V Fic: Expendable (Dale/Erica)
Title: Expendable
Pairing: Dale/Erica
Rating: PG-13
Words: 452
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: Major spoilers for 1x01.
A/N: This is all mollivanders fault for encouraging my wacky shipping notions. Given that this was written in roughly fifteen minutes and after one whole episode of show...it’s definitely not my masterwork. But if you like crack, it’s got that in spades. ;)
“And the woman, Erica, have you made any progress with her?”
Dale was careful to keep his face expressionless. Anna had a way of reading him, of reading all of them, and he didn’t want her to get too close to the truth.
“Some. She trusts me… I’m her go-to guy. I fixed her sink last week. Mr. Dependable. That’s something, right?”
The pipe burst soaking his shirt right down to his human skin, she gave him one of her son’s shirts to change into, there was something stupid printed on the front, and she had laughed, brushed a strand of blonde hair out of her eyes…
Dale blinked to focus himself and turned his attention back to Anna. She was watching him carefully, her face neutral and gentle…she knew.
“Do not get attached to your assignment. You must understand that every one of them is expendable. When the time comes for you to kill her you can not hesitate. You know what will happen if you disobey me?”
“That looks good on you, very…hip,” Erica teased.
“You picked the most embarrassing shirt you could find, didn’t you?”
She nodded, a mischievous glint in her eyes. “It was between this one and the one with the half-naked lady he bought to piss me off. I’m sorry…here I’ll get another one.”
He caught her wrist, it was warm, and he could feel her pulse steady under his fingers. He held on for too long and she smiled. Something inside of him was begging for it…
“Yes. I understand.”
He tugged her to him, kissed her hesitantly as this human man would, and she kissed him back, her mouth tangy from her beer, and then somehow she was in his lap, pressed against him and he could hear her heart beating.
She pulled away breathing heavily and he wrapped his arms around her back to keep her still.
“You can’t tell anyone about this.”
She was so serious, almost stern and if her fingers hadn’t been rubbing softly against the back of his neck he would have thought she wanted him to stop.
“These lips…completely sealed.”
She rolled her eyes at him and he laughed as he pulled her towards him again.
“You can go now. It won’t be much longer; we’ll be on Earth in two days time. Remember what I said. They are all expendable.”
He watched her sleeping afterwards. She was so vulnerable, he could have snapped her neck and been done with it, but he couldn’t. He slipped an arm around her waist and felt the sudden warmth as she snuggled closer to him.
“All of them,” he echoed as Anna’s image flickered and disappeared from his living room.