Fic - A Work In Progress: Step 3. The Roommate Gets Out & Finds Out
Series: A Work In Progress. Or: How Reese Learned To Stop Worrying and Move in With Crews.
Title: Step 3: The Roommate Gets Out & Finds Out. Or: Ted & Charlie have a moment so Crews & Reese have a moment.
Rating: R
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff
Characters & Pairings: Crews/Reese, Ted
Summary: This is where future fic begins. It does exactly what it says on the tin. This story will chart the move from partners to living together for Crews & Reese.
Notes: Unbetaed as always, sorry. The A Work In Progress part of the title comes from the crews_reese community. So excuse the blatant ripping off. Also thank you to grimorie for the idea of using cameras at Crews’.
A Work In Progress. Or: How Reese Learned To Stop Worrying and Move in With Crews.
Step 3. The Roommate Gets Out & Finds Out. Or: Ted & Charlie have a moment so Crews & Reese have a moment.
He manages to get Ted out finally. It's been three months and Charlie feels guilty for allowing Ted to get involved in this conspiracy, he tries to fob him off to Mexico like he had with Rachel, but Ted just raised an eyebrow and said: "Parole, Charlie, parole." Charlie is angry at the system for the whole ride from Pelican Bay to the house, and when Ted comes in and sees the cameras he says: "I thought we didn't like security?" Charlie's anger returns to it's simmering place under all the Zen and silliness as he shows Ted the new system that makes him feel a little bit like a god. Dani keeps asking him how that fits in with Zen.
The first night Ted is home is the first night in a month Charlie would be sleeping alone; he thinks he doesn't like the idea. Reese had ordered him to have a good welcome home for Ted though, which had been unusually open for her. Unfortunately a good welcome home from jail party meant no cops other than himself, which meant it was just Ted and Charlie who sat down to the large spread of take-out Charlie had ordered.
"So what’s happened while I've been gone?" Ted finally asks halfway through his curry.
"You mean other than being shot?"
"Yes, Charlie, other than being shot."
"I sent Rachel away."
"I noticed."
"I shot my father."
"You shot your father?" Ted raised his gaze and an eyebrow to his roommate.
The redhead shrugged before saying: "He broke in, in the middle of the night. I had Rachel here. I reacted."
"Was he killed?"
"No."
Ted paused for reacting, unsure of his own feelings on the topic. "Oh.."
"You sound disappointed."
Ted shrugs.
"You really love her.
Ted nods.
Charlie paused as he munched on his lo mein. "I'm sleeping with Reese."
Ted looked at Charlie alarmed. "Dani Reese?"
Charlie nodded as his chopsticks reentered the mass of noodles and chicken.
"The daughter of Jack Reese who sent you to jail, Dani Reese?"
Charlie nodded again as he chewed.
Ted waited. "And sleeping as in..." Ted made some non-specific hand motions that made Charlie wonder how old Ted was before he nodded again. "But she's scary." Ted finally said.
Charlie let out a short chuckle at his roommates not entirely ungrounded fear. "Yeah well, she likes me."
Ted shook his head in disbelief. "So anything else?"
Charlie pondered about what else had passed in the past few months before responding: "We've got a new president."
Ted rolled his eyes and continued eating.
***
"You know Reese..."
She hummed in response turning her head over to look at him as they languished in the easy after glow.
"Ted's scared of you."
Dani's eyebrows scrunched together and she pulled a pillow more firmly under her head in an attempt to get her brain working properly again. "Sorry?"
"He said he was scared of you."
"...I'm a cop?" Dani finally said as an explanation.
"So am I."
Dani's turned her body over so she was facing him completely. "How did I even come up in topic of conversation?"
The small grin that had bloomed over the memory disappeared as Charlie frowned a little. "He asked me what happened while he was inside?"
"And you told him about- about this?"
"Yes."
Dani turned over back onto her back. The two cops stared up at the white ceiling. She knew she needed to do something, but she didn't really know what to do. She was serious when she said she wasn't good at this. Dani was taken off guard by the fact that she didn't really feel any pressure from him. She just feels his presence there, next to her, but not smothering her, not even touching her. It's comforting. "I think," She finally says, "I think that's okay."
She turns her head over to look at him again and finds his pale blue eyes staring straight back at her. "Okay." He murmurs. He turns away and turns off the light, he says into the darkness knowing she'll be there: "Goodnight Reese."
