have you heard a word I said?
Author: Nathalia
Rating: PG
Challenge: Quince #29 - have you heard a word I said?
Extras / Toppings: caramel, malt (Easter Egg: Ichthus: The only place Success comes before Work is in the dictionary), sprinkles
Word Count: 1,014
Story: Misfits
Summary: Kennedy has a plan. Leo disapproves.
Notes: Amnesty Week: reach for the stars. I’m not really sure where this is going and what happened before it. This is probably towards the end of Kennedy’s story. There may be a few tense glitches. This is written during writer’s block, so forgive uninspired writing.
“Don’t do it,” Leo pleads for what must be the millionth time but she ignores him, focusing on her image in the mirror as she practices her lines in her head. What worried him most was the fact that she wasn’t even talking, defending her decision. Not because she didn’t know how to but because she didn’t think there was any reason to defend it. She thought she was doing the only right thing.
“We can find another way out of this, Ken, there is no point to betraying your principles,” Leo continues and it was then that Kennedy finally looks up and turns her head so that he can see her. She looks so determined that he knows he might just give up but he can’t. She is doing this for him, after all.
“Will my principles ever get me anywhere aside from sticky situations where I have to get over them if I want to get the job done. Principles just get in the way. We’ve talked about it. This is the only way to do it.”
“I bet we could think of something else if we really wanted to,” Leo insists, coming to stand behind her, making her whirl about immediately when he sets a hand down on the vanity on either side of her, trapping her.
“This is the only way and you know it.”
She has her father’s eyes. Well, usually Leo thinks of it the other way round because he met her before he met her family: Kennedy’s father has her eyes. He never really thinks about it but right now, it makes the hairs on his back stand on end. How can someone who looks so much like her parents do something like this, reject them as if they are acquaintances she has grown apart from?
“Eventually, they will understand. I will make up for it but right now, I need to do it and they would have done exactly the same thing if they needed to.” She looks as determined as she always does which bothers Leo. Why can’t she ever doubt herself once she’s made a decision?
Leo shakes his head. “They would never have trusted a double agent. Can’t you see how they used to look at Billy suspiciously when you were dating him? They couldn’t stand the idea that he was a handler and now you want to …”
“They already hate me, Leo,” Kennedy reminds him. “And they won’t understand why I’m doing any of what I do. As much as they the cause, as much as they are regarded as heroes from the past, it’s fucking hard for them to accept that their daughter decided to work at Nachzehrer, not Cerberus.”
Leo opens his mouth to protest but she raises her hand to stop him. “I know you think they are the greatest heroes of their generation and I’d probably agree with you but that doesn’t mean that they are always right. They have been out of the business forever and we can’t keep doing it the old way forever. We need to change things. They were always fighting with the higher-ups, Leo. You can’t keep doing everything like it’s been done before if you want a new outcome.”
She throws her long blond brain back over her shoulder and bullies her way out of Leo’s embrace, looking at him sourly but he thinks he can see something else in it, a pleading for him to understand that she would do things differently if she could. She has always been good at this, has always had instincts her parents would have been proud of. Hell, at one time, Kennedy had led a rescue mission with a team of people over sixty and from what Leo had seen, they had all been alcoholics. Leo had admittedly doubted her and been amazed when the mission had been a full success.
This time, however, he just doesn’t believe in her plan. He has gone as far as to call Regan and try to talk her into convincing Kennedy of changing her mind. It didn’t work because Regan is still screening his calls and doesn’t ever pick up. Break-ups complicate life to a degree that baffles him.
“If you don’t want to, you can stay out of this, Leo. I can do this by myself and I’ll take full responsibility.”
She isn’t lying. She always takes responsibility for everything she deems worth the trouble, has done so since the first day of their basic training. It has been one of the many reasons she’s always stood out and Leo knows it won’t ever change. That’s something he’s seen in her parents, too. He hates that they are nothing like real people, that they are so cool-headed and relaxed and are always ready to put their heads on the line for causes they believe in. Usually, Leo doesn’t really notice it but at times like these, there is no way around it.
“Listen, Lee,” she says, turning around to him, her hands on her hips and that resolute look on her face that he loves and hates. Regan had it sometimes but not often enough, this look where he knows that no matter what he does, she won’t back down from whatever she has decided. Sometimes, Leo feels that his relationship has suffered from him comparing Regan to his partner. “I have a job and I’m doing it and you can’t stop me, so you either step back and just watch as I do it or you stop whining. We are Nachzehrer agents and I have done far worse than say that I don’t think very highly of my parents. So please grow a pair or just shut the fuck up.”
Leo nods because he doesn’t feel like he has much of a choice. Kennedy has already made it and as much as he argues, she won’t change her mind. As her partner, it is his job to watch her back, no matter how much he disapproves. Someday, he’ll learn to say no, but not tonight.
