14 - the days I live without you
I'm so very sorry for the lateness of the new post. But this is the first time LJ is working for me again. I wrote a sonnet for you but is now forever lost in the glitches :(
So no funny business here, I know you want to get back to the usual game ASAP.
There is a substitute on dreamwidth in case LJ is having trouble again.
The usual things:
1) All ( Read more... )
So no funny business here, I know you want to get back to the usual game ASAP.
There is a substitute on dreamwidth in case LJ is having trouble again.
The usual things:
1) All ( Read more... )
Subsequent chapters may have warnings.
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For a politician, this is hardly surprising, and David has barely given it a moment's thought. The bar is quiet, but beginning to fill, and he's had no trouble taking a corner table and covering it from end to end with parliamentary papers, and the notepad and pen on which he still, anachronistically, relies.
His mobile phone rings, just as he slides yet another paper into his makeshift Out pile, a draft response paper-clipped neatly to it. The number is Nick's.
"David, I am so very, very sorry. The meeting with George overran so long, and I still have to cover things with my team before I can knock off for the night," he says. He sounds out of breath, and flustered. It must have been quite the meeting--it takes a lot to fluster Nick these days. "I'll be as quick as I can, but I'll be another half hour at least ( ... )
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I'm the OP of the Unpleasant Lawdie prompt - I'm sorry I didn't see your post over there and I'd have missed the fic too at that rate. I'm a sucker for the ill-treated being shown how a nice, ordinary relationship should work and this looks like it'll be a peach. I'm liking the look of your Nick here, aa, and have noted there may be warnings later. Bastard!James - will this be the first sighting? In other words, Yay!
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Can't wait to see how this will continue.
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It starts on a Thursday night, not long after David has first taken his seat in Parliament ( ... )
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I'm curious just how much of a bastard bastard!James will turn out to be...
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Nick, you tease.
I love this, though: the way you hint that DLaws is used to a lover who gets down to business without necessarily having much consideration for him, whereas Nick is wanting to take it slow.
"We could. Go to bed?"
Both hot and..... sad.
And the dialogue and their thoughts about each other and.... love.
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James often doesn't even need to say anything. Sometimes they just have to exchange looks and David knows that it will happen. He can feel his horizons expanding exponentially, as all the things that he's never quite thought about happen to him, one by one. Some of it is wonderful; all of it is terrifying. Some of it makes him feel uncomfortable and exposed, and sometimes there is pain, but always there is something that stops him making for the hills as in his weaker moments he dearly wants to.
Occasionally, when work is too pressing, he'll shake his head and shut himself in his room. James will shrug, and roll his eyes, and leave him to it.
James still goes out, of a Thursday evening, and doubtless at weekends. David never protests this; For all James knows, he does the same in Yeovil.
Is this normal? he sometimes wonders. He hasn't discussed it with James at all, in fact. He doesn't know what James thinks they're doing. He just can't contemplate ( ... )
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