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Title: and straight on till morning
Author: [livejournal.com profile] hoosierbitch
Rating: R
Pairing: Elizabeth/Neal/Peter
Notes: For [livejournal.com profile] isabeau. Just a short little ficlet - her prompt was the pairing and 'comfort.'
Summary: It’s not that he's never had lovers who made him feel safe before.

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It’s not that he's never had lovers who made him feel safe before. Because Kate had done that.

Kate had made love to him and fucked him and helped him figure out that there was a difference between the two. Taught him to laugh as their bodies slid together, that it was okay to smile, okay to grimace, okay to lose himself and come back gasping and confused.

He’s had scores of lovers - marks and johns and anyone with enough power to be dangerous - and he’d played them like instruments. Composed melodies out of lies and then conducted sex like symphonies on their skin. He's fucked and sucked and stolen his way into beds and bodies and then out again.

But he’s never had lovers like this.

Not like Peter, who growls in his sleep and forces morning-breath kisses on him ‘just because,’ Peter who can hold him down but never does, Peter who likes to watch him in the kitchen or walking the dog or reading a book almost as much as he likes to watch him when he’s hard and naked and hungry.

Never had a lover like El. Never even known anyone like her. Fierce and confident and – and comfortable.

El hums during sex. Absentmindedly, like she’s putting together a to-do list for work in the morning and checking things off one by one – clean up from dinner, call Tracey, suck Neal’s dick, put clothes in the dryer. He’s never had anyone make him a part of their life like that before.

It’s not that the lovemaking is different, with Peter and El, in the new bed that they bought so it would be big enough for all three of them (and also Satch who sneaks in during storms). Not the fucking or the kisses or the mornings after, but the way Peter makes fun of his clothes but stops by the dry-cleaners without complaint, or how El always seems to know when he needs a hug or a slow-dance or a nice bottle of wine.

It’s not the lovemaking. It’s that he’s in love.

That, he’s never had before.

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Date: 2010-08-29 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lionessvalenti.livejournal.com
Things that make me jump: seeing my name in a fanfic. I especially like that it's wedged in between "dinner" and "suck Neal's dick". :D

That out of the way, AWWWW! This is so sweet and adorable. *snuggles Neal*

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Date: 2010-08-29 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boosauce.livejournal.com
This was super sweet <3

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Date: 2010-08-29 09:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elrhiarhodan
How absolutely delicious...better than the finest wine, the rarest chocolate.

Brava...good to see you!

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Date: 2010-08-29 09:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] usakeh.livejournal.com
This is beautiful.

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Date: 2010-08-29 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] photoash.livejournal.com
Lovely little ficlet :) Glad to see you finding some time to write! I hope your back is feeling a bit better!! *HUGS*

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Date: 2010-08-29 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jrosemary.livejournal.com
Marvelous! I loved everything about this fic--Peter's morning breath, El's to-do list, and the fact that Neal has fallen so deeply in love. :)

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Date: 2010-08-29 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] penguingal.livejournal.com
/smishes this fic/

/smishes you/

/smishes Peter, El, and Neal while I'm at it/

YAY!

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Date: 2010-08-29 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daria234.livejournal.com
Wonderful fic :) Especially love the detail about El humming. And Peter who is annoying even if loving :)

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Date: 2010-08-30 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soldierly.livejournal.com
omg ;~; this was adorably sweet, bb.

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Date: 2010-08-30 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] isabeau.livejournal.com
<3333333 so much awesome.

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Date: 2010-08-30 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com
I want to hug this fic and cuddle it and slow dance with it. Such lovely details, especially El humming and Peter picking up the dry cleaning. ♥

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Date: 2010-08-30 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com
But he’s never had lovers like this.

Not like Peter, who growls in his sleep and forces morning-breath kisses on him ‘just because,’ Peter who can hold him down but never does, Peter who likes to watch him in the kitchen or walking the dog or reading a book almost as much as he likes to watch him when he’s hard and naked and hungry.

Never had a lover like El. Never even known anyone like her. Fierce and confident and – and comfortable.



That's my new happy place in those words.

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Date: 2010-08-30 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emmademarais.livejournal.com
I'm so glad you published this! All of the fic in slashchat is lovely, but this was an exceptional piece that deserved to be seen by many more eyes. /applauds/

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Date: 2010-08-30 08:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misura.livejournal.com
Only Neal could be this ... sweet and innocent and adorable, and yet a little jaded at the same time, after all the lovers he's had already.

Delightful.

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Date: 2010-08-31 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] afiawri.livejournal.com
I love this fic and how completely sweet it is from beginning to end. And how it's the little things and the fine distinctions that make all the differnce. You write so beautifully.

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Date: 2010-09-01 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Beautiful....

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Date: 2010-09-02 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabidchild67.livejournal.com
This was beautiful. I really admire all your writing. The little throwaway lines just kill: "El hums during sex." *loves*

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Date: 2010-09-03 04:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] influ-bad-ence.livejournal.com
Awww just awwwwwwwww

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