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In an AU where Dean is NOT a murderer (accidental or otherwise), his trip to Wisconsin with Murphy goes in a completely different direction.
===Her hands shake as she steps out into the bedroom, robe partially covering the black outfit she had put on especially for this occasion. Dressing for sex? This really is a lesbian way to fuck. She’s usually in whatever mismatched underwear she wore with a flannel and tee overtop. She freezes when she hears him say, “Hey” and her reply is flat, but still throaty. God, he probably thinks it’s sexy and really she’s about to lose her mind – in an anxiety way.
She seems reluctant when she comes out of the bathroom. Maybe she’s changed her mind. But they’re here, aren’t they? And they’ve spent most of their time together since her birthday. It was so easy, almost too easy, to go from working on this case together to just hanging out as a family. And now they’re together. Alone. His lunch feels like it’s at the top of his esophagus but he manages to squeak out a plea from his seat on the bed – “C’mere?”
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Dean admitted what he found attractive about Gayle and Rio admitted he's not ever going to let her have full control of her operation. Everything feels kind of final. Maybe it's time to confront a few feelings.
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“Remind me again why I’m giving you a cut, now that I’m printing and washing?”His laugh is loud and sudden and he has the decency to look down, ostensibly to wash the dishes more thoroughly. “S’easy. So I don’t turn you in.”
An her laugh pop out as quick as mine. “I seeeeee….so it’s a straight-up protection racket now? At least you admit it.” Her chuckles die down a lil, so I move back behind her, pullin her hips back toward me again.
“You know I gotchu,” he says holding me close from behind. “But think of it like a retainer,” I’m so glad he can’t see my eyes roll as he echoes Fitzpatrick’s words. Do all Detroit criminals go to the same trade school or something?
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- Part 13 of How Brio could actually work...
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s3e10 thoughts and feelings with a little bit between-the-scenes. Rio wasn't just in her house to give her a ride...in his car.
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Between the booze and the music, I can even look out the window to his usual seat on the picnic table and it doesn’t hurt that much. A little twinge, but then happier memories: standing at this window to get revenge on Dean, seeing Rio helping Kenny with math, the first time I stood up to him on the back porch, and offering to make him a sandwich before he fucked me brainless on my marital bed. Mmm…maybe a “nap”…I don’t need a vibrator if I let myself open up some of the other memories I’ve got neatly stashed and labeled in the closet of my mind.Taking another sip, I turn and startle isn’t a good enough word to describe what happens in my body when I hear his voice over the music. It’s a full-body stop, all systems pause, seeing him in the doorway. My mind plays back his question about celebrating, and the chipper, “Nothing!” is the worst I’ve done at lying since before I fixed the stop sign.
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- Part 12 of How Brio could actually work...
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With a little bit of s3 eps 8 & 9, Beth finds that her non-verbal style of communicating with Rio comes into play with Dean as well.
He's just bad at it.
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“Was a real long…rough day today,” he says, voice rumbling against my ribcage. “Seein you in the park was a nice break.” He lifts his head up and smiles. “An seein you dressed like that …lifted my…” his head tilts to the side, “spirits.”Her eyes roll again as I lay my head back down. Hear her voice through her chest more than outta her mouth as she say, “I’m glad you liked it. I try to be helpful.”
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- Part 11 of How Brio could actually work...
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Between the scenes of episode 8, we all saw the look on Beth's face when she asked if they could "just go back...?" and the way it made Rio lick his lips.
I guess he's nearly ready to forgive her.
And as they get back together...yet again...they're both surprised to realize how well they know the other by now.===
His lower hand gathers my skirt again and goes directly for my thigh-high. This time he feels all the way around the edge before I feel his head shake and a characteristic “psshhhh” comes out of his mouth. “Was hopin fer a garter belt, ma. Woulda been so hot…”
Her laugh is bitter, an I ain’t blame her. She broke as a joke an I got everythin she owns, she wastes no time remindin me. “Yeah, well if you’d left me my underwear drawer, I’d have obliged. But somehow I seem to be devoid of most of my clothing, and new things are expensive.”
“Was kinda hopin you’d show up naked,”
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- Part 10 of How Brio could actually work...
