Kink Me! #17
Kink Me! #17
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The first kiss (finally) happens under the Mistletoe at the Holiday party. The Mistletoe itself is so haphazardly arranged, and obvious, really. Everyone knows that only Colin and Bradley ever head over to the alcove with the telly, and it's usually to beat the shit out of each other on the X-box.
So when they stumble drunkenly into the corner, Bradley explaining the penalty save in a very famous FA Cup match in 1988 that he can't even believe Colin's never heard of, and Colin desperately wishing for a way to shut him up, because God, no one even notices. When he spies the mistletoe taped to the swaying light fixture, Colin thanks a higher power, thinks of none of the possible ramifications of his next move, and promptly snogs Bradley for all he's worth.
To Bradley's credit, he doesn't miss a beat: simply grabs Colin's shoulders like they've been doing this for years and presses him (hard) against the patched wall.
It's either a testament to the obvious and very palpable tension between the two of them that no one in the cast or crew notices at first or otherwise they're all as far gone as Bradley and Colin. (It was some rather strong punch that Katie mixed up.)
Except Antony finally spies the two tangled against the wall, knocks Richard's elbow with his, and jerks his head in their direction.
"About bloody time," Richard says.
"No kidding."
And that, as they say, was that. The moment of Colin and Bradley's great reveal. Except barely anyone could remember much about it later - just that it had happened and no one had thought to remind the pair that the wall hadn't been fully repaired since the Naked Flaming Penguin accident a few weeks earlier, so when Colin and Bradley fell through the wall in the midst of a particularly enthusiastic kiss -- Bradley found he rather liked Colin's penchant for tongue sucking -- there was a moment of stunned silence, a few snickers, and then quite a lot of blame shifting going around.
Later, Angel and Katie would laugh over the fact that it was the act of breaking down the wall that caught everyone's attention and not the sight of Colin and Bradley finally snogging their brains out.
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(Looking good, btw!)
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Teenagers are notorious for public displays of affection, and everyone knows that neither Bradley nor Colin has matured past the age of, say... nineteen, despite what their birth certificates might claim. So people aren't all that surprised by what comes, generally.
Everyone on the crew becomes quite used to pulling open doors and finding Colin and Bradley hidden behind with swollen mouths and hands in embarrassing places. Some of the lighting guys have even turned it into a Bradley and Colin version of pin the tail on the donkey. They convinced a couple of people from the art department to draw caricatures of both Colin and Bradley (with certain features overemphasized) and keep them in a folder next to one of camera accessory bags.
Anytime someone happens to catch them snogging, they add a stickie note to the area of the sketch's anatomy from which one or the other hastily removed his hand. No one knows what they're actually going to do with the drawings, though Rupert's suggested they'd make a fine fund-raising opportunity.
So far Bradley's anatomy is well covered (which surprises no one, actually. They've all laid claim at one point or another to various parts of Bradley's anatomy -- and they've seen damn near every bit of him during filming and when the lad has had a fair bit to drink), but Colin's got a distinct concentration of hot pink post-its blanketing his arse. There's talk of buying Colin a pink skirt and dropping it off anonymously in his trailer with the suggestion that a certain footie enthusiast might find it overwhelmingly alluring. Katie almost single-handedly encourages this endeavor.
When it ends up being a scarf instead, its far less dramatic than they would have hoped. Colin never even mentions it. But when Bradley shows up the next day with some uncomfortable rope burn around his wrists and lecherous glances toward Colin (or more appropriately: more lecherous than usual), most of the crew decides it might be best if they let the two of them get up to it with a little less of their involvement, after all.
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I love this so far, author-anon! It's so sweet and adorable. The idea of the crew making it into a game amuses me so much and I love that Colin's are all in the same general area. Also, the mention of the scarf and rope burn made me squee a bit. Alright, a lot. Thank you so much!
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No one's keeping things a secret, per se, but there's sort of this unspoken pact to keep it under wraps. Well, if under wraps means that approximately two hundred and forty-seven people already know, joke about, plot arbitrary ways to keep Bradley and Colin apart just to see what happens, and place bets on who will be the first to end up in the wrong costume because he just grabbed the nearest cast-away top and threw it on.
The last one was Bradley, of course. Merlin's tunics are far too small for him and Bradley was three sentences into complaining about the fit before he realised what happened, shut his mouth mid-sentence, and turned a rather lovely shade of crimson.
So, an unspoken pact to keep things under wraps amongst the cast and crew (and their families and significant others and a few friends). That's only -- what? -- 300 people out of six and a half billion? A drop in the bucket, really. Of course, out of those six and a half billion, there are something like 12 million or so that watch Merlin. Out of those 12 million, possibly only 4 million even recognize either of their names, and out of that four million, probably less than a million even give a shit about them. And out of those that give a shit, probably...
This actually goes on like this for quite a long while one night in a pub in Cardiff where Ian from props explains all this to some of the other guys and a bemused Anthony, who helpfully acquires extra serviettes so they can figure out all of the appropriate maths.
What it comes down to, after a long, long bit of figuring (and a little help from the bartender's calculator when it becomes clear that Ian is a bit too far gone for division), then a fair bit of estimation, a few bloody hells, and then an outright abandonment of rational maths, is that out of six and a half billion people in the world, only seven thousand six hundred and ninety-three people would even care that Bradley and Colin were fucking (or at least snogging), so they're all keeping this secret for a percentage of the world so low that it's practically unfigurable... and is it really worth it?
It's entirely possible that Ian is talking all about this because neither Colin nor Bradley are exactly doing a bang up job of keeping it quiet for themselves.
Mobile phones of the cast and crew rang continuously with calls and texts after Colin's interview with Cornith Davies that came not long after they'd started filming again. When Davies asked Colin just how close were he and Bradley really Colin choked on his water so badly that they had to go to commercial.
Katie had been on set for the interview and caught the whole thing on her phone. When anyone asks if she's an accomplice to it ending up on YouTube she vehemently denies it.
A few weeks later, both Colin and Bradley taped an interview with Miranda Regal for Wake up, UK! that would air later. She'd asked them various predictable questions: did you ever expect the reception you've received? Do you find it hard to get into character? Will Merlin's magic ever be revealed? Does everyone get along on set?
For this, Bradley had launched into a long, clever story about some mischief he and Colin had got up to, and the whole crew were completely charmed by his story (naturally) and then when Regal went on to ask if their friendship is one that would go beyond the series, Bradley grinned widely at her and announced in his boomy, self-important voice that theirs was "a romance that would last the ages."
Colin had to nudge him about a thousand times before it dawned on Bradley what he had actually just said. He blushed and quickly amended it to "bromance" but Regal and her crew smiled indulgently at him and sent the make-up girl out to dust his nose again with powder.
They're all pretty sure that Bradley James is full of shit most of the time anyway, so they've probably squeaked that one by under the radar.
Thankfully that one never made it onto YouTube.
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The cast and crew reactions are hilarious. The fact that they're actually doing maths amuses me far too much. Also, it would definitely be Bradley that ends up in Colin's tunic. The visual for that is priceless.
Thanks so much for this lovely, lovely story, anon! I'll eagerly await your next post.
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You're so welcome! [and the next part may be a couple of days -- busyness coming up -- but I'll write whenever I can.]
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