Choco_cherries: Live Wire

[lirazel]

Yay for the return of choco_cherries!

Title: Live Wire
Author: Lirazel (penny_lane_42)
Fandoms: Heroes/Veronica Mars
Pairing: Elle Bishop/Logan Echolls
Word Count: 253
Prompt: Cold
Rating: PG
Summary:   After a while, he stops trying to see someone else when he looks at her (she hopeswishespretends).

After a while, he stops trying to see someone else when he looks at her (she hopeswishespretends).  He still doesn’t like New York: no place to surf, it rains too much, and the hotel they’re living in is too full of celebrities who recognize him.  But he isn’t homesick: she doubts there’s any place he could actually miss (they’re alike in that way, at least). 

 She doesn’t tell him what she can do, what it is she’s running from.  He doesn’t tell her what he’s done, what it is he’s running to.  They have fun together, an almost normal kind of fun (even if there’s a wrongness lurking everywhere, in every word, every touch, and mostly in the silences they can’t avoid), and she can (almost) pretend she’s a regular girl with a regular boyfriend living a regular life.  Almost.

Thing is, he’s always going to be looking over his shoulder for a different girl; she’s never going to be able to give him what he needs.  She tells herself that that doesn’t really matter—it’s all in fun.  But she knows (so does he).  

When he isn’t snarking or drinking or screwing, he’s brooding.

“What’s wrong?” she asks, and maybe it’s the first time she’s ever really cared enough to ask that question (it scares her that she actually means it).

 “I’m cold,” he says, with an ironic twist to his voice (it’s her favorite thing about him).

She smiles, slowly, lets the electricity dance at her fingertips.  “I can fix that.”

Comments

[everything-inme.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I just found this, and I... am in love. I saw the pairing and then saw who wrote it and nearly had a heart attack because so few people would ever be able to pull them off, but you totally did and I just... GAH! I love this. I love the subtext and the thoughts in parenthesis and the fact that Logan looks for Veronica in a girl who's totally different and yet still the same. I love that Elle keeps playing pretend even when she knows that it won't last.

And I especially love THAT LAST LINE. Good God! This is going in my memories. You win. ♥

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you so much! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it that much--I had such fun writing it: those two are so incredibly twisted that I couldn't resist. I'm also so glad that everything worked for you, and I'm incredibly flattered that you would like it enough to add it your memories.

Again, thank you so much for your kind words. They totally made my day!