Numb3rs: Don't Have To Tell (Colby, David)

[bluflamingo]

Title: Don't Have To Tell
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Colby, David (mild Colby/oc)
Rating: PG
Words: 4383
Disclaimer: No, I don’t own them. To my profound disappointment.

Summary: The trouble with FBI agents is, they tend to figure things out; written for lgbtfest; set sometime in season 4.

Comments

[ionaonie]

I somehow miss stuff of yours that I end up loving and adoring.

This, this was perfect. I can totally see Colby coming out that way. All the fics where he finds it easy kind of annoy me.

And David, oh, David, you meany, teasing poor Colby like that. It was hilarious *g*

I loved this so much, hon. Now I'm going to read all the other stuff connected to it.

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

I can totally see Colby coming out that way. All the fics where he finds it easy kind of annoy me.

Yeah; I can't really see however many years he spent in the army being easy to shake off, especially in the FBI, which doesn't strike me as the easiest place to be openly gay!

[ionaonie]

I don't think the FBI would be an easy place to be openly gay either. And, even if Colby is okay with it himself, he'd be cautious and not exactly willing to let everyone know.

You know, I think I've just identified my main problem with so much Charlie/Colby fic - Colby has so little angst or conflict within himself (although I could just be reading the wrong fic). Thank you *g*

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

Colby's little crush, and the fact that David doesn't get it. I especially loved that David didn't get it. And probably won't.

10pm wrote David's side of the story in which he does wonder if there's something else as well as friendship, but yeah, I like the idea that he doesn't really know that there is. I think Colby definitely wouldn't tell him, ever, and David would definitely never ask.

[awils1]

A confession: I haven't read Numb3rs fic in such a long time, and this was a brilliant way to reintroduce me! Gosh, I can't commend your sheer brilliance and skill in making this premise work as it has enough.

Colby was so good at hiding---and it's canonical detail, here---that it doesn't surprise me in the least that he would have managed to work it into his life, and eventually his career.

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

[neth_dugan]

Just spotted this fic and thought I'd pop in to say I love it. It seems very in character and very real, you can feel the tension but it fits in perfectly with their friendship and everything.

Have to say, Don is Jewish so that's religious minority.

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

Have to say, Don is Jewish so that's religious minority.

Curses, you're quite right! How did I miss that when I was writing this?

[neth_dugan]

LOL, I dunno. Did you write it before Don started going to temple and stuff? Cause before then it wasn't really mentioned on screen though it was kind of known.