In Dreams & What Friends are For ; Richard/Nicci
Title: In Dreams
Pairing: Richard/Nicci (one sided)
Prompt: Dreams
Rating: PG-13
Authors Note: The shortest thing you will ever read from me.
She dreams of him, mostly. It’s all she can do.
Richard is nothing but a reminder of what she can never have, of what she will never deserve.
But, though she knows he is unattainable, she allows herself to dream of him.
Nicci longs for the night when her eyes would close, when sleep would overcome her. Richard is there with her then, in her bed, in her.
He’s shielding her from the world, showing her the way a man is meant to love a woman, giving her pleasures beyond what she had ever imagined.
In dreams, she is not only his, but he is undoubtedly hers.
- x -
Title: What Friends are For
Pairing: Richard/Nicci
Prompt: Friendship
Rating: PG-13
“You looked cold,” Richard explained as he placed the blanket over her shoulders.
Nicci blinks up at him at her place in front of the fire. “Thank you,”
“Why are you sitting on the floor? There’s an awful draft in here.” Richard chides, but like the true friend he is, he doesn’t make her move. Instead, he lifts the end of the blanket he’d given her, and scoots in beside her. She knows he’s only doing so to provide more body heat and so she doesn’t allow herself to think it’s for other reasons, too.
“We’re friends, aren’t we?” The question startles her, and she shoots him a look to say he shouldn’t be doubting that fact. Richard laughs, drawing the corner of the blanket tighter. It only brings her closer. “Then why are you sitting in here, all alone, on a cold floor? We think of you as our friend, Nicci. A friend who has saved us more times than we’d like to admit. Thanks to you, we’re all alive today.” He points out.
Nicci smiles at that, touched by his words.
Friend.
She’s never had a friend like Richard.
“And so you come in here, to join me on this cold floor?” Her brow arches playfully.
Richard grins. “That’s what friends are for.”
Pairing: Richard/Nicci (one sided)
Prompt: Dreams
Rating: PG-13
Authors Note: The shortest thing you will ever read from me.
She dreams of him, mostly. It’s all she can do.
Richard is nothing but a reminder of what she can never have, of what she will never deserve.
But, though she knows he is unattainable, she allows herself to dream of him.
Nicci longs for the night when her eyes would close, when sleep would overcome her. Richard is there with her then, in her bed, in her.
He’s shielding her from the world, showing her the way a man is meant to love a woman, giving her pleasures beyond what she had ever imagined.
In dreams, she is not only his, but he is undoubtedly hers.
- x -
Title: What Friends are For
Pairing: Richard/Nicci
Prompt: Friendship
Rating: PG-13
“You looked cold,” Richard explained as he placed the blanket over her shoulders.
Nicci blinks up at him at her place in front of the fire. “Thank you,”
“Why are you sitting on the floor? There’s an awful draft in here.” Richard chides, but like the true friend he is, he doesn’t make her move. Instead, he lifts the end of the blanket he’d given her, and scoots in beside her. She knows he’s only doing so to provide more body heat and so she doesn’t allow herself to think it’s for other reasons, too.
“We’re friends, aren’t we?” The question startles her, and she shoots him a look to say he shouldn’t be doubting that fact. Richard laughs, drawing the corner of the blanket tighter. It only brings her closer. “Then why are you sitting in here, all alone, on a cold floor? We think of you as our friend, Nicci. A friend who has saved us more times than we’d like to admit. Thanks to you, we’re all alive today.” He points out.
Nicci smiles at that, touched by his words.
Friend.
She’s never had a friend like Richard.
“And so you come in here, to join me on this cold floor?” Her brow arches playfully.
Richard grins. “That’s what friends are for.”