Post by Seek on Apr 3, 2011 3:40:39 GMT 10
Title: Thayet
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 272
Pairing: Jon/Kel
Round/Fight: 1/F
Summary: Thayet: Jon and Kel talk about Thayet. Warning for possible character death. Set in the Agents universe where Jon and Kel are FBI. And Thayet is missing.
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One day, (she doesn’t know why) she is bold enough to ask about the golden band around his ring finger, the one he rubs when he is thinking. Jon’s fingers brush the surface of the ring several times; his eyes are on her, startled, and very blue. When he looks at her, they are a deep blue, but his mind is elsewhere, and now they are the pale blue of a sky before rain.
“I’m married,” he says then, after Kel kicks herself for asking him such a personal question, and after she thinks he isn’t going to answer her. There’s a twist to his mouth – she can’t put her finger on the emotion, and only does so later. Self-deprecating. Unhappy. Right now, she studies the sad, tired lines of his face and says nothing. Eventually (because she must), she asks about Jon’s wife.
“Thayet,” Jon replies, “Her name was Thayet.”
“Was?”
“She’s gone,” Jon says. His voice is rough; it catches, like a burr under her skin, and his eyes shift a little. There’s something Jon isn’t telling her, but she doesn’t have the right to press him for his life when he doesn’t quite press her for details of hers. So Kel doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t take his hand in hers and press it briefly. He’d pull away if she did, and part of her notes he’s said ‘I’m married,’ not ‘I was married,’ and it just wouldn’t be right.
This is how they sit there for ten minutes according to Kel’s watch, before Jon breaks this awkward silence first, saying he has work to do.
QC: by Cassandra
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 272
Pairing: Jon/Kel
Round/Fight: 1/F
Summary: Thayet: Jon and Kel talk about Thayet. Warning for possible character death. Set in the Agents universe where Jon and Kel are FBI. And Thayet is missing.
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One day, (she doesn’t know why) she is bold enough to ask about the golden band around his ring finger, the one he rubs when he is thinking. Jon’s fingers brush the surface of the ring several times; his eyes are on her, startled, and very blue. When he looks at her, they are a deep blue, but his mind is elsewhere, and now they are the pale blue of a sky before rain.
“I’m married,” he says then, after Kel kicks herself for asking him such a personal question, and after she thinks he isn’t going to answer her. There’s a twist to his mouth – she can’t put her finger on the emotion, and only does so later. Self-deprecating. Unhappy. Right now, she studies the sad, tired lines of his face and says nothing. Eventually (because she must), she asks about Jon’s wife.
“Thayet,” Jon replies, “Her name was Thayet.”
“Was?”
“She’s gone,” Jon says. His voice is rough; it catches, like a burr under her skin, and his eyes shift a little. There’s something Jon isn’t telling her, but she doesn’t have the right to press him for his life when he doesn’t quite press her for details of hers. So Kel doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t take his hand in hers and press it briefly. He’d pull away if she did, and part of her notes he’s said ‘I’m married,’ not ‘I was married,’ and it just wouldn’t be right.
This is how they sit there for ten minutes according to Kel’s watch, before Jon breaks this awkward silence first, saying he has work to do.
QC: by Cassandra