Rating: PG
Challenge: Quince #29 - have you heard a word I said?
Extras / Toppings: caramel, malt (Easter Egg: Ichthus: The only place Success comes before Work is in the dictionary), sprinkles
Word Count: 1,014
Story: Misfits
Summary: Kennedy has a plan. Leo disapproves.
Notes: Amnesty Week: reach for the stars. I’m not really sure where this is going and what happened before it. This is probably towards the end of Kennedy’s story. There may be a few tense glitches. This is written during writer’s block, so forgive uninspired writing.
“Don’t do it,” Leo pleads for what must be the millionth time but she ignores him, focusing on her image in the mirror as she practices her lines in her head. What worried him most was the fact that she wasn’t even talking, defending her decision. Not because she didn’t know how to but because she didn’t think there was any reason to defend it. She thought she was doing the only right thing.
“We can find another way out of this, Ken, there is no point to betraying your principles,” Leo continues and it was then that Kennedy finally looks up and turns her head so that he can see her. She looks so determined that he knows he might just give up but he can’t. She is doing this for him, after all.
“Will my principles ever get me anywhere aside from sticky situations where I have to get over them if I want to get the job done. Principles just get in the way. We’ve talked about it. This is the only way to do it.”
“I bet we could think of something else if we really wanted to,” Leo insists, coming to stand behind her, making her whirl about immediately when he sets a hand down on the vanity on either side of her, trapping her.
“This is the only way and you know it.”
She has her father’s eyes. Well, usually Leo thinks of it the other way round because he met her before he met her family: Kennedy’s father has her eyes. He never really thinks about it but right now, it makes the hairs on his back stand on end. How can someone who looks so much like her parents do something like this, reject them as if they are acquaintances she has grown apart from?
“Eventually, they will understand. I will make up for it but right now, I need to do it and they would have done exactly the same thing if they needed to.” She looks as determined as she always does which bothers Leo. Why can’t she ever doubt herself once she’s made a decision?
Leo shakes his head. “They would never have trusted a double agent. Can’t you see how they used to look at Billy suspiciously when you were dating him? They couldn’t stand the idea that he was a handler and now you want to …”
“They already hate me, Leo,” Kennedy reminds him. “And they won’t understand why I’m doing any of what I do. As much as they the cause, as much as they are regarded as heroes from the past, it’s fucking hard for them to accept that their daughter decided to work at Nachzehrer, not Cerberus.”
Leo opens his mouth to protest but she raises her hand to stop him. “I know you think they are the greatest heroes of their generation and I’d probably agree with you but that doesn’t mean that they are always right. They have been out of the business forever and we can’t keep doing it the old way forever. We need to change things. They were always fighting with the higher-ups, Leo. You can’t keep doing everything like it’s been done before if you want a new outcome.”
She throws her long blond brain back over her shoulder and bullies her way out of Leo’s embrace, looking at him sourly but he thinks he can see something else in it, a pleading for him to understand that she would do things differently if she could. She has always been good at this, has always had instincts her parents would have been proud of. Hell, at one time, Kennedy had led a rescue mission with a team of people over sixty and from what Leo had seen, they had all been alcoholics. Leo had admittedly doubted her and been amazed when the mission had been a full success.
This time, however, he just doesn’t believe in her plan. He has gone as far as to call Regan and try to talk her into convincing Kennedy of changing her mind. It didn’t work because Regan is still screening his calls and doesn’t ever pick up. Break-ups complicate life to a degree that baffles him.
“If you don’t want to, you can stay out of this, Leo. I can do this by myself and I’ll take full responsibility.”
She isn’t lying. She always takes responsibility for everything she deems worth the trouble, has done so since the first day of their basic training. It has been one of the many reasons she’s always stood out and Leo knows it won’t ever change. That’s something he’s seen in her parents, too. He hates that they are nothing like real people, that they are so cool-headed and relaxed and are always ready to put their heads on the line for causes they believe in. Usually, Leo doesn’t really notice it but at times like these, there is no way around it.
“Listen, Lee,” she says, turning around to him, her hands on her hips and that resolute look on her face that he loves and hates. Regan had it sometimes but not often enough, this look where he knows that no matter what he does, she won’t back down from whatever she has decided. Sometimes, Leo feels that his relationship has suffered from him comparing Regan to his partner. “I have a job and I’m doing it and you can’t stop me, so you either step back and just watch as I do it or you stop whining. We are Nachzehrer agents and I have done far worse than say that I don’t think very highly of my parents. So please grow a pair or just shut the fuck up.”
Leo nods because he doesn’t feel like he has much of a choice. Kennedy has already made it and as much as he argues, she won’t change her mind. As her partner, it is his job to watch her back, no matter how much he disapproves. Someday, he’ll learn to say no, but not tonight.