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I have so much other fic I need to finish right now (and it doesn't help that my muse is deciding I want to write Alesha/James (Law and Order: UK not Martha and Lee but Martha and hot guy who was gay in The State Within) and Sarah/Derek (Sarah Connor Chronicles)), but I felt really guilty for not finishing this.

Series: A Work In Progress. Or: How Reese Learned To Stop Worrying and Move in With Crews.
Title: Step 4: Furniture is Bought. Or: Crews & Reese are learning how to be normal.
Rating: PG
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff
Characters & Pairings: Crews/Reese, Ted
Summary: Slightly AU now, could either be read as everything this season between Charlie and Dani gets resolved, or nothing past Re-Entry happened. It does exactly what it says on the tin. This story will chart the move from partners to living together for Crews & Reese.
Notes: I am so sorry this took so long to update, just after the news about Sarah Shahi, I was disappointed, and my muse decided to leave. Sorry. This scene was what actually made me want to write this story so it is funny it has taken the longest. There will probably only be one more part, which will hopefully be updated much sooner.


A Work In Progress. Or: How Reese Learned To Stop Worrying and Move in With Crews.

Step 4: Furniture is Bought. Or: Crews & Reese are learning how to be normal.



“You know I feel silly having a security system.” He says out of nowhere. They’re sitting on his kitchen island sharing a pint of sherbet on a Sunday afternoon. It is a ridiculously normal thing to do, and when he thought that he was oddly reassured to see her gun resting next to her thigh.

“Well you're not getting rid of it.” She isn’t wearing one of his shirts. She’s wearing a pair of his boxers and her own undershirt. He kind of likes that she doesn’t give into the cliché of his shirt.

He refrains from smiling at her matter of fact tone. "No, Reese, I'm not. It's just-" He stops and frowns.

She takes a spoonful of banana sherbet waiting for him.

In that moment he realizes, they've gotten good at this. They're good partners, excellent partners, and they're good at this too, the intimate talk at the end of the day, the eating together, the moving around and with each other, the whole damn thing. He smiles. "I don't have anything worth taking."

Reese shrugs, "So get some things.”

Ted wanders into the kitchen and as he reaches the fridge responds with: "Clutter."

She raises an eyebrow in question. "Clutter? Crews, either be Zen, or don't be, it is getting far too confusing."

"Oh you like it. I know you do."

"No I don't."

"Yes you-"

"Crews, we are not five."

"Well-"

"Crews." She cut him off at the pass.

Charlie smiled smugly behind his spoon.

Ted turned to Dani before leaving them alone in the kitchen. "I'd be careful if I were you, he might flip and decide to stuff the house."

Reese's lips twitched in amusement as Charlie called out after Ted: "I'm right here you know."

As Reese began to clear up their mid-afternoon snack so she could go back to ravishing him, Charlie said, "Tomorrow we're taking your car from the station."

Reese raised her eyebrows in question. They were supposed to be covert about their relationship, but it wasn't unheard of for partners to drive each other home, and Crews had a sparkle in his eye she really didn't feel like dampening. "Fine."

Crews grinned.


***


"So..."

"So."

Reese opens her arms in question and raises her eyebrows rising and her lips pursing simultaneously.

"I thought we could go furniture shopping."

She nodded in her long suffering way that said they had obviously passed the point of rational conversation and stepped out in front of him into the floor of couches, chairs, tables, beds, and shelves. He followed after her.

After five minutes of wandering she turned on him, "You want me to help don't you?"

He grinned. To be honest he was surprised she managed to last so long.

Reese rolled her eyes. "Fine." She placed her hands on her hips and looked around the store. "Okay let's start with the completely unfurnished rooms." She looked at him.

"Yeah, of course."

She headed straight for a group of couches.

As he sat back on a possible candidate and studied the way she viewed each piece of furniture he smiled as he realized that she was inspecting furniture for his house like she read each of their suspects in an interrogation.

***


In the car back to the house she said. "You know, I've never bought furniture before."

He looked over at her. She really could've fooled him. She had been thorough in that store, really, really unflinchingly good at furnishing his house; he liked that. She was part of his house now, irrevocably part of him.

"After moving out, every where I lived was pre-furnished at least with the basics. I've never really gotten anything more."

