A Perspective On A Partnership
By Tricki
Hi everyone! Just a little Lynley/Havers oneshot that's been sitting on my hard disk rotting for I don't know how long. I thought it deserved to be read.
Hope you enjoy and I'd really appreciate your reviews.
He watched them bickering and couldn't decide whether to laugh or tear his hair out in frustration.
It was moments like these that the Superintendent regretted partnering them. Did he ever really expect them to get along? To be the team he knew they could be? In all honesty he hadn't, but he had to try. At the very least he owed it to Barbara.
With Lynley's compassion and versatility and Havers' street smarts and life experience he knew they could be great. They were Yin and Yang, Venn diagrams – even though they were different, part of them overlapped. That was what it came down to: they were part of each other.
He looked up at them again. They were still at it. He couldn't hear them, had no idea what their current (and it certainly wasn't their first) war was about, but he knew it had to be something stupid. Some stupid sparring or some joke that had escalated beyond brush off point.
He removed his glasses and dropped them onto his desk, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
What in God's name was he thinking? He glanced up again, wondering if he should step in.
Give them one more minute, maybe they'll sort it out. He thought to himself. He glanced around the room, pondering who would see if it came to blows – Havers would be the one throwing punches, of course. Lynley's upbringing, if nothing else, would keep him restrained. You had to hand it to the aristocracy...
He looked back to them and – much to his surprise – saw a flicker of a smile on Havers' lips. Lynley was speaking again, smiling warmly, his eyes alight. Her gaze flickered onto his face for a moment, and then it dropped to the floor. Webberly could tell she was fighting a grin, even from his remote position. What could he have said to cause such a drastic change in her demeanour?
Another sentence, his fingers lightly but intimately brushing the outside of her wrist – good Lord, exactly what kind of monster had he created? – and she had lost her battle. She met his eyes unselfconsciously with a fierce grin.
At that moment Superintendent Malcolm Webberly was quite sure that partnering Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers was one of the best and quite possibly the worst decisions of his life.
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