due South snippet: "Awareness"

[luzula]

Title: Awareness
Pairings: all combinations of Bob, Buck and Caroline
Rating: PG-13
Length: 300 words
Prompt: blush, crush
Summary: Buck sees something he can't un-see.
Notes: See, I actually used the theme of the challenge, and not just a word from it! Thanks to petra for a consultation on 1950's-appropriate language.

Also, may I just say how much I love the 300-word format? I usually feel hampered by the traditional drabble, but 300 words is just enough of a limitation that it makes me think about what needs to be included and what doesn't. Or maybe it's just that I'm used to this format.


Buck fled from the woodshed as quietly as he could. He didn't think they'd seen him. They'd been too busy for that, and with any luck, they wouldn't hear him either.

They'd been kissing against the far wall of the shed, Caroline's blouse partly unbuttoned, baring her pale curves, her smile mischievious as she leaned in to nip at Bob's neck. Buck had stood there frozen by the sight. Then Bob's hands had come up, tilting Caroline's head so that he could press her against the wall and kiss her deeply, and something flipped over in Buck's stomach. He'd turned and fled.

Buck felt his face heat up, blushing like a virgin (which he certainly wasn't, damn it). It was just a kiss, and it's not like he'd meant to see it.

So that was what Caroline looked like when she was all mussed up with kissing. Buck felt the tug of it--that crush he'd had on her, the one he'd done his best to get rid of because you just didn't think of your partner's soon-to-be wife that way.

But despite that, it wasn't the sight of Caroline that was to haunt him for days.

It was Bob. The way those big, tanned hands had held her face, the way he'd turned his head for the kiss. The line of his body pressed against hers.

Damn it, it was just because he'd seen him doing something like that--Buck had never--it had given him strange ideas, that was all. Bob was just his partner. He'd soon get his head on straight again.

But on the third day of their next patrol, Bob stripped and jumped into the river to wash. Buck turned away, flustered.

Good thing Bob was too busy fending off the mosquitoes to see it.

Comments

[exbex]

And here I didn't see that little twist coming. Although I think it was because I was so taken in by your wonderful use of language.

[luzula]

Hee, thanks! Although I did say it would be all combinations of Bob, Buck and Caroline. : )

[exbex]

So you did. But it was more fun to be surprised anyway :)

[akamine_chan]

Oh, that was lovely, Luz. Sweet and perfect and *pets Buck*

[luzula]

Thanks, Aka! : )

[brigantine]

Aw, poor Buck! I like the idea of Caroline being mischievous. :)

Of course now I've got this image in my brain of young naked!Bob flailing like a loony at the mosquitos. So due South. Hee.

[luzula]

Yeah, poor Buck.

Of course now I've got this image in my brain of young naked!Bob flailing like a loony at the mosquitos.

Hee. I'm not sorry!

[spuffyduds]

Aw, delightful and a little sad, thinking of him carrying on with crushes on BOTH of them. (Although maybe he gets to do something ABOUT it eventually...)

[luzula]

I am in favor of Bob/Buck/Caroline, yes! More of it should be written! Alas, in this snippet I think Bob is pretty much oblivious to what's going on with Buck. He's good at that.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Loony!YoungBob is just too TOO. What a sneaky thing you did there.

Poor Buck.

One has to believe that Young!Bob and Young!Buck were so incredibly dashing (though at times needing to be stood upwind of) Except when something was so out of control Turnbull could not outdo them in sheer OMFWTFOTCNPtreewhattree?

[luzula]

One has to believe that Young!Bob and Young!Buck were so incredibly dashing (though at times needing to be stood upwind of)

Hey, they bathe. Like, once a week by jumping into a river. *g* And yeah, I have a bit of a crush on young!Bob--it comes of writing so much in Caroline POV.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

They clean up well (and don't look too bad scruffy), but I'm sure as primates there were times they needed that river dunk days before it came.

I don't think I've actually found a picture back far enough for PreIgloo!Bob.

[luzula]

Heh, well, that kind of reminds me of the first time I met my boyfriend, actually. (Scruffy from days in the forest and needing to wash, that is. *g*)

I don't think I've actually found a picture back far enough for PreIgloo!Bob.

I know, it's so frustrating! I've been looking around, but haven't found any good photos of young Gordon Pinsent.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Sgt. Scott was really the earliest I found, thus older than Benton circa show.

[luzula]

Yeah, same here. I did find these two, where he's outdoors and has some stubble. They're from 1969, so he's 39 years old there. But ideally, I'd want something where he's 25 or so. *sigh*

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Yeah, I'd seen those-I've known guys that looked like that in their 20s, and my understanding is they're the ones that rarely get carded starting at 15- as long as they don't act like they should be.

As opposed to Paul Gross and Bono, who both still looked jailbait well past 25.

Benton must have been precious as a newly minted Mountie. At least until someone saw him haul in an unconscious 6'5" lumberjack. "I ran him to ground." The truck is found somewhere 1000 km away, on the other side of mountains. Of course, he'd have smelled fine, since there was a lake and all that pine.

[sage]

Oh! SO MUCH LOVE!!! ♥

[luzula]

Eee, thank you! I love them so much. &hearts

[thursdaynext_27]

Lovely. I'm glad you're having fun with this format *hugs Buck*

[luzula]

Thank you! *beams*

[mergatrude]

Awww! Poor Buck. \o/ due South's most neglected OT3!

[luzula]

They totally are! *smooshes them together*

[lamentables]

Poor Buck *g*

I'd never really contemplated this particular threesome. *contemplates some more*

[luzula]

Do contemplate it more! I wish more people would write them together. : )

[china_shop]

Awwwwww! I'm torn between sympathy and amusement. Poor Buck! <3

[luzula]

Poor Buck indeed, to have a crush on both of them! *wonders if something ever comes of it*