Comments | themonkeytwin: Do you know how many fics are named "tea and sympathy"? Me neither.

themonkeytwin

Do you know how many fics are named "tea and sympathy"? Me neither.

Jan 15, 2011 22:43

Title: tea and sympathy
Ficverse: Leverage
Series: Understanding Among Thieves
Rating: Gen, PG
Length: 1400 ish
Characters: Sophie, Eliot
Teaser: "Sophie, he made me a mute!"
Notes: More conversations. Actually, I was already on to the next one between these two, when I realised I needed another beat before that. And then I realised I could just have a ( Read more... )

fanfic, fic series: understanding among thieves, leverage, fic: one shots, conversation!kink

Comments 14

steeleblue January 16 2011, 20:58:34 UTC

Loved the friendship between them. I like Eliot and Sophie as friends. I think it's interesting because they're so different, but able to make it work.

themonkeytwin January 17 2011, 02:28:23 UTC

Different, and yet also peers. They're both keeping an eye on Nate, and trying to keep Hardison and Parker out of too much trouble. So, yeah, there's a lot to play with there. I love their friendship too much to mess it around (much) :)

cata_clysmiic January 20 2011, 17:35:02 UTC

Yet again, this is wonderful. You write Sophie/Eliot conversation so beautifully, so realistically. These twwwwwoooo! Nggghhh. Their relationship is obviously intensely interesting, and it's always great to break it down, to meditate on it in fic. Which again, you just do very, very well!

And especially this:

That got another short laugh out of him. "And how's yourself?"

She smiled at the deliberate phrasing, the slight lilt he included. "Oh, I'm sure I'm lying around here someplace."

"Backtrack to the last place you saw it, huh?" he asked, easy with unspoken understanding. He probably understood better than she did. "Could work."

So well done.

themonkeytwin January 20 2011, 21:52:21 UTC

Thank you! You've put a big old smile on my face. I second your Nggghhh.

Their relationship is obviously intensely interesting

From the moment they had that "That's an odd place for you to be." "That's an odd place for you to know" I was hooked. That playfulness and knowingness and challenge and careful reserve all just ... blend together into a gorgeous cocktail that doesn't need to be sexual to be charged. Which is something I want to preserve because it's so unusual. I like that they just CARE about each other. And that they can just be themselves, because they're not trying to impress each other, or compete. And that they can call one another out. And play. And!

Well, you know. Anyways. :)