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When he goes back up to the apartment the two officers are standing in the kitchen, talking quietly, looking through manila folders, pulling out forms. David makes his way down the small hallway, to Leo’s open door.
“Hey,” he says, letting himself in. He sits down next to Leo. “Everything alright?”
“I have to change my name and everything.” Leo mumbles. He suddenly sits up, pushes his hand down the pocket of his jeans. He pulls out a silver rosary, the one he was holding in his hand at the hospital when they first met. “Can you make sure Kun has this with him, when they bury him or whatever they do. He gave it to me when I turned fifteen, but he should have it back now, I think he might need it more than me.”
David takes the bracelet without a word, is going to get up and leave the room when Leo starts talking again.
“I used to be a really nice person before all this. I’m sorry that I’ve been kind of a dick. It’s just that last month I had a shitty apartment and a shitty job but a really great friend. Now I don’t have any of that, I guess it’s kind of affected my personality.” Leo says, scratching the side of his head. David thinks this might be some kind of heart-to-heart, he’s never been involved in something like that before, it’s not really his thing.
“This isn’t in my job description,” David replies, waving his hand around the room. “I don’t like this kind of work, I like being out on my own, where the action is. It’s satisfying.”
“You did kill that man when we went for a run,” Leo responds, like he’s trying to find a way in which their month together was at all exciting. “And that file extraction, I kind of assumed you killed that person too.”
David had forgotten all about Kaka, about taking Leo out in his car in the middle of the night. He smiles, remembering Leo passed out against the window, how much younger he looked when sleeping. “No, I didn’t kill him, just threatened to.”
David suddenly, without much thought, unclips his watch from his wrist, turns it over in his hands a few times. “This watch doesn’t blow things up, but look,” he pulls the small pin out from the side of the clock face. He watches as Leo bends down close, noticing that the pin was covered in a filmy glaze. “It’s soaked in a poison. Push this pin into the skin of any one after you, and they’ll be dead in ten seconds.”
“Well fuck,” Leo says. He looks up at David, smiles brightly. “I guess this does make you a proper spy.”
“Take it,” David says, and it’s like his mouth his speaking without letting his brain know, because he’s not like this and he doesn’t even really like Leo. He doesn’t stop himself wrapping is around Leo’s wrist, clipping it in place. “Don’t break it; this is a one of a kind.”
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“The whole point of witness protection is that no one knows who or where you are.” David laughs, thinks this is maybe the first time they’ve bonded, even after all the time they’ve spent together.
“You don’t want to kill me. If you’re as good at your job as you think you are, you’ll find away. I don’t mind being on my own, I’m used to that, but I don’t want to start a new life completely alienated from everything.”
David thinks about it. He thinks about how many rules he’ll be breaking, how much trouble he’ll cause when people find out (they always find out) he’s breached protocol. But then he sees Leo, who he kind of disliked until thirty minutes ago, and who he’s starting to worry that’ll he’ll start to miss.
“Maybe,” he says slowly, but Leo bursts into a smile and he can’t help but return it. “I’ll see what I can do.”
“Maybe then I might testify. Maybe.” Leo shrugs as he stands. “If you come see me.”
“You’re bartering with me, over this? Do you know what happens to people who try to blackmail spies?” David says, but he can’t help but laugh, lets Leo know he’s joking. Part of him wishes he’d let this happen sooner, back around the time when Leo touched his chest after he’d assassinated the man in the park.
Leo shrugs, and he looks almost happy. David doesn’t think he’s ever been the person to be described as chirpy, but there’s a look in his face that David hasn’t seen the entire time they’ve been stuck together. “I know you’ll say yes so it doesn’t matter.”
David squeezes Leo’s shoulder, opens his mouth to speak, when his PDA starts vibrating violently in his pocket. He sneaks his hand around it, flicks open the screen and smiles, feels relief flood through him for
There’s a short message of gratitude towards him on completing this mission, and then an email attachment. It tells him nothing more than that he is to be at the Madrid airport by the end of the day. He will be briefed there and then on the next part in his mission.
“Leo, I have to go.” David says, but he smiles briefly towards Leo, who raises an eyebrow and gives a lazy nod of the head. David thinks he should say more, offer some kind of pleasantry or affectionate hug. But that’s not who he’s ever been, it wouldn’t feel right. Instead he pats the side of Leo’s face gently, where the bruises are now nothing more than grey shadows.
“Good luck!” he hears Leo says as he bolts to the door, and he turns around one final time. “And I best fucking see you soon.”
“Once I see your name on the witness list to this case, I’ll be back.” David says, and then he’s gone. One life saved; time to move on.
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I love you, Messilla prompters and authors!
Not the OP Anon, but I just wanted to give this fill some love! It's so amazing, bittersweet!
I love David trying hard to not get attached to Leo, but c'mon, it's Leo. He just can't NOT get attached in some way. I also liked that nothing actually happened between them, and you don't really know if it will, and the end is left opened. I love this kind of ~left in the air~ thing.
Great fill!
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thank you for reading!
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DEAR LORD, THIS IS PERFECT!!! Like, I was watching Chuck and thinking EEE! Spies and sillyness! when I requested this but you actually wrote something amazing and wonderful and it gave me a lot of feelings. Leo, I want to hug him so bad and David was fucking perfect, you actually wrote his the way I imagine he'd be but A MILLION TIMES BETTER. And the ending, THE ENDING ♥♥♥♥♥ I don't know what to say except THANK YOU!! for filling my prompt and giving us this little gem, thank you so much! :D
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(also, I had no idea Chuck was about spies, think I'll have to check it out)
thank you!
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(omg, you should definitely watch Chuck, it's so much fun!!)
Thanks to you! :D
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And sexy sequel? YES! OH GOD YES!
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Thanks again! :D
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