SHAMESHAMESHAME
GOD, I AM SUCH A SAP.
title: five ways to make colin morgan smile (with a little help from katie mcgrath)
pairing: colin/bradley
summary: bradley tries to make colin smile. most of the time, he succeeds.
word count: 959
rating: pg-13 for language and stuff
an: my love, awe, and first-borne forshortsweetsoul , who betas, cheeleads, and is criminally adorable. thank you, kat!
disclaimer: lies, please don't sue
Five Ways To Make Colin Morgan Smile (With A BIt Of Assistance From Katie McGrath)
One day, one of those days when no one wanted to play pranks or explore caves or just laugh, Bradley started making a list of all the ways to make Colin smile.
1. Mess with Angel
Screeching came from the other hotel room, followed by the words, "Bradley James, why the fuck have all of my hair products been replaced with bad blue hair dye?"
It wasn't his fault she hadn't given him a chance to tell her they were completely washable.
Plus, Colin had stopped moping in his book and turned away to try and hide his smile, so Bradley counted it as a success.
2. Make Katie and Anthony feel uncomfortable
"You know, Morgana and Uther have really amazing sexual tension. The chemistry is just unbelievable," Bradley mentioned, offhand, while eating breakfast a few days later. He still had bruises from the last time he pissed off Katie, but Colin had given him his "Bradley-I'm-thinking-deep-thoughts-and-won't-talk-to-you" frown, and Bradley was not going to accept defeat that easily.
Anthony choked on his coffee and spat it out all over his trousers. Even Katie blushed for a second before she collected herself and gave him a well-aimed kick in the shins.
This time, Colin didn't even attempt to hide his grin.
3. Get a bodhran record
Bradley has found out through googling Colin that he played the bodhran, which Bradley was not aware was a word. let alone a nationally respected instrument. (And googling Colin was a perfectly normal thing to do, and not at all proof of his teenage-girl crush on him, thank you very much Katie.)
After three dead links, several weird calls to all the Irish people he knew, and something that looked promising, but upon playing, turned out to be very, deeply scarring porn, he finally found a good song.
It looked basically like an oversized drum, in a marching bad or something, but it somehow came out to sound like an entire band, drum and guitar and maybe a bit of keyboard.
Bradley saved it until the next night, when Colin came straight from filming into his own room, without even a, "'Night," or a, "Bradley, if you sneak into my room at three am again, I'm getting a restraining order."
Frowning, Bradley decided it was time to pull out the big guns; he took his incredibly large and complicated iPod speakers from their box, his iPod, and set up camp outside Colin's room.
It took an hour and a half to figure out how the speakers turned on, another half an hour to connect the iPod to them, and forty-five minutes for assorted snacks. All in all, it was around midnight was Bradley was finally ready to start playing, but that was fine, because who went to bed around midnight? Losers. And there were no losers a this hotel, they'd already been infected with his awesomeness.
He started to play the song.
Two minutes later, he was surrounded by five maids who were holding cleaning supplies very threateningly, seven people speaking very fast and angry french (or possibly gibberish, he wasn't sure), makeup girls trying to stab his eyes out, and Katie McGrath.
He dived for his speakers protectively, and was sure that the crack he heard was just normal speaker noise. The song kept playing (through one side), and the screaming didn't stop either. He received several very unkind kicks in sensitive areas, which didn't even stop when he hit pause. He whimpered, looked for a kind face, and saw Colin grinning like a maniacal loon. Bradley wasn't totally sure whether it was due to the song or the physical pain he had endured, but he was pretty sure it was the song.
And if the next morning, Bradley happened to smile when he saw the bruises blooming? It didn't mean anything.
4. Kiss him
Nothing was working.
Walking into a door, calling Anthony "Giles," repeatedly, teasing Katie about her stuffed animal, discussing the absolutely-heterosexual symbolism of Merlin, acting out the plots to Colin's philosophical books, showing Colin the genius of Princess Arthur Pendragon; nothing would work.
Later on, Bradley would use that as an excuse for what he did next; simply brought his and Colin's mouths together.
Or, actually, it should have been simple, but Colin, after a few seconds of very nice action, wrenched away, and said, "Oh god, Bradley, if this is a prank - It's a prank, isn't it, I'm such an idiot. Bradley, tell me it's a prank, right?"
Bradley was a bit astounded, because whenever he had (occasionally) thought about kissing Colin, and then seen him, and thought of all the ways it could go horribly, horribly wrong and chickened out, "thinking it's a joke," had never crossed his mind.
It was so unexpected, honestly, that Bradley didn't really have an answer. He just sat there, staring at Colin, dumbfounded that he could think that he would do something like that.
Colin took that as a yes, or something, because he got up from the bed and, pretty much, ran away.
Two minutes of shock later, Katie stormed into the room and informed Bradley, "He's in his room, go fix whatever fucking idiotic thing you did to him or I will destroy you."
This turned out to be exactly what Bradley needed. And the next time Bradley kissed Colin, he first explained very carefully and thoroughly that it was not in any way a prank, it was actually exactly the opposite. No one pulled away.
