one moment there was road beneath us (prompts post)

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I wrote today's essay for 14 Valentines on LGBTQ women. Brief TW for a mention of corrective rape (absolutely no description of it) and internalized homophobia.

And on that topic, it's my least favorite holiday tomorrow, but it's Galentine's Day today, and if you want to leave me prompts, I could try writing some ficlets. Because I'd like to show you some love, okay?

Fandoms I can currently write: XMFC, BTVS, DCU (pre-reboot, because I don't know what's going on atm), most things Tamora Pierce has written (or I could post a snippet from the Alex/Thom I'm working on), any book-related fandom you've ever heard me talk about or seen me write in, Leverage, potentially something else I've written in before (but not bandom).

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Parker still doesn't understand what Hardison means when he talks about the two of them getting "together". He's not talking about dating, not the shallow let's-see-how-long-we-can-make-small-talk-before-sex that she's seen people do. He seems to be talking about something more permanent and long-term, and he never ever makes her answer him, he just tells her that he wants that. "If and when you're ready." But she doesn't know what he wants, so how could she know what she wants?

He nearly dies on a job. It's worse than the one where he got buried alive because at least she could talk to him. This time he gets shot, and Eliot makes sure he doesn't die, and Parker has to stand there being useless.

She hates being useless. She can't even hold his hand to make it better because Eliot tells all of them not to crowd him. And her own hands are shaking too hard to help so Sophie has to do it.

When he wakes up though, she's right there. They've got him back in his own bed and he's healing, she knows that, but he looks really breakable. Parker is good at not breaking things unless she wants to, but she doesn't know what to say to him to make him stay in one piece.

"I don't like it when you do that," she says finally, and he smiles like she said something entirely different.

"I know," he says. "I'm gonna try not to do it again." He uncurls one of his hands, looking a little scared. Parker takes it, because she's learned enough about people and touching from Sophie to know that he wants her to.

"You'd better," she says, and settles in, getting ready to hold his hand for as long as he needs her to. Parker doesn't know what Hardison means when he talks about them, but maybe she's starting to get an idea.