Drabbles not written: fic where I yell this scene at Alexander Skarsgard. Pity.

FIVE
"Something Like The Right Way"
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (Tommy Lynley & Barbara Havers)



5. Something Like The Right Way
Lynley-verse, 20th August 2009

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Many people, in many different ways, had described Barbara Havers to him. "Scrappy ball of anger" was one way, "messy, tossed-aside bitch" was another. "Out-of-control", "a competent officer, if only she'd stick to the rules" - again and again, until he started to see her through other people's eyes.


Because, he knew, he was angry and she was there - his deliberate arm's length treatment of everyone and everything since Helen's death painted the one woman in the world - other than the one before - as someone he didn't know but only experienced through other people's hollow vitriol.


It was a Sunday when he saw her again - in the right way, as she unpacked a late breakfast of croissants (him) and bacon butties (her), prattling about their current case - and it was all he could do not to press himself against her in a silent, violent apology.

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Fin.

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Remember when Tommy was a hobo? Good times. Good, extremely smelly times.
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From: [identity profile] baggers.livejournal.com


WHY DOES MY COMPUTER HATE GIFs SO MUCH? I FEEL SO OPPRESSED!

(DO IIIIIIIIIIIT. NOTE THE + RATHER THAN A /. THAT WOULD BE WEIRD.)

From: [identity profile] piecesofalice.livejournal.com


Sir Urlaub feels oppressed for you. He'll go write another 500 euro coffee table book in anger.

(MAYBE I THOUGHT ABOUT BUYING IT WHAT OF IT)

(I ain't writing /, not even for you!)

From: [identity profile] baggers.livejournal.com


I SAID THAT WOULD BE WEIRD, OKAY.

ugh, why are your days off not my days off?

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Because my life sucks?

I am so tired I am falling asleep as I type. BUT I STAY UP, STILL

From: [identity profile] baggers.livejournal.com


*Carts self off to bed*

EIGHT HOURS OF CLASS TOMORROW, WTFFFFFFFF.
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