Bonus AU drabbles. If you fancy any of them, feel free to expand on their universes.


1. High School AU (obligatory in every fandom, ok?)

"What about Tommy?" Sophia says while flipping pages of their yearbook.

Lindy can't hide her astonishment.

"Tommy?" She says incredulously. "As in Tommy Calligan? Ben's Tommy? Tommy the Giraffe?"

"Yes, that Tommy." Sophia rolls her eyes. "Fine, he's a bit too tall for... regular humans but you gotta admit he's gorgeous."

"Sophia, this is such a bad idea, I don't even know where to start."

"He's single. George says he broke up with what's-her-face you had in Mr Taylor's science class. Apparently the girl had a ten-year plan that didn't really include him. Med school and all that."

Lindy drops on the bed beside her and groans, "Are you listening to me? It's a no on Tommy Calligan."

"You should see the way he looks at you..."

This is hopeless.

"I just broke up with Ben! I'm not going to our senior prom with his best friend!"

"You broke up six months ago! I still can't believe he told the principle you hacked the school records. Incroyable."

"To be fair I did hack them." Lindy admits. "And stop with the French already."

"He's a traitor. You're lucky they couldn't prove anything. And I'm practising for my voyage to Paris." Sophia answers with a dramatic hand gesture.

Lindy sighs and takes the yearbook. It's opened on Tommy Calligan's stupid face. She quickly closes it.

"He's... too tall. No heels are high enough for that."

Sophia looks at her like she's completely nuts.

"Can we just all go together? Please? I'm sure Yeager won't mind."

"Fine but we're not done talking about Tommy."

Lindy shakes her head. This won't end well.


2. The cop and the hacker AU

"What are you still doing here, Lindy?" She hears a familiar voice behind her. "You do know you're not required to sleep in here, right?"

"Very funny, Ben. There's a few files I need to check."

Ben turns her chair around and looks at her carefully.

"What you need is sleep. Go home. We'll catch him."

"Oh please, we could arrest him right now if we wanted. He's completely reckless. It's amazing we didn't flag his profile sooner."

"Reckless?" Ben is confused. "How is Bubonic reckless..."

Lindy's eyes widen. Oh no...

"Wait a second," Ben smirks. "You were talking about Calligan, weren't you?"

"He's a menace to the society," Lindy states with as much conviction as she can muster. It only makes Ben laugh more.

"Oh my God, Lindy. You have a crush on this guy."

"What? No, of course not." Lindy protests weakly. She can already feel herself blush.

"Come on, I've known you my whole life. I know that look. You're totally into him!"

Lindy looks around and whispers, "Just don't tell Catherine."


3. Tommy meets Lindy first AU

Right on cue there she is. Completely lost in music, unaware of anything around her, moving in a way that makes him feel guilty and excited at the same time. This isn't going to be a routine undercover job. He knew that the second he saw her file.

"Ok, Calligan, this was your idea. Get your ass over there and do your job," he thinks.

Lindy is drowning in swirling lights, eyes closed, arms and hips moving enticingly... Now standing next to her, Tommy is speechless. He knows he is staring, he knows how creepy he must seem, but it feels like he lost ability to walk and his brain shut down. Trouble is the only thing coming to his mind. That is until he realises a pair of dark annoyed eyes are staring back at him. Worse than trouble.

"Hi," he says in what he hopes to be his most charming voice. "I'm Tommy".

"Not interested," is Lindy's immediate reply followed by a step back.

"No, wait, I'm sorry. I just... I saw you dancing and... " There it is again. Brain completely melting. "You're a great dancer," he finishes lamely.

She looks amused. Clearly his weak attempt at conversation isn't as bad as it seems.

"I'm not giving dance classes. Bye, Tommy."

Clearly he's an idiot.


4. Sara never disappeared AU

He hears a commotion in the corridor. There's a young, very angry looking woman, half dragging a younger girl. She spots him looking at them and she quickly moves closer before he has a chance to escape.

"You're a cop, right?" She asks immediately.

"Detective Calligan. Good morning. How may I help you today?" He answers sarcastically.

She looks at him a bit sheepishly now.

"Sorry, I'm just... My sister here," she pushes the annoyed girl between them, "is being cyber stalked."

"Lindy likes to make big deal out of everything. The camera was on once but apparently it means all the Internet pervs are watching me."

"It is a big deal, Sara!" Lindy throws her hands up in frustration. "Tell her, Detective Calligan!"

