(You Look Like) A Perfect Fit, Alicia/Kalinda, PG

[damelola]

Title: (You Look Like) A Perfect Fit
Pairing: Kalinda/Alicia
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Through 3x11
Disclaimer: Not mine! These belong to the Kings, CBS et al. No profit. No harm, no foul (it's a basketball term, Your Honor)

Prompt: For sweetjamielee's prompt birthday
Dedication: Belated birthday wishes first of all, Jamie! I hope you've had lovely holidays,

Comments

[sweetjamielee]

OH GOD. Okay, this is offish one of my fave birthday presents this year. You have made me a very, very happy girl.

I could seriously read about them making up in a thousand different ways, every day of the week, and never, ever get tired of it. You just make it... so perfect and natural, and I BELIEVE it when you write it, that it could be so easy. Like, it should be harder, it should hurt more, but somehow because it's them and they fit in some weird, cosmic way, things start falling into place like it's the natural order of the universe.

And Kalinda is never more endearing than when she's trying for her "yeah, whatever, no biggie, I do shit like this every day" routine, but fails miserably because she has FEEEEEEEEELINGS for Lish and it comes out, helplessly and hopelessly, in every way: Kalinda wants to lie and disappear into the night where nobody can give her baked goods. LOL and yes, yes yes. TOO BAD, K. ALICIA IS HERE TO GIVE YOU CUPCAKES AND LOVE. SUCK IT UP AND TAKE IT

[zinnia_rose]

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. *dies* *comes back to life to leave a comment*

Somewhere in between being grateful and the disaster of her personal life, Alicia feels the forgiveness start to take root inside her.
This is so freaking perfect, how they become friends again gradually instead of as a Very Big Thing.

I really love how Kalinda just says "sure" when Alicia takes the first step. It's so...Kalinda not to make a big deal out of it, and I think it really will need to be Alicia who initiates.

“Then I won’t promise,” Kalinda says, staring her down. “But I can tell you that I’ll try.”

And that, Alicia knows, is not a gift that Kalinda offers lightly.
Beautiful. Love it.

I nearly fell off my chair from squeeing so hard when Alicia made Peter look up Kalinda's birthday. Kalinda's "WTF is this?!" reaction to Alicia's birthday present was awesome and hilarious.

But hands down, this is my favorite bit:
And somehow in that moment, as Kalinda rolls her eyes at her frustrating lack of words, Alicia finally sees it. She understands

[rhyfeddu]

Wow, you have such a nimble way around these two - at no point did I ever say to myself "no, they wouldn't do/say that" even as you led them (unfortunately) away from canon. It all felt right.

“Yeah,” Kalinda says, and whether it’s the lateness or the tequila or that some moon is in Saturn, she smiles so genuinely that it takes Alicia’s breath away. “I am,” Kalinda continues, and Alicia blinks about a hundred times trying to recover her train of thought.

A genuine smile from Kalinda. :)

This was all wonderful, full stop.

[egalitarianmuse]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. I just--YES. That's what I want. This is fantastic.

[queencestqueen]

This is fantastic!

Cross post to alicia_kalinda, please?