The Built in a Day Job

[ratherastory]

Title: The Built in a Day Job
Summary: Written as a part of leveragexchange. Eliot takes refuge in his apartment in Rome after The San Lorenzo Job, only to be followed by the one person he thought no longer cared.
Characters: Eliot/Sophie
Rating: hard R
Wordcount: ~4,200
Warnings: Spoilers for the end of The San Lorenzo Job. Explicit sex. Overabundant attention

Comments

[tifaching]

Wow. That was perfect. I love that it's the woman in the painting that reminds Sophie of Eliot, not the shadowy man in the background.

Sensual and sexy. And now I'm hungry. Your descriptions of the marketplace and the cooking and the food were marvelous.

This was amazing!

[ratherastory]

Thank you so much! I'm glad the whole food thing worked, because it took up about 3/4 of the fic. I spent all my time yelling at Sophie and Eliot to stop going on about the food and have sex, already. ;)

And yeah, Eliot thinks he's the guy in the shadows, but there are people who are able to recognize him for who he truly is.

[pkwench]

*siigh* I'm just imagining Eliot's hands doing all of that work (and I mean all of it!) and I am now firmly in my happy place. LOVELY job, very richly detailed, and somehow sad - which I adore. ♥

[ratherastory]

:)

Hands. Hands are good. I mean, what's not to love, right? I don't know how it ended up being sort of sad, but I suppose it's because there's an underlying sadness to all the characters: for better or for worse, they've all spent their lives hurting people in one way or another (and let's not kid ourselves: even alleged 'victimless' crimes aren't victimless), and they have to live with that now.

[devylish]

quite quite lovely.... italy maybe france could have been the only place you could have set this fic... the foods, the scents, the lack of rushing from one spot to another....

the unrushed love making....

sigh.... great job.

[ratherastory]

*beams*

Thank you! I toyed with the idea of setting it in Paris, but since I went to Rome this spring I went with that instead. I deliberately set a slow pace to the story, so I'm very glad it worked for you. :)

[didgeridoodle]

This is so, so tastefully and sensually done! The descriptions - the prose - they all mesh into one fantastic narrative. I've never contemplated about Eliot/Sophie before, but consider me intrigued and converted! MUCH LOVE FOR THIS! ♥

[ratherastory]

Thank you so much! I rather like the idea of Eliot/Sophie. They strike me as being uniquely positioned to really understand each other. I'm so pleased you liked it!

[midgetrosie]

This is beautifully written - great job!

[ratherastory]

Thank you so much!