Choco_cherries Challenge: Rip Tide

[lirazel]

I haven no appropriate icon for this post.  It's kind of depressing.

Title: Rip Tide
Author: Lirazel (penny_lane_42 )
Rating: PG-13
Fandoms: Veronica Mars/Gilmore Girls
Pairings: Dick Casablancas/Louise Grant
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Relentless
Summary:  He isn't anything like the boys she's grown up with, straight-backed, clean-cut, buttoned-down boys bound for the Ivy League.
A/N: Remember Louise?  As in Louise and Madeleine who run around with Paris at Chilton?  Who says she doesn't deserve to have her own story?

He isn’t anything like the boys she’s grown up with, straight-backed, clean-cut, buttoned-down boys bound for the Ivy League.  They’ll sow their wild oats in college—join fraternities their great-great-grandfathers founded—then find a suitable girl, start working at Daddy’s firm, become productive members of society.  They bore her, but still, she’s eyed them since she was twelve, weighing potential, imagining her future with one or another of them because that’s the only future she’s allowed. 

He’s different.  Shaggy hair and shorts and a casual drag to his words.  He’s got as much money as any of the Chilton boys, but it’s new and he hasn’t got any connections—he doesn’t care.  He doesn’t think further than the next beer or when he’ll finally be reunited with his surfboard.  He could just as easily end up a beach bum in a shack as the next real-estate magnate.

He isn’t smooth when he hits on her; he wouldn’t know subtlety if it bit him in the ass.  And sure, maybe he’s crude and shallow and a jerk, but he makes her laugh, and he doesn’t care about protocol or tradition.    

They drive to the beach and stumble out into the sand, beer bottles in hand, and she giggles as he laughs out loud.  She’s the one that suggests skinny-dipping, but she orders him to turn around till she gets in the water.  She’s pretty sure he’s sneaking peeks anyway.

The water is freezing and he shouts curses out to the water and the sky and wishes he was back in California, because he sure as hell doesn’t belong here. 

You don’t either, he says, and his eyes light up like a little boy’s and he’s demanding that she go to California with him as soon as they graduate.

California, huh? 

 Okay.

Comments

[ava-leigh-fitz.livejournal.com]

There isn't nearly enough Louise or Madeleine fic out there so you've made me insanely happy with this. I could totally see her being with Dick, him endearing himself by his louche laid-back no Chilton ways.

I'll come back later with something more analytical, but just to let you know I saw, I read, I loved it.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I think Louise and Madeleine are highly entertaining, so I'm glad you agree. And exactly: Dick is so the anti-Chilton that I think he would be appealing to her.

I'm so glad you loved it, and I'll be looking forward to your analyticalness!