[Generation Kill] Brad/Nate | Frozen Second
Title: Frozen Second
Summary: Two snippets of Nate and Brad realizing that there's something in between them. [observe everything, admire nothing - aka guardian angel verse; set wayyyy before Punishment, and somewhere in Administrative Matters?]
Fandom: Generation Kill
Characters/Pairings: Brad/Nate
Genre: AU, angst
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Word Count: 310
Author's Notes: For the 30 days writing challenge. Prompt #26: "For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world." (Russell Brand, My Booky Wook.)
Disclaimer: Based on the fictionalized characters as played by Stark Sands and misc. in the HBO miniseries, not the real people.
The first time Brad thinks he might be in trouble with Nate is when Ray asks their CO about his past life and Nate gives a vague answer, and Brad wants to know more. Wants to know about Nate's family, and his life, and his death, and how he deals with so much shit and why. So he jogs after Nate, catches his arm and doesn't take no for an answer until Nate grins-the one that's seemingly always reserved for Brad and no one else-and outlines his life briefly before using his Command powers and literally popping off to his office.
The second time is when he has to reap a ten-year-old girl suffering from cancer, and leaves Ray alone to deal with himself. Nate tries to talk to him through the wire, their mental connection, but Brad blocks it out, blocks everything out, until Nate unnecessarily knocks on his door and slams Brad into the wall to tell him to get it together.
The third time happens seven seconds later when Brad kisses Nate, and isn't sure why he's doing it until Nate kisses him back.
*
Nate falls in love with Brad when Brad rises out of his own body. Brad looks at him with those beautifully bewildered grey eyes, silently questioning but not resisting. Nate's seen his share of humans, of angels, but none of them quite compare to Brad. It's disconcerting.
He says to Brad, come on, and you're safe, follow me, and Brad does. Nate shows him to Godfather, explains the duties of the angels, and laughs at the acidic humor Brad finally shows, dry and dark and mixed with a dismay that he's actually immortal and can't really feel the rush of speed anymore.
Nate falls hard for Brad across the span of fifty-two years, six months, and eleven days.
Then he's just falling.
Summary: Two snippets of Nate and Brad realizing that there's something in between them. [observe everything, admire nothing - aka guardian angel verse; set wayyyy before Punishment, and somewhere in Administrative Matters?]
Fandom: Generation Kill
Characters/Pairings: Brad/Nate
Genre: AU, angst
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Word Count: 310
Author's Notes: For the 30 days writing challenge. Prompt #26: "For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world." (Russell Brand, My Booky Wook.)
Disclaimer: Based on the fictionalized characters as played by Stark Sands and misc. in the HBO miniseries, not the real people.
The first time Brad thinks he might be in trouble with Nate is when Ray asks their CO about his past life and Nate gives a vague answer, and Brad wants to know more. Wants to know about Nate's family, and his life, and his death, and how he deals with so much shit and why. So he jogs after Nate, catches his arm and doesn't take no for an answer until Nate grins-the one that's seemingly always reserved for Brad and no one else-and outlines his life briefly before using his Command powers and literally popping off to his office.
The second time is when he has to reap a ten-year-old girl suffering from cancer, and leaves Ray alone to deal with himself. Nate tries to talk to him through the wire, their mental connection, but Brad blocks it out, blocks everything out, until Nate unnecessarily knocks on his door and slams Brad into the wall to tell him to get it together.
The third time happens seven seconds later when Brad kisses Nate, and isn't sure why he's doing it until Nate kisses him back.
*
Nate falls in love with Brad when Brad rises out of his own body. Brad looks at him with those beautifully bewildered grey eyes, silently questioning but not resisting. Nate's seen his share of humans, of angels, but none of them quite compare to Brad. It's disconcerting.
He says to Brad, come on, and you're safe, follow me, and Brad does. Nate shows him to Godfather, explains the duties of the angels, and laughs at the acidic humor Brad finally shows, dry and dark and mixed with a dismay that he's actually immortal and can't really feel the rush of speed anymore.
Nate falls hard for Brad across the span of fifty-two years, six months, and eleven days.
Then he's just falling.