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This is a kinkmeme. You may just be familiar with the concept.
If not: explicit, adult content; read at your own risk, and keep the kids -- wherever that arbitrary line is in your jurisdiction -- out. Also, please wear your seatbelt.
RULES
1. When prompting, use the comment field to jot down character, pairing, or moresome first, then the kink(s), then any other prompt elements; after a line break, you can elaborate via words, images, or links. Like so?

2. When responding, use the subject line for the original prompt (plus your title, if you have one).
3. All kinks are welcome -- sexual, emotional, conceptual, likewise all gen, het, slash, bitextual and other fic from crack to drama.
4. Anon is encouraged but up to you.
5. Mark all spoilers, mmkay?
6. Go for it!
REMINDERS
7. With a view to some prompts: Spell Check is your BFF. Don't make Alt!Astrid cry, please?
8. A kinkmeme's more than a promptmeme. Here's
eliade's non-definitive and non-exhaustive (but pretty illustrative) List of Fan-fiction Kinks, Tropes, Clichés, and Fetishes.
9. Could you -- in the subject line or the first line of the body of text -- draw attention to the fact there's rape or non-con, major character death, underage, and/or graphic violence in your response (which is the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) policy).
If not: explicit, adult content; read at your own risk, and keep the kids -- wherever that arbitrary line is in your jurisdiction -- out. Also, please wear your seatbelt.
RULES
1. When prompting, use the comment field to jot down character, pairing, or moresome first, then the kink(s), then any other prompt elements; after a line break, you can elaborate via words, images, or links. Like so?

2. When responding, use the subject line for the original prompt (plus your title, if you have one).
3. All kinks are welcome -- sexual, emotional, conceptual, likewise all gen, het, slash, bitextual and other fic from crack to drama.
4. Anon is encouraged but up to you.
5. Mark all spoilers, mmkay?
6. Go for it!
REMINDERS
7. With a view to some prompts: Spell Check is your BFF. Don't make Alt!Astrid cry, please?
8. A kinkmeme's more than a promptmeme. Here's
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9. Could you -- in the subject line or the first line of the body of text -- draw attention to the fact there's rape or non-con, major character death, underage, and/or graphic violence in your response (which is the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) policy).
"call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"
Date: 2011-04-17 12:12 pm (UTC)Astrid lets out a soft breath she didn't even know she'd been holding. "Sir," she says and doesn't make it a question.
He holds her eyes. "Agent Farnsworth. About the retrieval of Agent Dunham." Which clearly is one way of putting it -- into the official FBI report. "I apologize for having shouldered you with the responsibility of taking care of me in addition to overseeing the experiment."
"Oh, no" she says, and she can't quite keep the emotion out of her voice; she's just not like that, "it wasn't an imposition, it was --" more like a revelation. His large, elegant hand wrapped in hers. The stunning sweetness of his smile. Such a powerful personality at all times; to have all of it directed at her? "a nice thing, really." Astrid closes her eyes and internalizes her wince. Really, Miss Farnsworth? 'A nice thing?'
His voice is soft, makes her open them again. "Well, I appreciate it anyway, appreciate that you went out of your way to make me...comfortable."
Comfort is what she aimed for (what she aims for all the time with them, because she loves them and they need it), but it's not all he felt, then. She remembers his vision, she's read the report. Astrid doesn't need drugs to know that perceiving -- beyond mere mortality -- your actual death is not an experience a human being wants to make. "I'm just glad you're okay."
"I am, thanks to you. Farnsworth --" and now he hesitates; in all her time with Philipp Broyles, she's never once seen him do that. "It was a very intense experience, and I have since read up on the substance. You're probably what kept me sane." Now his lips actually curl into a smile she's never seen before either: not as luminous and innocent as the one before but gentle and self-deprecating, making something in her chest feel tight and too-loose at once. "Not that it seemed so at the moment, I imagine."
He looks down at the table. "Is it safe to touch this?"
She almost laughs, giddy for no reason, no reason at all. "Yes, yes the table surface is fine."
When Broyles puts his hands down and leans in, he's carefully leaving the table between them. But the distance to her across to the side where she's standing is much smaller now. "I won't forget this."
She meets his eyes. Maybe, just maybe, he isn't just talking about her doing her job.
"Me neither," she says and doesn't look away.
And the smile he gives her is almost as luminous as the one that very day, if less innocent than promising.
Re: "call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylam
Date: 2011-04-18 12:49 am (UTC)Re: "call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylam
Date: 2011-04-18 04:48 am (UTC)Re: "call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylam
Date: 2011-04-18 03:18 pm (UTC)Re: "call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylam
Date: 2011-04-18 04:39 pm (UTC)Re: "call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylam
Date: 2011-04-18 09:23 pm (UTC)Re: "call for hands of above to lean on", Broyles/Astrid, SPOILERS FOR 3x19 "Lysergic Acid Diethylam
Date: 2012-01-07 08:16 pm (UTC)