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Rio's still pissed, but he gives Beth one last chance to try to repair.
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Combines s3e6 and s3e7 with scenes from both and a between-scenes interlude. References ch.17 from Total Money Makeover
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“So instead a havin a conversation, you bring an idiot with a gun to what – assassinate me? In my own bar? Durin open hours?”“How am I supposed to have a conversation with you when you block my number?” He flinches at that and looks back out his side window.
“Turnabout fair play,” he says, breath fog making a small circle on the glass in front of him. “Sides, never stopped ya before. You seem t’always get holda me.”
I remember blocking his number last year around the time of the Fall Festival – the last time I cut things off. Before… “Not when you went to Legoland and the shit hit the fan.”
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- Part 9 of How Brio could actually work...
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Both Beth and Rio get educated by their "ex"es.
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The look on Dean’s face. He was so willing to bet my life on the idea that Rio can even understand what love is, when I know for a fact that he has no idea.Dean showed his hand.
I told him Rio would kill me if he cut the plate. Telling me you don’t kill something you love at the moment that he did a thing which will result in my death?
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- Part 8 of How Brio could actually work...
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Back in the height of their first fling -- when things were good -- Rio told Beth to watch for the text code "1017" and when she saw it to dress up formal and come to a certain hotel downtown.
Things went pear-shaped fast and he never had a chance to send the code.
After their brief encounters at the bar and the Paper Porcupine, Rio is ready to have Beth to himself for an extended period of time.
If certain key players see them together in public, then that's all the better.
They have a lot to bang out...talk out... you know what I mean.
The entire weekday 'weekend' is filled with ups and downs, but when it comes to a balance of power between these two, it's never certain who will come out on top.
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- Part 7 of How Brio could actually work...
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A small interlude in the aftermath of their encounter in the paper shop: Rio (and a little Beth) tries to get the feelings straight.
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Everything I’ve been holding in leaves my body at once when the silhouette at the picnic table is short and stocky, instead of long and angular. He hears and gives me a smirk.
“Think fast, little lady,” he whisper-calls as he tosses me a small lump. I catch the flip-phone one-handed and spin on my heel to leave without even acknowledging him. I was above him before, certainly, I will be again.
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- Part 6 of How Brio could actually work...
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Rio's gotten the info about the "buncha bitches" who are movin funny money, and he wants Beth to show him how it's done.
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“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”Her face all wide-eyes and straight-lipped the way she do when she lies. I reach into my back pocket for the proof.
“Oh no?” Placin the ten on the table, her eyes on it tell me everythin but I gotta see how this plays. “Cuz yer friend says you do.”I repeat my request.
Ain’t many people I give the chance to make me ask twice.
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- Part 5 of How Brio could actually work...
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Beth decides to drop the bomb on Rio -- and neither of them is prepared for the reaction.
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"You couldn afford it."An that makes me think about how much I would pay for her. I take her in, from the bar, up her chest, to her face. Thinkin bout her worth to me – as a partner, as a babymama, as the only thing I’ve wanted in a long time – an realizin I ain’t ready to pay out on this.
Losin the baby an her in the space of five minutes is just too much for my brain to compute. There’s no value I can place on it.
An then like a ray of light the same color as her hair, she asks what would happen if she had the cash.
I look at the bartender wiping down glasses tryin to not hear our conversation. When he makes eye contact, I say, “You’re closed.”
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- Part 4 of How Brio could actually work...
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Beth can't believe her lie worked -- now she has to make her lie work.
Rio has his own suspicions, but for now he has to work with the information he's been given.
---Frustrated after a morning of bad experiences and even worse ideas, I get myself together and make a quick Target run for a few things. Contrary to popular opinion, there is such a thing, and I’m back before lunch. Who am I kidding? It’s probably only because I’m zombie-me, with my mind 80% focused on a way out of this that doesn’t end in death.
Gruesome images of the results of Rio’s rage fill my visual field as I bring the shopping up the front walk.
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- Part 3 of How Brio could actually work...
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Rio's got a lot on his mind as he sees Elizabeth for the first time after the shooting. Even though they planned it, it's hard to get over being shot -- and she didn't entirely stick to the plan then, or afterwards.
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- Part 2 of How Brio could actually work...