"It is a big deal, Sara," he repeats a bit amused. "And call me Tommy."

He likes her already. How the hell did that happen?

"Fine. I'm in mortal danger. I asked Lindy to trace the creep but apparently her fancy MIT education didn't include hacking."

MIT? Gorgeous, spunky and intelligent? He's in love.

"Told you I'm not hacking for you, Sara." Lindy adds automatically. They clearly had this conversation several times already. "We let Cyber Crimes Unit deal with a cyber crime, ok? I'm sure the nice detective here will help us out."

Oh yeah, he's sure as well.


5. Ben didn't die AU

He agrees to a beer after work. He figures there's never going to be a perfect moment to tell Ben the truth so he might just as well do it now. They sit in their favourite pub and Tommy feels his courage falter.

"I feel like I haven't seen you in ages." Ben comments after a moment. "We used to go for beers more often. What's going on with you?"

"Oh you know, the usual. I'm totally in love with your ex? current? girlfriend and I've been in love with her ever since I saw her in that club where by the way you have totally cock blocked me. Thanks for that, buddy."

Ok, he obviously can't say that out loud. He settles on a shrug and mutters "nothing."

Ben doesn't look convinced but he lets it go.

"I still can't believe how lucky we got with that Flirtual case. Can you imagine how many more people he could've killed if we didn't catch him?"

Tommy squirms uncomfortably in his chair. It's now or never.

"Listen, Ben. There's actually something-"

"You think I should call her? Ask her out?" Ben interrupts him. "I know you don't like her but..."

He'll tell him another time.


6. Pre-series troublemaker!Tommy for that tumblr user who had this brilliant idea first

He sneaks into his room through the open window. It's long past his curfew. He's pretty sure his parents aren't asleep but he still wants to avoid the usual fight his behaviour provokes these days, so he's trying to be as quiet as possible. He can hear hushed voices coming from the kitchen and he can't help his curiosity.

Shit, it sounds like Ben's father is here too.

"I have no idea what to do any more," he hears his own father saying. "We've tried setting stricter rules, we tried curfew, we tried simply talking to him. He just won't listen to us."

"He's 16. It's just a rebellious phase, he'll grow out of it." Ben's father is trying to sound optimistic.

"You really think so? Because it's getting worse every day. He's just so angry all the time. I can't watch him waste his life like that."

"I don't know but sending him away to that school you've found would do more harm than good."

Oh he knows the place they're talking about. And there's no way in hell he's gonna get himself shipped off to some military school. His mind is already frantically trying to come up with a plan. You can always run away from home.

"Maybe you can talk to him?" He never heard such desperation in his father's voice. " Or I don't know... Take him to the morgue, show him a victim of a drunk driver or something?"

Ben's father lets out a long laugh at that.

"You want me to traumatise your kid for life?"

"How did you do it? You have no problems with Ben."

Ah, here we go. The obligatory "why can't he be more like Ben" argument. The goldenboy Ben with perfect grades and perfect future plans. Frankly if the guy wasn't his best friend, he would absolutely hate his guts.

"Sean, they're different kids, that's all..."

"Maybe we made a mistake asking for your help when he stole that car. Maybe juvie would have taught him the lesson better than any of us. We had to take a loan to pay for the damages. Did you know that?"

Tommy didn't know that either.

"Come on, you know you did the right thing. He's not a bad kid. He's just... lost."

He's heard enough. He goes back to his room and quietly closes the door behind him. Now what?


7. Bonus - New parents!Tindy drabble that was asked on tumblr.

"Stop freaking out," Lindy says with a heavy sigh.

"I'm not freaking out, what are you talking about?" Tommy replies while playing with the thermostat for the umpteenth time in the last 5 minutes. "It's too cold now, right? It feels too cold. Oh God, what if she gets sick?"

"It's not too cold," Lindy rolls her eyes. "Just hold her for a second, I left my bag in the hallway."

"Yeah, sure," Tommy carefully takes his new baby daughter from her mother's arms. "She's so tiny."

"Newborns usually are," Lindy says with a small laugh. If she's being honest she's probably just as terrified as Tommy but one of them needs to keep their cool and so far she's pretty sure it won't be him.

"Wait, Lindy!" Tommy whispers with sudden urgency. "What if she starts crying? Oh my God, what if I drop her?!"

Lindy shakes her head and looks at them with a bemused expression. It's only once she's out of the room that she bursts out laughing.