He was quiet. He had learned that usually in response to her revelations it was good to stay quiet, just to be there, and never, ever to express an ounce of pity, empathy could be allowed, but pity would earn you a nicely placed bullet. As they moved past the edge of the city and up into the hills, he said across the space between them, "I did. When Jen and I first got the house, we went... not to IKEA, I don't think there were IKEAs then." He frowned, and dismissed the detail in his story, "We had to buy the cheapest things in the store. Now..."

"Now..." She parrots.

He frowns. It's annoying when she teases him with techniques she picked up from him. "We got nice stuff." He finally said.

Reese tilts her head as she stares at the road ahead, before finally saying. "Yeah, we did."

Crews knows better to teaser about the we, but he thinks he’ll like having sex with Dani on their couch.


Again, sorry about the wait. The next (probably the penultimate if not the last) chapter should not take as long and will hopefully be up within the week.
Mood:: 'creative' creative
Music:: Brutality - Black Box Recorder
There are 16 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] citosol.livejournal.com at 09:01pm on 24/03/2009
You know I'm loving your fic, don't you?
Oh yes, even if it isn't a Tideese fic! LOL

I cannot wait for the next (and I hope NOT the last) chapter! Especially if you are going to write down Charlie and Dani having sex on *their* couch! ;D
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 10:37pm on 24/03/2009
Maybe I'm secretly plotting to bring you back over to Creese. *shifty eyes*

I really want to write smut for them, but I'm not sure if I know how to do it for these two. Anyway I hope even without smut I continue to please you. :D
 
posted by [identity profile] citosol.livejournal.com at 10:43pm on 24/03/2009
LOL!
But You know, I kinda *am* still Creese, deep inside...only I cannot write them till Dani is with Tidwell...
But I DO live Tideese, of course! Hmm...it's a little bit intricate, I know.

Oh, I have a news about "when" we will know is life is going to be renewed or not: go here http://citosol.livejournal.com/29702.html

...it's a long story but I'm sure he's the real Donal Logue
:)

And don't worry, I'm sure I'll love your story as you planned it!
 
posted by [identity profile] sound-of-bells.livejournal.com at 10:01pm on 24/03/2009
As he sat back on a possible candidate and studied the way she viewed each piece of furniture he smiled as he realized that she was inspecting furniture for his house like she read each of their suspects in an interrogation.

That was a great line. : )
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 10:34pm on 24/03/2009
You have no idea how much I love that you like that line because I had to rework it several times, and I'm glad the effort paid off.

Thank you for reading.
 
posted by [identity profile] impish-dragon.livejournal.com at 11:18pm on 24/03/2009
Great update. I like the idea of them furniture shopping and her approaching it like she does an interrogation. Looking forward to more. More being several chapters of course. *snicker*
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 07:38pm on 25/03/2009
Thank you.
 
posted by [identity profile] grimorie.livejournal.com at 03:29pm on 25/03/2009
Furniture shopping! I love moments like these! I believe [livejournal.com profile] penknife would call this a curtainfic (http://penknife.livejournal.com/389375.html#cutid1)!:D And I love curtain fics done right, which this is. I love that its... its domestic and yet it's not. Because of how its done and who they are.

It's not a wonder I love this sentence: he realized that she was inspecting furniture for his house like she read each of their suspects in an interrogation.
!

(BTW, when you're done, poke me or jab me with a stick so I can add this in the [livejournal.com profile] pers_pineapple newsletter!)
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 07:40pm on 25/03/2009
I'm glad I kept them in character. And thank you for the link, I've seen the idea around but I never knew it actually had a trope. I am so glad people are liking that sentence 'cause I did actually have to work it, and that it paid off is fantastic.

(I will. I'm a complete comment whore and will pimp myself anywhere. :) )
 
posted by [identity profile] ikeepfishinmytv.livejournal.com at 09:52pm on 31/03/2009
:D
Yummy
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 08:02am on 14/04/2009
Thanks.
 
posted by [identity profile] starjelly24.livejournal.com at 06:31am on 10/04/2009
That was a great story!

 
posted by [identity profile] davidsgirl8414.livejournal.com at 11:11pm on 10/04/2009
love it all so think these two are great together
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 08:02am on 14/04/2009
Thank you. I love these two together.
 
posted by [identity profile] usf5678.livejournal.com at 05:52am on 14/04/2009
Me likey! Wait, no, I LOVE the story! I can so picture all this happening. : )
 
posted by [identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com at 08:03am on 14/04/2009
I'm glad you could picture it. I'm terrified of writing these characters ooc, so thanks.

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