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Original title: Slow Down, Children At Play
A long smut-with-talking that follows the trail of all the times Rio pushes Beth's hair out of her face with his pinky during season 2. Goes between-scenes and gives internal dialogue; never changes actual events we see onscreen, but seeks to provide a different angle for those actions. For now, it will head into Season 3, for as long as I can keep it going.Series
- Part 1 of How Brio could actually work...
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In the stunning (long, drawn-out) conclusion to Principles of Gestalt, New Myf continues her press tour with Clifton, Grantchester decides upon trial by fire, nothing goes according to anyone's plan, and eventually our heroes have to consider whether the Checquy will allow them to share a common fate.
All chapter headings are measuring time from the last part -- "Closure:Teddy"
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- Part 7 of Principles of Gestalt
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Teddy's left in Brussels to sort this mess out and it takes several days. What he discovers follows him home and potentially threatens Myfanwy, so despite not having slept for days, he goes into protect-mode. But NewMyf may not necessarily need that from Gestalt anymore -- or at least less than she did when she was OldMyf.
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Thousands of memories flash by: near misses, just-abouts, soooooo closes, with each body, but more often than not with Teddy, and then the one incredible moment when she was mine – and the torturous week following where it was clear she was not.
Her hair is up against Teddy’s cheek and her full weight is against him. Robert is speeding back to the flat, trying to get someplace safe. She looks up at me, eyes full of conflicting emotions, lips and chin trembling. “I don’t think you could have expected that, Gestalt – I don’t think you screwed up.” She swallows and sniffs. “You’re allowed to be… to be a person…and have dates and let your guard down for one second.”
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- Part 6 of Principles of Gestalt
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Myfanwy finally returns to work at the Checquy -- and Conrad sends her on her first political foray with Eliza as security detail. They are sharing a hotel suite, but sorry, there's more than one bed.
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Later that morning, Alex just happens to be stretching his legs as Myfanwy walks down the hall to see Ingrid. “Oi, Rook, found yer way back, dintcha?” She smiles and I tuck her hair behind her right ear, exposing just a bit of the undercut. Eliza comes out of the ladies’ room and walks alongside. “I heard what Conrad said about keeping this assignment pretty,” and I roll her eyes so deeply they twinge a little.Series
- Part 5 of Principles of Gestalt
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There are a few "in the archives" fics out here, but I really wanted to smut it up. Unfortunately, some feelings and internal thoughts worked their way in, so it's not completely irredeemable.
Progress only if you truly want to read a twinwich.
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In an instant, Teddy twists his wrist and has mine in his hand now, bringing it up behind me and moving my hip against him. I’m pinned against the cupboards to my side and pressed close to his body and his nose hovers close to mine, breathing each other’s breath. It’s delicious and my heart races. I move against his hand slightly more and lean in to his ear. Just as Alex is about to say something, I whisper, “You seem like you know what you want right now, Gestalt.”It’s entirely possible that I intentionally licked Teddy’s ear on that last syllable.
Gestalt takes a sharp, unison, inhale.
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It's been a blissful interlude, but since Myfanwy is obviously not leaving, she needs to consider returning to work. After all, the entire purpose of that shopping spree was to have something more suitable to wear when she has her audience with the new King.
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“Thomas, glad you decided to come in. Have you seen the model?” He gestures at his dream of a new building which everyone has been guided around if they’ve walked in his office.“Not in-depth, sir, but I’ve heard about it.” She shows her first hint of nervousness. “I wasn’t sure it was still viable after the Danilov incident, sir?”
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- Part 4 of Principles of Gestalt
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NewMyf is appalled at her wardrobe and invites Eliza shopping but doesn't get what she asked for. Robert has a lot of ground to regain, but he does his best to make inroads.
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Robert’s voice is barely a whisper as I focus on keeping him from stammering. “L --listen, I asked you to forgive me for how brutal I was in the week after the bridge. I know it will take a while, but you asked me here and I’m here because this me is available.” I look up with Robert’s plaintive, earnest expression. Eliza’s staring into a mirror, waiting for the end of this. “Anything said to you comes from the whole of me, but, but I know it’s hard to separate the bodies from their actions."Series
- Part 3 of Principles of Gestalt