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irish_sherlock

[RP] ...and I think I'm running out of gas...

Nov 07, 2006 21:21

It was the perfect night...Mike was offworld until the next day, they both had a day off, and he was still sporting a nice split lip and eyebrow from the fight he'd gotten into with Lieutenant Fraser a couple days before. Jim wasn't a jealous man, but the fact that Fraser had grabbed Addie's ass and it bothered her enough to tell Jim about it was ( Read more... )

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no_russianbride November 8 2006, 05:03:48 UTC

Fraser had been bordering on crass most the night, and the blatant pass he made at her just turned her stomach. She mentioned it to Jim and well being the guy that he was, he set Fraser straight. Addie had let her fingers trace over the scrape adorning his eyebrow, and she soothed the split lip with gentle kisses. Dinner, and the usual activities rounded out the night, and Addie fell asleep in Jim's arms with Mike talking in his sleep in the bed beside them when he finally returned from off-world ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 8 2006, 05:08:48 UTC

Jim's eyes shut as pain etched his features...Christ, he knew this had to be killing Mikey, and not just 'cause he was alone, but because he knew what was on the line here. He might even doubt Jim, and that he didn't begrudge his brother in the least...hell, Mike had been the one to get him the fuck out of that life ( ... )

no_russianbride November 8 2006, 05:23:26 UTC

She leaned into the contact, letting his hand press to her cheek for a moment before he started to speak. She tried to focus on his hands through her hair, the light touch and the hardness in his eyes. She wanted to actually understand what was going on, and it didn't seem to be something that was as simple as a misunderstanding ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 8 2006, 05:41:07 UTC

"Addie...people died 'cause of me." he admitted quietly. "And I mean that in a real direct kinda way. I...baby, you gotta know what I did, what I am. I need you to hear this, no matter how bad it hurts, 'cause it's killing me. But..."

Refusing to finish the thought, he held her gaze and pressed on, voice tense, quiet, and rapid. "I was leading them after a few years...even got mixed up with organized crime." He paused, hanging his head in shame as he shut his eyes tight. "Even right now, there's three or four unsolved cases LAPD Homicide still likes me for...but those four ain't any of the six I actually *did* kill. But Addie...Addie, baby, you gotta know that I got out. Years ago...little while 'fore I joined the military and shit. But that's why they like me for this, 'cause of...all of it. But that ain't me anymore, baby...you gotta believe me, Addie..."

no_russianbride November 8 2006, 06:00:18 UTC

It had taken all that was in her to keep her resolve, but she felt it etching away slowly as she felt like he was trying to pull away from her. She pulled her lower lip into her mouth trying to fight back, and be strong for him, but she couldn't help it. She was watching Jim fall apart in front of her, and up until that moment he had been the strength to her. Aedeline reached for him, her hand grazing lightly along his jaw, picking his chin up to meet her eyes tears barely pushing toward falling across her cheeks ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 8 2006, 06:18:28 UTC

Jim shut his eyes, leaning into her touch as everything she said hit home, sinking into his head and his heart...giving him just a little scrap of hope to cling to that maybe, just maybe she was serious.

Maybe he'd still get his chance to propose...even if he was teasing the hell out of her, and all of a sudden it was all he wanted. To keep her, just that long...to hold on long enough to say the words and see her smile...hear her laugh and say yes just to shut him up. It didn't even have to be real.

Opening his eyes again, he reached out to cradle her cheek in his palm, callused thumb straying to trace the line of her cheekbone as his eyes met hers, forehead resting between two of the bars.

"If you mean it...yeah. I do." he whispered, then snorted almost silently, lips softening with a trace of a smile. "You're too cute to lie." he added weakly.

no_russianbride November 8 2006, 06:35:23 UTC

Aedeline pressed her hand against his as he touched her cheek, her fingers slipping into his turning her head to the side just to kiss the inside of his fingers briefly. The teasing about her being too cute to lie, stung her a bit, because she knew she wasn't exactly lying except by omission, but there had been enough truth on the table today. She didn't deny his statement instead she just pressed her mouth to the inside of his hand lightly.

The smile that caught her eye stirred a small flit of laughter from her, smiling up to him, "I mean it, every word. I love you Jim Riley, and all of this doesn't change anything that I feel."

Applying one more kiss to the palm of his hand she clung to his grip as she stood on tip toes placing a kiss to his forehead as it pressed to the bars, "You had me scared you know."

irish_sherlock November 8 2006, 17:52:12 UTC

"I'm sorry." he whispered in apology, letting his hand drift up to run through her hair. "I'm sorry for all of it...not telling you sooner, for this, for this morning..."

