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Fandom: Fringe
Title: The Nature of Friendship
Rating: PG for very vague mentions of violence
Characters/Pairings: Charlie, Olivia gen
Summary: Olivia's going through a lot right now, and doesn't have time to be a great friend. Charlie gets it. Really.
Charlie is a good friend. The best, in fact. He’d do anything for the people he cares about - which, these days, mostly means Olivia.
For Olivia, his partner, his friend, Charlie would and does do anything. He humors her strange requests, and when she tells him not to ask, he doesn’t. He listens to what little she deigns to tell him about her work and her more… personal problems, and doesn’t pry no matter how much he knows she’s hiding. He doesn’t whine about how little time they spend together that doesn’t, in some way, revolve around her and the work that she does now, about how she’s ten times more addicted to her work than she was before (and that’s saying something). Above all, he trusts her, trusts that she knows what she’s doing, and never, ever calls her crazy, no matter how much he might want to sometimes.
He is there for her, because she needs him. He is there for her the way she has been there for him.
When it gets hard to keep being a good friend, Charlie remembers his own rough patches.
She’s saved his life, of course. That’s what partners do. He’s saved hers a bunch of times, too. What he remembers best, though, is the way she listened to him talk for hours and hours about his wife, after she was gone, and held him silently while he cried. He remembers how she let him stay with her until he got a new place, when he couldn’t stand to live in the house they’d called a home. He remembers her quiet sympathy and the single-minded determination with which she helped him find his wife’s killer, the way she pulled him back from the edge when the three of them were alone and there was a gun in his hands, talked him down and, when it looked like that wouldn’t work, stood between in the way.
She has never, ever judged him for what almost happened that day, and he loves her for it.
All in all, Olivia’s a pretty damn good friend too.
Title: The Nature of Friendship
Rating: PG for very vague mentions of violence
Characters/Pairings: Charlie, Olivia gen
Summary: Olivia's going through a lot right now, and doesn't have time to be a great friend. Charlie gets it. Really.
Charlie is a good friend. The best, in fact. He’d do anything for the people he cares about - which, these days, mostly means Olivia.
For Olivia, his partner, his friend, Charlie would and does do anything. He humors her strange requests, and when she tells him not to ask, he doesn’t. He listens to what little she deigns to tell him about her work and her more… personal problems, and doesn’t pry no matter how much he knows she’s hiding. He doesn’t whine about how little time they spend together that doesn’t, in some way, revolve around her and the work that she does now, about how she’s ten times more addicted to her work than she was before (and that’s saying something). Above all, he trusts her, trusts that she knows what she’s doing, and never, ever calls her crazy, no matter how much he might want to sometimes.
He is there for her, because she needs him. He is there for her the way she has been there for him.
When it gets hard to keep being a good friend, Charlie remembers his own rough patches.
She’s saved his life, of course. That’s what partners do. He’s saved hers a bunch of times, too. What he remembers best, though, is the way she listened to him talk for hours and hours about his wife, after she was gone, and held him silently while he cried. He remembers how she let him stay with her until he got a new place, when he couldn’t stand to live in the house they’d called a home. He remembers her quiet sympathy and the single-minded determination with which she helped him find his wife’s killer, the way she pulled him back from the edge when the three of them were alone and there was a gun in his hands, talked him down and, when it looked like that wouldn’t work, stood between in the way.
She has never, ever judged him for what almost happened that day, and he loves her for it.
All in all, Olivia’s a pretty damn good friend too.