merry christmas!

[manic-intent.livejournal.com]

Title: Company retreats
Pairing: Lucci x Paulie
Rating: PG13
Topic: Snow
Word Count: 300

This is, Paulie decides, the last time he is ever going on a ‘company retreat’. He appreciates Iceburg’s decision to ‘relax’, but three days of wintersports have been terribly boring for an inveterate gambler.

Besides, this is his first time seeing snow, and he hates it. Hates how his feet sink. Hates how it dampens his clothes and freezes him to the bone. Hates how it’s making him feel so treacherously warm, buried the-Gods-knew how deep. He can’t feel his right leg. He’s not sure that’s good.

And this had been stupidity of the monumental and unforgivable sort, at that. The bottle of vodka he’d sneaked off with to lubricate his self-pity had smashed somewhere in the crevasse. He’s going to die-

There’s a scratching, snuffling noise, so faint above him that Paulie thinks he’s imagining it until he hears it again. Digging. Paulie’s mouth is full of snow that melts into water and grit. He’s still choking on that when fingers close on his shoulders and haul him out. Brandy’s being poured down his throat, and whatever unyielding body he’s crushed against is uncommonly warm.

“Lucci?”

It’s a weak croak. Lucci ignores his flailing, instead pocketing the brandy and prodding at his right leg. Paulie winces. Lucci smirks, and even Hattori looks self-satisfied in its miniature coat. Bastards.

“You’re an idiot,” Hattori lectures, as the other shipwright picks him up.

“Stalkers,” Paulie retorts, warm from the brandy and warmer from the mocking embrace, and adds, petulantly, “Hate you both.”

He’s expecting a snort, at the least, or some sort of Hattori-relayed jibe. The kiss is hard, possessive, and doesn’t feel real. Lucci smirks at his stunned shock and looks up, for an easy way out of the crevasse.

Paulie stutters. “You… that… what…”

“You’re an idiot,” Hattori says, primly.

Comments

[travellyr.livejournal.com]

an invertebrate gambler.
I think you mean "inveterate," unless Paulie is a jellyfish-man.

It very nearly was the last time Paulie went anywhere, the idiot. X3;;;

AND HATTORI IN HIS COAT. :D :D

[manic-intent.livejournal.com]

woop. so much for sneaky-fast typing. ;3 I'm home for christmas and my devout christian family has some Views about homosexual people (let alone slash writing) that are fairly last century. Or this century, if you count current politics. Will correct :O

merry christmas!

[galael.livejournal.com]

Hattori and Lucci are such a perfect team 8D

I shall only notice how they follewed him with a bottle of alcohol at the ready, waiting for him to fall from sulking to much...