Fic: 5 TImes Bradley Is Subtle About Telling Colin He's Gay, And One Time He's Not
Title: 5 Times Bradley Is Subtle About Telling Colin He’s Gay, And One Time He’s Not
Author: captains_girl
Rating: PG-13- Some swearing and sex references.
Words: 1232
Fandom/Pairing/Characters: Merlin RPS. Bradley/Colin. A dash of Angel, Katie and Anthony.
Warnings: Musicals and campness. Lady Gaga. RPS.
Summary: Bradley looks at Colin as if he is insane. “I’m gay” he explains. “Oh, that’s nice.” says Bradley, when what he really means is ‘me too.’
A/N: A bit of silliness that came to me late one night, should be crack!fic really. This is no Shakespeare, but hopefully it’s a little amusing anyways. Oh and thanks to my beta, cheerleader and general all round awesomesauce calliglad
Disclaimer: This is not real. It is made up. I do not own anyone in this fic. Or Merlin. Or the BBC. I make no profit. No harm is intended. This is entirely my warped imagination… :)
Bradley’s nervous.
He’s about to meet his ‘Merlin’ cast mates for the first time and frankly, he’s bricking it. He looks at the cast list for the millionth time. There is his name is right in between Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath, who, apparently, are playing Merlin and Morgana respectively. He scans the list again, and his heart speeds up when he sees Anthony Stewart Head- It’s frickin’ Giles!!! He’s loved Buffy ever since, well, ever since he can remember really. (Giles!)
He’s standing by the buffet table just watching Giles-- sorry, Anthony, talk to Richard Wilson (I don‘t believe it!) when he sees someone beside him in his peripheral. He looks to see Colin, piling up his plate. Colin turns and smiles at him. Bradley smiles back. Colin laughs. Bradley admires Colin’s chiselled cheekbones and jaw. Colin stops laughing.
Bradley tries to break the ice. “Katie is gorgeous isn’t she? Glad I get to play opposite her!”
“She’s pretty, yes,” Colin replies in strong Irish tones, “but I don’t know about gorgeous.” Bradley looks at Colin as if he is insane. “I’m gay” he explains.
“Oh, that’s nice.” says Bradley, when what he really means is ‘me too.’ Before he has time to rectify his (now thinking about it, could be mistaken for an unfriendly) answer, Colin has walked away and Angel corners him into talking about his role on ‘Lewis’. (She’s a big fan apparently.)
1.
Now that he’s said Katie is gorgeous and ‘oh that’s nice’ instead of ‘me too’, Bradley can’t just come out with the fact he’s gay (pun intended). Colin might think he was taking the piss. Or just being an idiot. The problem is, he thinks he’s fallen completely and entirely in love with Colin. So he tries to do it subtly.
The next day, during a break in filming, Bradley whips out a book to read.
“Since when have you been into reading?” asks Katie walking past.
“Shut up McGrath.”
“Yeah don’t hurt ickle Bradders’ feelings now!” Colin joins in.
Katie walks away, muttering something that sounds distinctly like, ‘Boys!’
“But she’s right, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you read anything apart from your script. So books are a big leap for you, especially-” Colin peers at the cover and Bradley waits expectantly, “-‘boy meets boy‘.”
Bradley waits for Colin’s “Oh my God you’re gay too!” but it doesn’t come (pun not intended).
Colin just sits there. Smiling. “I’ve never heard of it” he says finally.
“Oh.”
2.
“Oh my God, no way!” Katie screams from her make-up chair, as Bradley tells her he’s gay.
Angel chooses that moment to walk into the trailer. “No way what?” she asks.
“Bradley’s gay!” Katie squawks.
“Keep it down Katie!”
“Really?” asks Angel.
“Really” says Bradley, “and how can I tell Colin?”
“Well, I imagine you just say, ‘Colin I’m gay’” says Angel.
“It’s not that simple!”
“It’s not?”
“No. I told Colin I fancied girls, and when he told me he was gay I said ‘that’s nice’.”
“…”
“I know.”
*
Bradley decides to take Colin to a musical in their week off. More specifically to a musical about a world where it is the norm to be gay, and the lead character is a camp, loveable, wish-granter. That must suggest something to Colin, right?
“I’ve never heard of this ‘Zanna, Don’t!’ before, Brads. Are you sure you’re going to like it?” Colin asks staring at the synopsis.
“Oh yes,” Bradley nods over-enthusiastically. “It’s very much my thing."
“Right.”
*
“Well… That was…”
“Camp,” Colin says strolling out the theatre.
“I enjoyed it!” Bradley protests.
Colin raises an eyebrow.
“I did!”
(He really did.)
“Well, I’m glad.”
Colin smiles. And Bradley melts.
3.
Bradley tries serenading Colin because, really, this love thing is getting a little out of hand.
“’Night and day, you are the one! Only you beneath the moon or under the sun! Whether near to me, or far, it's no matter darling where you are, I think of you day and night, night and day!!!’” Bradley sings bursting into Colin’s hotel room.
“What in God’s name are you doing?!” Colin asks.
“I’m serenading you.”
“I see.”
“Not a fan of Cole Porter?”
“Who?”
“You don’t know who Cole Porter is?! Never mind. How about, ‘You dooooo something to meeee. Something deep insideeee‘…?”
“I hate Paul Weller.”
“I know other love songs! Um, ‘I’m your biggest fan, I’ll follow you until you love meeeee, Pappa, papparazzi!”
“Is that a love song? Bit stalkerish isn’t it?”
Bradley shrugs.
(He likes Lady Gaga).
“Well, just don’t try and woo any girls that way,” Colin says, before ushering Bradley out so he can have a shower. (Bradley would much rather stay and watch.)
4.
“What’s very gay?” Bradley asks Gil-- Anthony.
“How would I know? You’re the gay one in this conversation.”
“I’ll have you know I find that highly offensive, Giles!” Bradley pouts and storms off.
*
“Katie reckons she’s got a good gay-dar,” Bradley drops into conversation with Colin one day, “but I told her it’s only gay men that have good gay-dars. Mine’s pretty good. How’s yours?”
No answer.
“Colin? Colin?!” Bradley nudges him.
“Sorry mate, I was listening to my iPod. What were you saying?”
“Nothing. It doesn’t matter.”
5.
“Do you like my new posters?” Bradley asks, showing Colin the Torsos of the week he collected from heat, and has stuck above his bed.
“This isn’t funny anymore, Bradley.”
“What?” asks Bradley, bemused.
“This whole you making fun of the ‘Colin Morgan is gay’ thing. It’s got old now.” Colin starts to storm away.
“It’s not like that!” Bradley cries.
Colin’s face softens. “Okay, I spoke to Katie and she said maybe it’s ‘you trying to show me you’re comfortable with my homosexuality‘. I get it. Now can we just be friends please?”
“I’m going to kill McGrath.”
“Whatever.” And with that Colin goes to bed (without Bradley).
~
Bradley had had enough of pussy footing around Colin and his darned red cheeks, chiselled jaw, bright blue eyes and beautiful voice. He was going to tell him, properly.
(No serenading this time.)
6.
Bradley bursts into Colin’s hotel room, places his hands either side of Colin’s face, and kisses him. (With tongues and everything.)
“Colin Morgan, I think I love you because every time I see you I get butterflies, and I just love your blue eyes and the way you make me laugh when you read your lines in different accents and the way that you--”
Colin starts to kiss Bradley. (Again with tongues.)
“Oh, and I’m gay.” Bradley finally says when they break apart.
Colin laughs. Bradley laughs. (And then they have sex.)
THE END.
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