30 days of Oz. Day four: On a date
Apparently my idea of 30 days doesn’t include the weekends that are busy and blablabla my internet access sucks blablabla so this will be more 40 days of OTP than 30 days. Whatever. Anyway it wasn’t a 30 days of OTP (but 30 days of fandom) neither.
Prompt: On a date
Paring: Tim McManus/Sean Murphy
Murphy: What, you don't want me to be remorseful?
McManus: No! Yes! We're going to dinner tonight. You're paying.
Murphy: Okay.
It’s just a dinner, like any others that they have in their lives. In their friendship, to put it better. Funny, thinks Sean, because sometime is like if their lives and their friendship are the same thing. Sean has a life apart from Tim, and Tim surely had and has his life like all his conquests (including one ex wife and all Oz’s female staff) could confirm but it’s like they have always been there. Their friendship has always been there. Like a cup of coffee in the morning, like Saint Patrick day. Occasionally, you do not feel like celebrating, but you always know it's there. Their friendship, their bond is like Saint Patrick's Day and for an Irishman it’s a big deal. You can't forget Saint Patrick's day, it's a part of your culture, it's a part of who you are. He would not be Irish if he did not know Saint Patrick's day and would not be Sean Murphy if he hadn't Tim in his life. Their friendship, of course. Nothing more, nothing different. Friendship.
So now Sean shouldn’t feel nervous about a stupid dinner like any others. A beer, a burger or one of that awful Polish and Hungarian dishes that Tim always insists on trying and a friend with whom to make amends for all his mistakes. Except that something is different. Maybe are Tim’s words “ We’re going to dinner tonight. You’re paying.” like was something more, something more official, more romantic, something more. Maybe it’s the fact that the first thing is his mind when he realized the mistake he made with the “Morales’ incident” has been “Tim will never forgive me”, not “I will lose my job”. Maybe it’s the fact that in the last months he didn’t want to date, he didn’t want anyone in his life. Anyone except who is in his life already.
“We are going out tonight.” He repeated to himself for the tenth time in his mind. And the, for the first time, Sean choose to be brave and adds “It’s a date.”
Prompt: On a date
Paring: Tim McManus/Sean Murphy
Murphy: What, you don't want me to be remorseful?
McManus: No! Yes! We're going to dinner tonight. You're paying.
Murphy: Okay.
It’s just a dinner, like any others that they have in their lives. In their friendship, to put it better. Funny, thinks Sean, because sometime is like if their lives and their friendship are the same thing. Sean has a life apart from Tim, and Tim surely had and has his life like all his conquests (including one ex wife and all Oz’s female staff) could confirm but it’s like they have always been there. Their friendship has always been there. Like a cup of coffee in the morning, like Saint Patrick day. Occasionally, you do not feel like celebrating, but you always know it's there. Their friendship, their bond is like Saint Patrick's Day and for an Irishman it’s a big deal. You can't forget Saint Patrick's day, it's a part of your culture, it's a part of who you are. He would not be Irish if he did not know Saint Patrick's day and would not be Sean Murphy if he hadn't Tim in his life. Their friendship, of course. Nothing more, nothing different. Friendship.
So now Sean shouldn’t feel nervous about a stupid dinner like any others. A beer, a burger or one of that awful Polish and Hungarian dishes that Tim always insists on trying and a friend with whom to make amends for all his mistakes. Except that something is different. Maybe are Tim’s words “ We’re going to dinner tonight. You’re paying.” like was something more, something more official, more romantic, something more. Maybe it’s the fact that the first thing is his mind when he realized the mistake he made with the “Morales’ incident” has been “Tim will never forgive me”, not “I will lose my job”. Maybe it’s the fact that in the last months he didn’t want to date, he didn’t want anyone in his life. Anyone except who is in his life already.
“We are going out tonight.” He repeated to himself for the tenth time in his mind. And the, for the first time, Sean choose to be brave and adds “It’s a date.”