Fic - the cold comfort of the in-between (Donna/Harvey) nc-17, 1/1

[abvj]

Title: the cold comfort of the in-between
Summary: The other time. It is just as complicated as one would think. 
Rating: hard r/nc-17
Author's Notes: 3,986 words. You had to know this was coming! General series spoilers. Set pre-series, obviously. All mistakes are mine. These characters, however, are not. Con-crit is both welcome and appreciated, and

Comments

[magisterequitum]

GAH

I wish I had more coherent thoughts at the moment because I really love this 'other time' that you made for them. It's so wonderful and a perfect capture of time with them inside it, and they lie and lie and say just this once, but that moment and that line will always be there. I love too that you said that they took a long time to reach this point, that it took days and weeks and years and that's just so wonderful because it's real. Every bit of it's gorgeous writing and especially the moment in his childhood bedroom after his father's death. SO GOOD.

HOW DO YOU WRITE LIKE THIS? SHOW ME YOUR WAYS!

[abvj]

♥♥♥♥♥

I love it when you like my stuff, because I always love your stuff, and ugh. Biggest compliment ever! What I am even more glad that you liked is the scene after his dad's funeral because I went back and forth about leaving it in because it felt... out of place at first, but I really, really wanted to show that this is why they never took it any further and tie it back to the line where it says that it's always going to be more than that. So, yeah. That makes me really happy.

HOW IS THE PROPOSAL AU FIC COMING ALONG????

[lapiccolina]

Oh MY.

Those idiots.

Oh my GAWD.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So good!!!

[abvj]

WHY ARE THEY SO RIDICULOUS???? I just want them to make out and admit they love each other already! IT IS SO OBVIOUS. It was obvious then and that's why the never spoke of it again, obviously. Psh.

Now I want to write the next time when they, you know, actually manage to get things right.

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback :)

(Also: pretty Rachel icon is pretty!)

[lapiccolina]

Thanks! I did a whole journal and icon revamp. Kept my OTPs of OTP on hand, but definitely needed to get a Rachel icon in! I so identify with her, it's not even funny. (Which may explain why I have such a massive crush on the Mike actor, hahaha).

OMG. You must write the NEXT NEXT time! Doubly as hot, because you know it will be and it will be just as loaded. You know, I bet sometimes they'll share a look, and this is what they think of! They practically ARE MARRIED. And is time goes on, I feel like Donna may keep having those "Why are we wasting time?"

Yet they won't do anything about it.

*headdesk*

[abvj]

I need a Rachel icon, too. She is too awesome not to. Talk to me about Mike/Rachel. You ship them, right? I want to know what everyone's feelings are on them because I ship them, but not to an extreme, and I feel like I am missing something fundamentally important.

In my head, ever since they mentioned it on the show, I kind of thought that they didn't actually go through with it, but now that I've written this, it's kind of my head canon? So, I am just going to choose to believe that every time these two stupid idiots look at each other longingly, they are reverting back to this or something like it. Because that is probably more than we will ever see in the show. I have a feeling the creators are going to tease this out FOREVER... if they even decide to go there at all.

[abvj]

THEY ARE IN LOVE BUT ALSO IN DENIAL. SO I AM GOING TO WRITE ALL THE MAKE OUTS IN FIC BECAUSE THAT IS HOW I ROLL.

Not quite sure why I am talking in caps, but I just loooove them.

WATCH. NOW. ASAP. SO WE CAN SQUEE ABOUT THESE TWO IDIOTS TOGETHER.

[gagewhitney]

Gah. I bow down to you. This is amazing and perfect and hot, and totally believable to boot. Great job!

[abvj]

I still find that last fic of yours utterly brilliant, so thank you!

(Hopefully we'll be seeing more from you asap? I am not usually this obnoxious, but I just want all the fic all the time of these two!)

[gagewhitney]

(Thanks, and hopefully! I agree -- more Harvey/Donna fic is needed, STAT!)

[tidbit2008]

THESE TWO. OMG. Guhhhhhhhhh. This is so perfectly frustratingly them. I think I love them in his childhood bedroom most of all. Quiet moments, hands, that kind of stuff always gets to me. But all of this is seriously good. Your details ring really true. Like -

the sight of his bare feet against the tile of her kitchen floor, the way his hair sticks every which way.

There's something about this mental image that just works so well. I can see it, from comfortable to freak out in perfectly synchronized 10 seconds flat. Sigh.

Love this ♥

[abvj]

THANK YOU! So glad you liked this. And even more glad that those details about the morning after worked for you! I can just see Donna being all business like and casual because in her head it's just sex, but then she sees him all messy and unkempt which is so unlike Harvey and it just floors her.

UGH. THESE TWO. I want all the fic, all the time. I think we should start a campaign.

[tidbit2008]

I think it's something about his hair going everywhere that is such a boy thing, and not at all how she's used to seeing Harvey. He's this hot shot lawyer and her boss, but I feel like he looks like a ten year old with bedhead.

Saaame. I think I wrote baby fic today? Cause I'm crazy? meeeeep.

[abvj]

STOP THE PRESS:

Saaame. I think I wrote baby fic today? Cause I'm crazy? meeeeep.

WITH HARVEY/DONNA??? CAN I HAVE THAT, LIKE, RIGHT THIS SECOND????