Title: My Perfect Stranger
Rating: PG
Spoilers: none
Prompt: #38/trust
Words: 108
Summary: For a cop, Kevin trusts easily.
Author's Notes: written for lost_in_108 and because I have Nathan Fillion on the brain.
There's a boyish innocence in the way he trusts her, wearing it like a badge of honor on his sleeve. His eyes twinkle with an inherent faith in her, that's more than once made her breathe catch. (She allows the guilt to burn as she swallows it whole.)
He touches her in the belief that she will always be his, with fingers gliding over the light dusting of freckles on her shoulder as he pushes into her.
"I love you, Monica."
She takes it from him, heart outstretched with greed.
The next day, lips curve with quiet hope as he kneels before her. His voice shakes.
"Marry me?"