He trailed off, shutting his eyes and drawing a shaky sigh, lightly thudding his forehead against the bars a couple times in frustration. "I put my blood into leaving this shit behind." he murmured. "I put my *blood* into it, and the one place I thought it was gone forever, it comes back to bite me in the ass. I just...I wasn't thinking, Dimples. I'm sorry for scaring you, I mean it."

no_russianbride November 8 2006, 19:38:13 UTC

Aedeline winced a bit as he thunked his head into the bars. Leaning into his touch once more she closed her eyes letting her own breathing finally become more steady and even. She didn't mean to make him apologize so much, because she couldn't really think that there was any other way for this. Aside from the MP escort and the bars between them, Addie knew that somethings in life weren't meant to be easy. Jim telling her this, even if he had planned to tell her, it wasn't supposed to be easy. She knew better than he thought she did, because she knew when it came time for her to come clean... that it would be just as hard for her.

"It's fine, shhh..." she whispered softly to him, her eyes looking to him trying to make him look at her again. "It's out there now, and I'm still here... this isn't your fault Jim. I know you didn't mean to scare me. Things happen. This will blow over, you didn't kill Fraser. They'll do their investigation, interviews... and they'll know it wasn't you."

***"First Lieutenant Aedeline Sorokin, you've been ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 8 2006, 20:05:24 UTC

Jim let his eyes stay shut as he listened to her talk, rolling the sound of her voice around in his head...then opened them as she finished, hating the tick in her jaw and the flicker of her eyes that were all blatant indicators of things he already knew ( ... )

no_russianbride November 8 2006, 20:36:27 UTC

His words caught in her head and in that instant her eyes flashed to his with a moment of disbelief over what she actually heard. There was a small step she wanted to take, to back away slowly from all of it. Instead she just looked at him, and felt his hand brush to her cheek, stuck in that moment that she didn't want to expose, not even to herself ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 8 2006, 20:48:32 UTC

"If you never find 'em, you never gotta say...that's fine with me." he replied without hesitating, wishing he could take away the raw agony he watched dance over her features.

Hoping to take it away...to make her believe he was being serious, that everything would be all right because she knew his worst and was still here, Jim smiled and took both her hands in his.

"Because soon as I'm outta here," he drawled, "I'm gonna make you marry me. That's right...hold you hostage at Wraith stunner-point, hop a Jumper to Vegas...even get us an Elvis impersonator as the preacher. But? Because I'm such a gentleman, you can pick where we honeymoon...just make sure it's got lots of nude beaches so I can drag you to 'em."

no_russianbride November 8 2006, 21:00:19 UTC

Addie stood there letting everything thaw over her for the time being, she had every intention of telling him at some point, but then seeing how hard it was for him to tell her about his past she knew she couldn't keep it a secret forever, and that sooner was better... but then he mentioned it. That he knew part of it, just that small part of it sent a bit of panic through her, because it meant it was real... and that at some point he would need to know ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 10 2006, 07:42:59 UTC

Her smile was worth every second of the entire goddamn mess...lit up his cell, the room, and everything else on the whole planet. It was all he needed to be free of any prison in every way that mattered, which was why the guard, naturally, *had* to come around and try to take Addie away from him again.

Wrapping his arms around her shoulders through the bars of the cell, Jim narrowed his eyes at the guard over Addie's shoulder. "We got a problem with corruption here on base? 'Cause if not, I can make one. Fifty bucks for five more minutes, a hundred for ten...stop me when I hit a number you like. Or...y'know...you could do me a solid and I'll owe ya. I can get any-damn-thing around here, y'know...

no_russianbride November 10 2006, 08:03:14 UTC

Jim trying to bribe the guards for more time for her to stay at his side, was amusing, heartfelt and just a bit silly... but it also could make his mess a bit more complicated. His arm laced awkwardly through the bars around her shoulders and she shook her head lightly, "No... I mean I'd stay as long as they'd let me... but don't make trouble for yourself Jim. This will clear up, and then you'll end up with bribing an officer... or smuggling goods on base, and right now this is all I can handle at a time ( ... )

irish_sherlock November 10 2006, 17:17:01 UTC

It was like magnets the moment the door opened...striding over to meet her halfway, he caught her by the shoulders and hauled her against him, shifting his hands from her shoulders to wrap his arms around her as tight as he could, burying his face against her hair. He just clung to her for a moment as she clung to him, shifting after a second to stoop and hide his face against her neck, pressing a couple of fierce kisses to her skin ( ... )

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