FAKE Quadruple Drabble: Still Hoping
Title: Still Hoping
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Berkeley Rose.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 3, Act 8.
Summary: Dee isn’t going to give up hope, there’s still a chance he can win Ryo’s heart.
Written Using: The tw100 prompt ‘Hope’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
For a long time, Dee had clung to hope like a life raft, the only thing keeping him from giving up in the face of Ryo’s disinterest. He knew he’d probably been too forward, definitely too forceful in trying to show his partner how he felt, but he’d always been better with actions than words. It was just that he hated seeing the man he was falling for wasting his life on a lie.
It wasn’t that Dee thought he had some kind on infallible gaydar, but he was a cop, a detective, trained to notice things, and what he’d noticed most about Ryo was his complete lack of interest when attractive women flirted with him. Or rather, they flirted AT him, since Ryo never reciprocated, even when he and Dee weren’t on the job. That told Dee one very important thing: that despite Ryo’s insistence to the contrary, he was nowhere near as straight as he claimed.
That little fact had given Dee plenty of reasons to hope. After all, he was a good-looking guy, Ryo could certainly do worse for himself, especially since the two of them got along so well in every other respect. Ryo was the kind of guy Dee could see himself settling down with. No, scratch that: Ryo was the ONLY guy Dee could see himself settling down with. All he needed now was to convince Ryo that they were made for each other, which was proving way harder than he’d hoped.
What was bothering Dee now was the competition, because Berkeley Rose could offer Ryo things Dee knew he never could, not on his salary. While he knew his partner wasn’t the kind of man to be impressed by wealth and power, Rose was smoothly charming, and oozed a kind of suave self-confidence Dee couldn’t hope to match. Why did the rat bastard have to set his sights on Dee’s guy?
Then Rose made a move on Ryo, and Ryo responded by punching the Commissioner in the mouth. Dee wasn’t there when it happened, but when Ryo told him about it, he wanted to cheer. In all the times Ryo had pushed Dee away, he’d never punched him. Clobbered him with a clipboard, sure, but that wasn’t the same thing at all. Then, to make things even better, Ryo asked Dee to kiss him…
Looked like Dee shouldn’t give up hope just yet.
The End
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Berkeley Rose.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 3, Act 8.
Summary: Dee isn’t going to give up hope, there’s still a chance he can win Ryo’s heart.
Written Using: The tw100 prompt ‘Hope’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
For a long time, Dee had clung to hope like a life raft, the only thing keeping him from giving up in the face of Ryo’s disinterest. He knew he’d probably been too forward, definitely too forceful in trying to show his partner how he felt, but he’d always been better with actions than words. It was just that he hated seeing the man he was falling for wasting his life on a lie.
It wasn’t that Dee thought he had some kind on infallible gaydar, but he was a cop, a detective, trained to notice things, and what he’d noticed most about Ryo was his complete lack of interest when attractive women flirted with him. Or rather, they flirted AT him, since Ryo never reciprocated, even when he and Dee weren’t on the job. That told Dee one very important thing: that despite Ryo’s insistence to the contrary, he was nowhere near as straight as he claimed.
That little fact had given Dee plenty of reasons to hope. After all, he was a good-looking guy, Ryo could certainly do worse for himself, especially since the two of them got along so well in every other respect. Ryo was the kind of guy Dee could see himself settling down with. No, scratch that: Ryo was the ONLY guy Dee could see himself settling down with. All he needed now was to convince Ryo that they were made for each other, which was proving way harder than he’d hoped.
What was bothering Dee now was the competition, because Berkeley Rose could offer Ryo things Dee knew he never could, not on his salary. While he knew his partner wasn’t the kind of man to be impressed by wealth and power, Rose was smoothly charming, and oozed a kind of suave self-confidence Dee couldn’t hope to match. Why did the rat bastard have to set his sights on Dee’s guy?
Then Rose made a move on Ryo, and Ryo responded by punching the Commissioner in the mouth. Dee wasn’t there when it happened, but when Ryo told him about it, he wanted to cheer. In all the times Ryo had pushed Dee away, he’d never punched him. Clobbered him with a clipboard, sure, but that wasn’t the same thing at all. Then, to make things even better, Ryo asked Dee to kiss him…
Looked like Dee shouldn’t give up hope just yet.
The End