step by step
An NCIS fic collection
by mew-tsubaki
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imagine: miscellany 33—surprise (this post on the sideblog: 776699124410204160/ parknight-imagines-miscellany-33-surprise)
tags: established!Parknight
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Knight's got an eye—and an ear—for details. It's why she's been a fabulous REACT member and a fabulous NCIS Special Agent overall.
But when she honks outside Parker's building one afternoon off, her groggy grump wakes up fully, and his hazel eyes are alight with childlike glee, as if it's him making that same purchase all those decades ago. "You didn't," Parker breathes, his hands hovering outside the passenger door.
Knight has the windows cracked, because it's a warm spring day, and she leans across the driver's console. "You're right—I didn't." She leans further and opens his door from the inside, waits to continue once he's in, "But, if you search hard enough, you can find almost anyone willing to rent their stuff online. Including one first-gen red Miata. We've got it for the day, and it costs nothing extra if you wanna call this one 'Red Bandit, Jr.'"
Parker does that scoff–chuckle of his as he shakes his head, amazed by her. "You said Corvettes were cooler," he points out. He leans in towards her and raises his eyebrows.
"Lots of these cars fall somewhere on the scale of 'cool' and 'cute,' so…I can see the charms of the Miata," she admits. And she can, because Parker's got his own cool and cute qualities, too—although she keeps that thought to herself, since comparing your lover to a sports car can easily blow either way.
"Glad to see my good taste is rubbing off on you."
"You do have excellent taste," she agrees. She points to herself with a cheeky little wink, but Parker doesn't mind her boldness and in fact rewards it with a kiss. When they break apart, she passes him a pair of sunglasses she picked up at the store this morning. "So, where to, Princess?"
"'Princess'?"
"Well, duh. Your prince arrived in a mighty steed to take you anywhere for the day. Oh! Almost forgot." Knight presses the specific button, and the retractable top whirs to life, peeling back and letting in the sun's warmth. "Can't drive a car like this and not feel the wind in your hair, yeah?" …she says, and her hand finds its way to his silvery, salt-and-pepper locks, because running her fingers through his hair is practically a pastime for her, but Alden Parker also burns bright red in too much sun, so she'll put that roof back up the moment they lose enough cloud cover.
But Parker doesn't seem to mind. He slips on the sunglasses, buckles up, and slings an arm behind Knight's headrest. "Then let's go, anywhere the wind takes us."
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I've kept this detail noted for a while, bc it's all the way back from s20e18, when Parker mentioned his fondness for Miatas (everyone was talking fav convertibles). So, inspo happened, tho I just noted my idea at the time, hadn't written it yet. So yeah, romantic fluff!
-mew! :3c