Those Moments
Challenge: After Midnight
Trevelyan stood on a balcony in East Berlin, listening to the bell chimes. Midnight - the middle of the night held its own secrets. A new day relieved the worn out and replaced dirt with freshness.
Alec breathed the cold January air and wished he was as innocent as the day was young. As hours would pass, yet another day would become filled with death, deceit, lies and unfulfilled longing. But this moment after midnight held all that was salvageable from the wreckage. It spoke of friendship and content.
A gust of wind chilled him. Fate usually paved another way.
A Mirage
Challenge:
After Midnight
Pairing: Alec Trevelyan/other (m/m)
Warning:
slash reference
Mercilessly the seconds ticked away to 00:00. The alarm clock woke Alec from his death-like slumber. The Russian man beside him stirred but slept on.
Drinking in the features of this night's companion in the moonlight, he once more gave in to the delusion of James lying there - James, his brother-in-arms, who was not only putting friend before mission but returning Alec's love.
The mirage shattered. Alec's fingers caressed a body not quite athletic enough and with missing scars. He untangled himself and dressed.
Trevelyan left at five past twelve. He did not want to be late for Archangel'sk.
Frailty
They had always been winners when they teamed: Alec Trevelyan, 006, and James Bond, 007, colleagues and friends. Nothing could ever stop them, no one outsmart them. Every joint mission was a success.
Invincible, that's how James had felt since jumping the hover dam. Every movement Alec made complemented his own - actions so smooth as if carried out by a single person shared over two bodies.
A shortened countdown of ten seconds, a bullet and his best friend's corpse had sent James crashing down to harsh reality. Saving the world again; and the good boys didn't always make it.