam and been promoted to detective, he’d thought he was ready for whatever this new stage in his career had in store for him, but looking back at the way things started… He can’t help being both amazed and amused at his own naivety.
He’d been totally out of his depth, and the Chief hadn’t helped matters by randomly shoving him together with a cocky, loudmouthed, borderline obnoxious, younger, but considerably more experienced detective as his partner. Dee Laytner had confounded him, embarrassed him, confused and exasperated him, among other things. Who would have guessed they’d end up like this?
Well, Dee, obviously; this had always been his plan, the bastard. He’d known what he wanted pretty much from the start, and had set about making it happen, but Ryo certainly hadn’t. Dee had been his work partner, impossibly likeable despite the way he treated Ryo’s personal space as if he had every right to invade it whenever he chose, and somehow, even though they couldn’t have been more different from each other, Dee had soon become Ryo’s best and most trusted friend. Never mind that Dee couldn’t keep his hands, or his lips to himself whenever they were alone together; despite the other man’s lack of impulse control, Ryo had never once considered asking for a new partner, or a transfer to another precinct, and now…
Now it’s Ryo’s lips that are wandering, although his hands have yet to join in the fun, but judging by the sounds his partner, his lover, is making, the way he’s writhing, squirming, and trying to pull Ryo even closer, he must be doing something right. So Ryo shifts into a more comfortable position, one that allows more body contact, and smiles to himself, feeling a thrill go through him as Dee actually whimpers. Then he sucks on his lover’s neck a little harder, drawing blood to the surface as Dee has done to him more times than Ryo can count, marking this beautiful, amazing man as his. It doesn’t matter that no one else will ever see the love bite; he’ll know it’s there, and so will Dee.
Dee groans, clutching at Ryo, gasping, his body arching off the bed. The feeling of having so much power over the man he loves is making Ryo’s heart pound and his head spin, but that’s okay; Dee always manages to do that to him, often with nothing more than a knowing smile or a brush of his hand… Yeah, that first day, when Dee had gotten right up close and looked deep into his eyes, when Ryo had been so torn between taking a step back or pushing his new partner away that he’d ended up doing neither… Who would ever have guessed it would come to this? Not Ryo, but that just goes to show how wonderful unpredictability can be.
The End
Nothing about the last few years of his life has been predictable though, he was completely blindsided from the moment he set foot in the two-seven’s station house. Having passed the exam and been promoted to detective, he’d thought he was ready for whatever this new stage in his career had in store for him, but looking back at the way things started… He can’t help being both amazed and amused at his own naivety.
He’d been totally out of his depth, and the Chief hadn’t helped matters by randomly shoving him together with a cocky, loudmouthed, borderline obnoxious, younger, but considerably more experienced detective as his partner. Dee Laytner had confounded him, embarrassed him, confused and exasperated him, among other things. Who would have guessed they’d end up like this?
Well, Dee, obviously; this had always been his plan, the bastard. He’d known what he wanted pretty much from the start, and had set about making it happen, but Ryo certainly hadn’t. Dee had been his work partner, impossibly likeable despite the way he treated Ryo’s personal space as if he had every right to invade it whenever he chose, and somehow, even though they couldn’t have been more different from each other, Dee had soon become Ryo’s best and most trusted friend. Never mind that Dee couldn’t keep his hands, or his lips to himself whenever they were alone together; despite the other man’s lack of impulse control, Ryo had never once considered asking for a new partner, or a transfer to another precinct, and now…
Now it’s Ryo’s lips that are wandering, although his hands have yet to join in the fun, but judging by the sounds his partner, his lover, is making, the way he’s writhing, squirming, and trying to pull Ryo even closer, he must be doing something right. So Ryo shifts into a more comfortable position, one that allows more body contact, and smiles to himself, feeling a thrill go through him as Dee actually whimpers. Then he sucks on his lover’s neck a little harder, drawing blood to the surface as Dee has done to him more times than Ryo can count, marking this beautiful, amazing man as his. It doesn’t matter that no one else will ever see the love bite; he’ll know it’s there, and so will Dee.
Dee groans, clutching at Ryo, gasping, his body arching off the bed. The feeling of having so much power over the man he loves is making Ryo’s heart pound and his head spin, but that’s okay; Dee always manages to do that to him, often with nothing more than a knowing smile or a brush of his hand… Yeah, that first day, when Dee had gotten right up close and looked deep into his eyes, when Ryo had been so torn between taking a step back or pushing his new partner away that he’d ended up doing neither… Who would ever have guessed it would come to this? Not Ryo, but that just goes to show how wonderful unpredictability can be.
The End
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