3 Fics for Challenge 113: Keeping Cool

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Three fics to start off in response to the new challenge. I just had so many delicious ideas I didn't know which to write first! :D

Title: It's a Tricky Thing
Author: tseecka 
Rating: 16+
Prompt: 113: Keeping Cool
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairing: Nick/Stephen
Spoilers: Sort of spoilers for S2


Nick just wants to slam him against the wall. The sight of that face is enough to drive him wild; he's so irrationally angry at the betrayal, so unbelievably impassioned by those eyes--

Should stop, thinking only hurts more.

Friends, and lovers--or maybe something strange and inbetween, and its all gone now, lost because of words that can't be unsaid. He regrets every word, but can't take them back.

He's filled with anger and passion in equal amounts; wants to beat his face in, and beat off in his face; and it is getting so, so hard to keep his cool.


Title: With You
Author: tseecka 
Rating: PG
Prompt: 113: Keeping Cool
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairing: Nick/Stephen
Spoilers: S01E02


The washcloth is damp, but warm, on his forehead, and that's what wakes him. Bleary eyes fight to open; the light hurts too much. His body aches, his head throbs, and his skin feels like it's on fire.

"What...?" he manages to choke out; it feels like the words are scalding his raw throat. The washcloth recedes; he hears water; then gloriously cool dampness on his skin. A straw slides past his parched lips, and he sucks greedily, the water soothing his burning throat.

"It's all right, Stephen," he hears Nick's voice say, cutting through the feverish haze. "I'm here."


Title: Kerfuffle
Author: tseecka 
Rating: PG
Prompt: 113: Keeping Cool
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairing: Stephen/Abby, actually
Spoilers: None, really


Abby fans herself with a magazine as she lounges about the super-heated flat, scanning the room for some way to bring down her own temperature. Her eyes lock on the fridge helplessly. There's nothing to drink in there. Nothing but a bag of oranges, some lettuce, and 3 day old Chinese.

A dull thud at the back of her head, and a splash of water suddenly soaks a long line from her neck to her ass. Stephen stands in the doorway, a second water balloon in hand.

"Thought you could use a hand with this heat," he suggests, grinning disarmingly.

Comments

[nietie.livejournal.com]

Meep! Anger and passion at the same time: beautiful.

Awwwwwww *helps Nick with the washcloth to get Stephen's fever down*

*grins* Nice. Abby/Stephen are so cute.

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

I think that combination of emotions is one of the most powerful and beautiful that exists, and one of the most difficult to capture. Glad to hear it got somewhat transferred along via the drabble!

Nurse!Nick is just so damn cute in my head. (Also, I want an excuse to get him into a nurse's uniform for later...lol)

You know, usually I get pretty defensive of my 'ships, but Abby/Stephen is one I don't mind all that much (in small doses). I just really like the mental image of Stephen + water balloon. Maybe in that flimsy white shirt he's always wearing...:P

Thanks for the awesome comments!

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

Waah, that first one is so intense! And I love the image in the second one! We don't get much Abby/Stephen, but I think they're rather cute together *g*.

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them :D And I agree about Abby/Stephen. *nodnod*

[reggietate.livejournal.com]

Nice drabbles, especially the two Nick/Stephen's - I adore those two :-)

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

God I have so much love for them I have no idea what to do with it. *sigh* I am literally writing fic for those two every waking minute.

But I'm glad you like the products of my obsession! :D

[telperion-15.livejournal.com]

Very nice :) The second one is adorable!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! :D

[slashybits.livejournal.com]

It's a Tricky Thing - Eep! Oh the passion, anger or not! Poor angry conflicted Nick.

With You - Awwww I love the idea of Nick barely leaving Stephen's side.

Kerfuffle - I can just imagine the cheeky little boy grin on Stephen's face!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Angry conflicted Nick is really the best kind of Nick there is, imho. XD

I like to think that he'd stay right there the entire time. It just seems like a very Nick thing to do.

Stephen + cheeky lil boy grin = cutest damned thing evar. :D

Thanks for the comments!

[cordeliadelayne]

Ooh, love these! Love the emotion of the first and the sweetness of the second. And the third is really quite cute :D

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed them. ^^

[knitekat.livejournal.com]

Love them.. from the raw emotion in the first, to Nick not leaving Stephen's side in the second and Stephen having fun in the third.

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment!

I think they're all very different sides of the same two men, it was fun to write such different feeling fics.

[deinonychus-1.livejournal.com]

great drabbles. Eep to the first one, and yey for the hurt/comfort in th second. LOL to the last, although i think Abby may be about to kill Stephen.

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I might have to write a followup to that third one. :D I can just imagine that water fight...

And thanks for the comments on the other two!