5. Say "I love you"
Bradley hadn't tried that one quite yet, but he was pretty sure it would be the best out of all of them.
title: five ways to make colin morgan smile (with a little help from katie mcgrath)
pairing: colin/bradley
summary: bradley tries to make colin smile. most of the time, he succeeds.
word count: 959
rating: pg-13 for language and stuff
an: my love, awe, and first-borne forshortsweetsoul , who betas, cheeleads, and is criminally adorable. thank you, kat!
disclaimer: lies, please don't sue
Five Ways To Make Colin Morgan Smile (With A BIt Of Assistance From Katie McGrath)
One day, one of those days when no one wanted to play pranks or explore caves or just laugh, Bradley started making a list of all the ways to make Colin smile.
1. Mess with Angel
Screeching came from the other hotel room, followed by the words, "Bradley James, why the fuck have all of my hair products been replaced with bad blue hair dye?"
It wasn't his fault she hadn't given him a chance to tell her they were completely washable.
Plus, Colin had stopped moping in his book and turned away to try and hide his smile, so Bradley counted it as a success.
2. Make Katie and Anthony feel uncomfortable
"You know, Morgana and Uther have really amazing sexual tension. The chemistry is just unbelievable," Bradley mentioned, offhand, while eating breakfast a few days later. He still had bruises from the last time he pissed off Katie, but Colin had given him his "Bradley-I'm-thinking-deep-thoughts-and-won't-talk-to-you" frown, and Bradley was not going to accept defeat that easily.
Anthony choked on his coffee and spat it out all over his trousers. Even Katie blushed for a second before she collected herself and gave him a well-aimed kick in the shins.
This time, Colin didn't even attempt to hide his grin.
3. Get a bodhran record
Bradley has found out through googling Colin that he played the bodhran, which Bradley was not aware was a word. let alone a nationally respected instrument. (And googling Colin was a perfectly normal thing to do, and not at all proof of his teenage-girl crush on him, thank you very much Katie.)
After three dead links, several weird calls to all the Irish people he knew, and something that looked promising, but upon playing, turned out to be very, deeply scarring porn, he finally found a good song.
It looked basically like an oversized drum, in a marching bad or something, but it somehow came out to sound like an entire band, drum and guitar and maybe a bit of keyboard.
Bradley saved it until the next night, when Colin came straight from filming into his own room, without even a, "'Night," or a, "Bradley, if you sneak into my room at three am again, I'm getting a restraining order."
Frowning, Bradley decided it was time to pull out the big guns; he took his incredibly large and complicated iPod speakers from their box, his iPod, and set up camp outside Colin's room.
It took an hour and a half to figure out how the speakers turned on, another half an hour to connect the iPod to them, and forty-five minutes for assorted snacks. All in all, it was around midnight was Bradley was finally ready to start playing, but that was fine, because who went to bed around midnight? Losers. And there were no losers a this hotel, they'd already been infected with his awesomeness.
He started to play the song.
Two minutes later, he was surrounded by five maids who were holding cleaning supplies very threateningly, seven people speaking very fast and angry french (or possibly gibberish, he wasn't sure), makeup girls trying to stab his eyes out, and Katie McGrath.
He dived for his speakers protectively, and was sure that the crack he heard was just normal speaker noise. The song kept playing (through one side), and the screaming didn't stop either. He received several very unkind kicks in sensitive areas, which didn't even stop when he hit pause. He whimpered, looked for a kind face, and saw Colin grinning like a maniacal loon. Bradley wasn't totally sure whether it was due to the song or the physical pain he had endured, but he was pretty sure it was the song.
And if the next morning, Bradley happened to smile when he saw the bruises blooming? It didn't mean anything.
4. Kiss him
Nothing was working.
Walking into a door, calling Anthony "Giles," repeatedly, teasing Katie about her stuffed animal, discussing the absolutely-heterosexual symbolism of Merlin, acting out the plots to Colin's philosophical books, showing Colin the genius of Princess Arthur Pendragon; nothing would work.
Later on, Bradley would use that as an excuse for what he did next; simply brought his and Colin's mouths together.
Or, actually, it should have been simple, but Colin, after a few seconds of very nice action, wrenched away, and said, "Oh god, Bradley, if this is a prank - It's a prank, isn't it, I'm such an idiot. Bradley, tell me it's a prank, right?"
Bradley was a bit astounded, because whenever he had (occasionally) thought about kissing Colin, and then seen him, and thought of all the ways it could go horribly, horribly wrong and chickened out, "thinking it's a joke," had never crossed his mind.
It was so unexpected, honestly, that Bradley didn't really have an answer. He just sat there, staring at Colin, dumbfounded that he could think that he would do something like that.
Colin took that as a yes, or something, because he got up from the bed and, pretty much, ran away.
Two minutes of shock later, Katie stormed into the room and informed Bradley, "He's in his room, go fix whatever fucking idiotic thing you did to him or I will destroy you."
This turned out to be exactly what Bradley needed. And the next time Bradley kissed Colin, he first explained very carefully and thoroughly that it was not in any way a prank, it was actually exactly the opposite. No one pulled away.
5. Say "I love you"
Bradley hadn't tried that one quite yet, but he was pretty sure it would be the best out of all of them.