Title: Understanding
Author: Jalabert
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Word count: 1367
Summary: Aiden and Carson clear the air...and reach an understanding.
Author's Note: This vignette is based on a scene from
Tabula Rasa, a novel-length story pairing Aiden Ford and Carson Beckett. If you've read that story this one will seem familiar, but I've used that scene and a good deal of its dialogue as a jumping off point for a story set during “Hide and Seek.” The fic prompt called for “Before I Sleep,” but “Hide and Seek” was a better fit. As for the other part of the prompt--“mussing up and flustering the "good boy"--I'll leave it to you to determine to which character that designation should apply.
"And that's what you think I was doing--negating your manhood by a careless choice of words? Do you really think I think of you as a child, Aiden?”