A Twinkie Kind of Day - Part 2 of 2

[cat_willow]

Fandom: Numb3rs
Pairing: Larry/Charlie (pre/slash)
Rating: PG/FR Teen (References to m/m sexuality and math!hair)
Word count: 4,298
Summary: Part 2 of 2. Obviously Charles was looking for something from him. Larry didn’t know what to do. He felt that everything he had done, or not done, in his career and all the personal contacts he had missed

Comments

[elleria]

Love this story...just love it. :-)

[cat_willow]

I'm so glad you like it! Larry and Charlie are so much fun, in any time period.

[micehell]

I think you have Larry's obviously slightly distracted thought process down very well. And poor Charlie, living far too much in himself, and consequently falling into bad assumptions, like that the distance between he and Larry was from something he had done. He tends to be far too self absorbed, even in the show, but with the isolation someone like him would have dealt with (something you even allude to in the story), that's pretty understandable.

It's so sweet that their friendship is going to be a help to them both. Larry's position as mentor, with both age and experience on his side, could potentially have made the relationship more unequal, but here, as in canon really, you can see that it's definitely mutually rewarding.

Now the only thing I need to know is where's the next story? ;)

[cat_willow]

Thank you for the encouragement! I'm glad you like Larry

[miriam_heddy]

I'm dying now. Absolutely dying. Larry the drill sargeant saying, "Halt" and being amazed that it worked, and poor Larry contemplating cutting off his right arm.

When a slash story works, it reminds you of why you fell in love to begin with, and this did that. I want to spend time in that cozy little birds-nest of a brain Larry has, with his disasterous metaphors and unbounded lust, and his very human ambivalence, desiring Charlie and fearing his intellectual achievement, being jealous and generous in turn and always entirely honest with himself about it.

I just don't understand how anyone could not love this man and his Twinkies!

There's going to be more of this AU, right? Because I'm absolutely hooked.

[cat_willow]

*Blushing* Oh, thank you so much! I'm thrilled that you like.

Larry, esp. as played by PM, appears as this tidy little package that everyone thinks they understand. Smart, geeky, shy, distracted, eccentric, small in stature, inconspicuous. Kind of a cardboard cut-out. Easy to overlook and to dismiss.

And the thing is, Larry *is* all of those things. But they just form the top layer, the one he hides behind. Sure he looks smart, but do many people realize just *how* smart he is? If they listen, they'll learn the many subjects on which he's conversant. His tangents seem bizarre, but are they really? There's always a subtext, even if it doesn't come to light right away. He's shy but he's funny ("Here's where I get reductive on your ass." - paraphrased). He's quiet (well, sometimes) but will do anything for his friends. He's short, sort of folds in on himself a lot, has whimsical gestures and a rather peculiar wardrobe, but the man is *hot*What if TPTB had very unwisely made Charlie's mentor a 6'2" 35 yr old Nobel winning

[thankyoumaam]

*tear*
Very moving.

I also liked Larry's physical description of Charlie. Screw physics, he should write poetry.

[cat_willow]

I'm glad you liked! It was fun to write.

I also liked Larry's physical description of Charlie. Screw physics, he should write poetry.

I think Larry might say that they're the same thing. *g*

[annakas]

Ohhh this was such an interesting fic.
To see Larry floundering and feeling professionally unsatisfied, not to mention crushing on Charlie.

And to see Charlie so alone since he was the youngest and smartest.

Loved their reconnection and the inital misunderstanding. Made for an interesting read.

annakas