Apologies
Title: Apologies
Author: nancygrw
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Characters belong to ATWt
Notes: Originally written as comment fic in Noah_Who but since it fits in with the rest of my 'Verse, I'm going to include it in here. You do not have to read my other fic in order to understand this one. Takes place January 2011.
Summary: Luke's been reading his old journals and doesn't like what he's been reading.
Reid arrives home at the Walsh cottage shortly before midnight to find Luke sitting cross-legged on the bedroom floor looking through a pile of notebooks. Luke is frowning and angrily flipping through pages. Reid approaches him carefully.
"What’s going on?" asks Reid.
Luke is startled by Reid’s presence and hurriedly throws the notebooks into a small box. "Nothing. How’d the surgery go?"
"Fine. So, are we just going to ignore the fact that you’re upset about something and that you just lied to my face about it? I’m pretty sure Oprah would have something to say about that."
"We’re using Oprah as our Pretend Relationship Guru?" asked Luke with a raised eyebrow.
"I thought you might think it was unromantic if I wanted to use Michael Corleone as our Pretend Relationship Guru," answered Reid. "Let’s try this again. What’s wrong?"
Luke sighed. "I’d apologize for putting you off when you asked me what was going on. But after careful review of my old personal journals, I’ve decided that I’m not going to apologize to anybody every again. About anything. I’ve never noticed before but it seems like every entry I’ve ever written my entire forgiveness-seeking life starts off with ‘I had to apologize to so and so today about so and so.’"
Reid smirked and sat down beside Luke. He slung an arm over Luke’s shoulder. "I will stand behind your decision to be an unapologetic bastard."
"I don’t plan on being an unapologetic bastard," sniffed Luke. "I’m going to be an unapologetic regular person."
Reid sighed. "Fine. But let me know if you want to be a bastard. I’d be a good Bastard Mentor."
"You’d be the best Bastard Mentor," sighed Luke dreamily.
Reid laughed. "I think it’d be a good thing for you not to take the blame for everything that ever goes wrong in the world. Do you want to read me some prime Apology Excerpts from the Luke Snyder Apologia Opus?"
"Not right now, thanks," said Luke as he laid his head on Reid’s shoulder and laid a hand on his thigh.
"Do you want to practice not apologizing?" asked Reid.
"Not quite sure how one practices not doing something," replied Luke.
"Luke!" cried out Reid dramatically. "I can’t believe I have to attend another Snyder Drama Fest next week. My life is an unrelenting Hell."
Luke laughed and pushed Reid to the floor. He straddled Reid. "Tough. You’re going to attend Sunday dinner at the Farm. You always put up a fight but then you end up humming over Grandma’s cooking and wallowing in the adoration of Ethan and Natalie."
"Nice job at not apologizing but I think that it’d be okay if you used sexual bribery to get me to do stuff that I don’t want to do. That’s completely different from feeling guilty about stuff that’s not your fault."
Luke tilted his head as he thought about it. "Naw. I think I’m going to go with sexual demands instead instead of sexual bribery."
Reid shrugged. "That’d work too."
Author: nancygrw
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Characters belong to ATWt
Notes: Originally written as comment fic in Noah_Who but since it fits in with the rest of my 'Verse, I'm going to include it in here. You do not have to read my other fic in order to understand this one. Takes place January 2011.
Summary: Luke's been reading his old journals and doesn't like what he's been reading.
Reid arrives home at the Walsh cottage shortly before midnight to find Luke sitting cross-legged on the bedroom floor looking through a pile of notebooks. Luke is frowning and angrily flipping through pages. Reid approaches him carefully.
"What’s going on?" asks Reid.
Luke is startled by Reid’s presence and hurriedly throws the notebooks into a small box. "Nothing. How’d the surgery go?"
"Fine. So, are we just going to ignore the fact that you’re upset about something and that you just lied to my face about it? I’m pretty sure Oprah would have something to say about that."
"We’re using Oprah as our Pretend Relationship Guru?" asked Luke with a raised eyebrow.
"I thought you might think it was unromantic if I wanted to use Michael Corleone as our Pretend Relationship Guru," answered Reid. "Let’s try this again. What’s wrong?"
Luke sighed. "I’d apologize for putting you off when you asked me what was going on. But after careful review of my old personal journals, I’ve decided that I’m not going to apologize to anybody every again. About anything. I’ve never noticed before but it seems like every entry I’ve ever written my entire forgiveness-seeking life starts off with ‘I had to apologize to so and so today about so and so.’"
Reid smirked and sat down beside Luke. He slung an arm over Luke’s shoulder. "I will stand behind your decision to be an unapologetic bastard."
"I don’t plan on being an unapologetic bastard," sniffed Luke. "I’m going to be an unapologetic regular person."
Reid sighed. "Fine. But let me know if you want to be a bastard. I’d be a good Bastard Mentor."
"You’d be the best Bastard Mentor," sighed Luke dreamily.
Reid laughed. "I think it’d be a good thing for you not to take the blame for everything that ever goes wrong in the world. Do you want to read me some prime Apology Excerpts from the Luke Snyder Apologia Opus?"
"Not right now, thanks," said Luke as he laid his head on Reid’s shoulder and laid a hand on his thigh.
"Do you want to practice not apologizing?" asked Reid.
"Not quite sure how one practices not doing something," replied Luke.
"Luke!" cried out Reid dramatically. "I can’t believe I have to attend another Snyder Drama Fest next week. My life is an unrelenting Hell."
Luke laughed and pushed Reid to the floor. He straddled Reid. "Tough. You’re going to attend Sunday dinner at the Farm. You always put up a fight but then you end up humming over Grandma’s cooking and wallowing in the adoration of Ethan and Natalie."
"Nice job at not apologizing but I think that it’d be okay if you used sexual bribery to get me to do stuff that I don’t want to do. That’s completely different from feeling guilty about stuff that’s not your fault."
Luke tilted his head as he thought about it. "Naw. I think I’m going to go with sexual demands instead instead of sexual bribery."
Reid shrugged. "That’d work too."