"Sleep" challenge
Title: Warmth
Author: fearciuil
Words: 100 (and it started at 223, so yay!)
Flavor: L&O:UK
Characters: James Steel and Alesha Phillips
Rating: suitable for all
A/N: Excerpted from the same longfic WIP as were this, this, and this. It's almost done, I promise.
‘Are you all right?’ Steel asked curiously, nearly an hour into their seven-and-a-half-hour flight.
‘I’m cold,’ Phillips replied shortly, huddling in her seat.
He blinked slowly. ‘I could be your hot-water bottle,’ he suggested finally, refusing to consider the implications.
‘Are you sure?’
‘I don’t mind if you don’t.’ Hesitantly, he raised the armrest between them. ‘Come here.’
Equally hesitantly, she settled against him, her head on his shoulder, and he draped his arm around her.
‘Better?’ he murmured.
‘Mm.’ She shifted a bit to get more comfortable. ‘Go to sleep, James.’
He smiled and did as he was told.
Author: fearciuil
Words: 100 (and it started at 223, so yay!)
Flavor: L&O:UK
Characters: James Steel and Alesha Phillips
Rating: suitable for all
A/N: Excerpted from the same longfic WIP as were this, this, and this. It's almost done, I promise.
‘Are you all right?’ Steel asked curiously, nearly an hour into their seven-and-a-half-hour flight.
‘I’m cold,’ Phillips replied shortly, huddling in her seat.
He blinked slowly. ‘I could be your hot-water bottle,’ he suggested finally, refusing to consider the implications.
‘Are you sure?’
‘I don’t mind if you don’t.’ Hesitantly, he raised the armrest between them. ‘Come here.’
Equally hesitantly, she settled against him, her head on his shoulder, and he draped his arm around her.
‘Better?’ he murmured.
‘Mm.’ She shifted a bit to get more comfortable. ‘Go to sleep, James.’
He smiled and did as he was told.