She refuses to smile in return and instead says to the form she can barely see up here above the ambient light of the city: "Night Crews."
Title: Step 3: The Roommate Gets Out & Finds Out. Or: Ted & Charlie have a moment so Crews & Reese have a moment.
Rating: R
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff
Characters & Pairings: Crews/Reese, Ted
Summary: This is where future fic begins. It does exactly what it says on the tin. This story will chart the move from partners to living together for Crews & Reese.
Notes: Unbetaed as always, sorry. The A Work In Progress part of the title comes from the crews_reese community. So excuse the blatant ripping off. Also thank you to grimorie for the idea of using cameras at Crews’.
A Work In Progress. Or: How Reese Learned To Stop Worrying and Move in With Crews.
Step 3. The Roommate Gets Out & Finds Out. Or: Ted & Charlie have a moment so Crews & Reese have a moment.
He manages to get Ted out finally. It's been three months and Charlie feels guilty for allowing Ted to get involved in this conspiracy, he tries to fob him off to Mexico like he had with Rachel, but Ted just raised an eyebrow and said: "Parole, Charlie, parole." Charlie is angry at the system for the whole ride from Pelican Bay to the house, and when Ted comes in and sees the cameras he says: "I thought we didn't like security?" Charlie's anger returns to it's simmering place under all the Zen and silliness as he shows Ted the new system that makes him feel a little bit like a god. Dani keeps asking him how that fits in with Zen.
The first night Ted is home is the first night in a month Charlie would be sleeping alone; he thinks he doesn't like the idea. Reese had ordered him to have a good welcome home for Ted though, which had been unusually open for her. Unfortunately a good welcome home from jail party meant no cops other than himself, which meant it was just Ted and Charlie who sat down to the large spread of take-out Charlie had ordered.
"So what’s happened while I've been gone?" Ted finally asks halfway through his curry.
"You mean other than being shot?"
"Yes, Charlie, other than being shot."
"I sent Rachel away."
"I noticed."
"I shot my father."
"You shot your father?" Ted raised his gaze and an eyebrow to his roommate.
The redhead shrugged before saying: "He broke in, in the middle of the night. I had Rachel here. I reacted."
"Was he killed?"
"No."
Ted paused for reacting, unsure of his own feelings on the topic. "Oh.."
"You sound disappointed."
Ted shrugs.
"You really love her.
Ted nods.
Charlie paused as he munched on his lo mein. "I'm sleeping with Reese."
Ted looked at Charlie alarmed. "Dani Reese?"
Charlie nodded as his chopsticks reentered the mass of noodles and chicken.
"The daughter of Jack Reese who sent you to jail, Dani Reese?"
Charlie nodded again as he chewed.
Ted waited. "And sleeping as in..." Ted made some non-specific hand motions that made Charlie wonder how old Ted was before he nodded again. "But she's scary." Ted finally said.
Charlie let out a short chuckle at his roommates not entirely ungrounded fear. "Yeah well, she likes me."
Ted shook his head in disbelief. "So anything else?"
Charlie pondered about what else had passed in the past few months before responding: "We've got a new president."
Ted rolled his eyes and continued eating.
***
"You know Reese..."
She hummed in response turning her head over to look at him as they languished in the easy after glow.
"Ted's scared of you."
Dani's eyebrows scrunched together and she pulled a pillow more firmly under her head in an attempt to get her brain working properly again. "Sorry?"
"He said he was scared of you."
"...I'm a cop?" Dani finally said as an explanation.
"So am I."
Dani's turned her body over so she was facing him completely. "How did I even come up in topic of conversation?"
The small grin that had bloomed over the memory disappeared as Charlie frowned a little. "He asked me what happened while he was inside?"
"And you told him about- about this?"
"Yes."
Dani turned over back onto her back. The two cops stared up at the white ceiling. She knew she needed to do something, but she didn't really know what to do. She was serious when she said she wasn't good at this. Dani was taken off guard by the fact that she didn't really feel any pressure from him. She just feels his presence there, next to her, but not smothering her, not even touching her. It's comforting. "I think," She finally says, "I think that's okay."
She turns her head over to look at him again and finds his pale blue eyes staring straight back at her. "Okay." He murmurs. He turns away and turns off the light, he says into the darkness knowing she'll be there: "Goodnight Reese."
She refuses to smile in return and instead says to the form she can barely see up here above the ambient light of the city: "Night Crews."