FIC: Sometimes

[knowyourlips.livejournal.com]

Title: Sometimes

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: {all unrequited} Ryan/Colin, Ryan/Greg, and slight Colin/Brad or Brad/Greg. lol. *sighs* I don't know ...

Summary: Do you ever miss Ryan?

Author's Notes: A very short, plotless fic. ;) Set during Green Screen. I don't know where it came from, and I apologise if the 'him's and 'he's get confusing. Had a really hard time with that, this time, for some reason -_-

 

 

"Do you ever miss Ryan?" Greg asks, suddenly, and Colin freezes. Brad doesn't look up; he picks at his thumbnail as casually as he can.

Colin studies Greg, warily.

"I - I hadn't thought about it," he lies, slowly, as he buys some time - and it's only because Greg's watching him so intently is it that he notices how quickly the older man is blinking.

So he simply waits.

"I guess," he continues, just as slowly, like he didn't lie in bed last night, curled up on his side, staring at the phone for the better part of an hour.

Trying to muster up the nerve to call Ryan.

"Sometimes," he amends, like he didn't automatically check for Ryan this morning.

He shrugs, screwing up his nose, like the realization that Ryan wasn't here - and wouldn't be here - hadn't hit him so hard he'd felt almost winded.

Greg cocks his head to the side, looking at him, thoughtfully, and he feels the tips of his ears burning.

But he thinks he understands.

"Do you?" he asks, and Greg smiles, a little sheepishly. "Yeah, a bit," he lies, like it wasn't Ryan's name he woke himself up groaning last night.

Brad chews on his thumbnail and finally raises his eyes, pretending only to be semi-interested in the conversation.

"Sometimes," Greg echoes, like it wasn't Ryan's face he pictured the last time he touched himself.

He shrugs then, too, with one shoulder - like he didn't spend almost half an hour under a cold shower this morning, trying to think of anything but Ryan Stiles.

"What about you?" Colin asks, turning to Brad with a tiny smile - and he looks back at him, genuinely surprised. "Me?" he checks, after a pause, and Colin shrugs. "Why not?" he says, still smiling, and Brad doesn't answer for a moment; he glances over at Greg - who dips his chin, interested.

He licks his lips, quickly, before answering.

"A little," he lies, like he's not ridiculously glad he hasn't seen Ryan in nearly two years.

Colin smiles again, sympathetically, so Brad adds, "Sometimes," like he doesn't dread both the day Ryan will eventually return, and the looks of utter, giddy joy he knows Colin and Greg will - altogether unsuccessfully - try to hide from Ryan and each other.

Greg glances down at his lap, smiling very faintly, and Colin studies the wall, an inscrutable expression on his face - and Brad reminds himself, grimly, that it's only inscrutable to him, and that Ryan would probably know exactly what's running through the Canadian's mind.

But he's not Ryan.

Comments

[indybaggins.livejournal.com]

Ghah. You already know this, but I really really love how you just get them like this. After reading this, I feel as if I should be missing Ryan :)

[knowyourlips.livejournal.com]

Well ... you should be :P

*gives you a random hug*

[stilmoch.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I love Brad's reaction. Lovelovelovelove it! This was great.

[leatharegee.livejournal.com]

That. Was brilliant. I was skeptical throughout...like they're *all* in love with Ryan? but then Brad's thoughts at the end and the very last paragraph *totally* brought it all together and it was AWESOME and the emotion totally carried through.

[anesthesiagirl.livejournal.com]

absolutely fantastic. for some reason this made me very sad though. but, that's a good thing too.....i love angsty fics.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ocelot_/]

I've been lurking around here for awhile now and I've tried to read everything of yours I can get my hands on. You're a brilliant writer. And I say this because not only is your style elegantly worded and still simple, but just the way you get the characters down.

^I don't know if that made sense in any way, but what I was trying to say was, you rock!! ^_^

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

I'm actually commenting on this nearly 12 hours later than I said I would.... I have no idea why. I read it, apparently got horribly distracted, twelves hours later laid down to go to bed, and realized I hadn't commmented on this. So yes, I actually got up and went on the computer and... wow I'm sad. ^_^

I love the difference between Colin's thoughts and Greg's thoughts. It's perfect. It's exactly how I would imagine both of those relationships.

Reading it through again... I'm quite fond of the "But he's not Ryan." Because that's what he is, isn't he? A replacement. I had this conversation with Leatharegee ages ago. Something about how (in Clay's world) Greg was with Ryan and now Greg is with Brad. And at the same time, Colin was with Ryan and then Colin ends up touring with Brad. So Brad ends up being the subsitute Ryan. Hmm... I think I may have just had a breakthrough. ^_^ Thank you.

Lovely fic.

[emilyfairy.livejournal.com]

This is kinda like an expansion on your drabble. I like how you showed Colin angsting over calling Ryan... And the line about Brad being ridiculously glad he hasn't seen Ryan for two years was really good. I don't know why I liked it, but I did.

You do an amazing job with analyzing these guys. :)

Emily :)

[leneebear.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I realise that it may be a bit strange me commenting on a drabble you wrote almost two years ago, but I read this and I feel the need to praise you for your awesomeness (and possibly entice you back to the WL fandom..)!! I've read pretty much all your fics (the way was actually the first WL slash story I ever read and got me hooked immediately!) and I absolutely adore the way you write and the way you capture everyone's charcters. This drabble remains to be one of my all-time favourite WL stories ever so I just bsically wanted to say thank you for writing it and all the others. You are awesomely gifted and I hope that you continue to share your gift with others even if it's not in this fandom. (Although it would be great if it was in this fandom....But I'm not gonna push ;) )