A/N: Family politics - worse than office politics, I imagine. And thanks to JocelynMcC - I can't believe I forgot you on the previous thank you list, and everyone else who has come on board. I'll leave it there before it all gets too silly. x tromana
Title: Reading
Author: tromana
Rating: K+
Characters: Cho
Summary: Cho goes with a book like Lisbon shouting at Jane.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Notes: Inspired by the cliché list on jello-forever. Only sort-of busting it, I'm afraid.
Reading
They always seem to see Kimball Cho with a book.
What they don't notice is how rarely he actually turns a page.
They assume he does, because Cho goes with a book like salt and pepper, bread and butter, Lisbon and shouting at Jane.
He really spends most of his time observing, scheming, just thinking.
From over the top of his book, the team leave him in peace. Leave him to think his way through problems with the case, observe the interplay between members of the team. Consider ways of simply making the omnipresent tension more bearable for all five involved.
He's made several breakthroughs whilst allowing the words on the page to merge into one. With cases, that is, not with office politics. It relieves him that he's not physically - or emotionally - attracted to any of the others. He can appreciate that both Lisbon and Van Pelt are attractive women in many, many ways, no doubt. He is, however, quite happy to leave them to Jane and Rigsby respectively.
He has bigger fish to fry - especially with his mother breathing down his neck about marriage and the dangers of his career path.
One day, he'll actually finish chapter seven of the damn book. In the mean time, he has all the entertainment he needs.