V Fic: Expendable (Dale/Erica)

[ozmissage]

Title: Expendable
Pairing: Dale/Erica
Rating: PG-13
Words: 452
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: Major spoilers for 1x01.
A/N: This is allmollivanders fault for encouraging my wacky shipping notions. Given that this was written in roughly fifteen minutes and after one whole episode of show...it’s definitely not my masterwork. But if you like crack, it’s got that in spades. ;)

“And the woman, Erica, have you made any progress with her?”

Dale was careful to keep his face expressionless. Anna had a way of reading him, of reading all of them, and he didn’t want her to get too close to the truth.

“Some. She trusts me… I’m her go-to guy. I fixed her sink last week. Mr. Dependable. That’s something, right?”

The pipe burst soaking his shirt right down to his human skin, she gave him one of her son’s shirts to change into, there was something stupid printed on the front, and she had laughed, brushed a strand of blonde hair out of her eyes…

Dale blinked to focus himself and turned his attention back to Anna. She was watching him carefully, her face neutral and gentle…she knew.

“Do not get attached to your assignment. You must understand that every one of them is expendable. When the time comes for you to kill her you can not hesitate. You know what will happen if you disobey me?”

“That looks good on you, very…hip,” Erica teased.

“You picked the most embarrassing shirt you could find, didn’t you?”

She nodded, a mischievous glint in her eyes. “It was between this one and the one with the half-naked lady he bought to piss me off. I’m sorry…here I’ll get another one.”

He caught her wrist, it was warm, and he could feel her pulse steady under his fingers. He held on for too long and she smiled. Something inside of him was begging for it…

“Yes. I understand.”

He tugged her to him, kissed her hesitantly as this human man would, and she kissed him back, her mouth tangy from her beer, and then somehow she was in his lap, pressed against him and he could hear her heart beating.

She pulled away breathing heavily and he wrapped his arms around her back to keep her still.

“You can’t tell anyone about this.”

She was so serious, almost stern and if her fingers hadn’t been rubbing softly against the back of his neck he would have thought she wanted him to stop.

“These lips…completely sealed.”

She rolled her eyes at him and he laughed as he pulled her towards him again.

“You can go now. It won’t be much longer; we’ll be on Earth in two days time. Remember what I said. They are all expendable.”

He watched her sleeping afterwards. She was so vulnerable, he could have snapped her neck and been done with it, but he couldn’t. He slipped an arm around her waist and felt the sudden warmth as she snuggled closer to him.

“All of them,” he echoed as Anna’s image flickered and disappeared from his living room.

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I have no shame, encouraging you to write and post this :)

Expendable is a good word for how he looked at her when he had to kill her... like he couldn't let himself think about what he was doing... like there could be a really hot hate!sex fic in the future.

Will stop feeding you plot bunnies ;) Ty for writing this!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

That's cause he's secretly in love with her, but he doesn't want Anna to kill him...*nods*

Um...I think it's possible that I'm loosing my mind. ;)

See if I could write convincing sex I would totally do that. Hell, I might give it a shot anyway...OMG, what is wrong with me?

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Because nobody really wants to kill EM, not even a hydrogen bomb!

You never know until you try...

[krilymcc.livejournal.com]

I love you for this.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thank you so much! It really is all mollivanders fault for encouraging my weird shipping tendencies. ;)

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is shiny! ♥ You have Anna down so well - and Dale and Erica... Oh wait. That's all of them. :P

Here via mollivanders. I hear she talked you into writing some Castle/V fic? We have a fair few fandoms in common too. (Firefly, Dollhouse, BtVS, Leverage, Torchwood, V, and I've dabbled in Lost and Eastwick.) Friends?

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

She did, there will be Anna/Castle fic very soon. ;)

Definitely, friend away! And yay, for another Dollhouse fan in particular, I don't have nearly enough Dollhouse fans to squee with. :D

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

:)

Shiny! I'm looking forward to it.

*adds*

I just made a comm for v_fic also so if you're interested in that...

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

Anna/Castle? I hope I'm here when you post that (and not on vacation)

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

totally awesome!!!!!!!

I have this idea for a V fanfic, but since it's so new.. I'm still scared. Haven't started writing it yet.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

I say go for it! I actually kind of love writing in fandoms when they're just starting out, there's so much room to play around in before the canon gets too dense. :)

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

I actually made a LOT of Kara (smallville) fanfiction... until I got banned from Kryptonsite. Now I only post fics on LiveJournal (sometimes on adultfanfiction with 0 reviews) , but since V is so raw... I'll give it a shot right now!

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh yay. yay yay yay yay.

This is fantastic.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

(And I love your icon!)

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

(Thanks shemp_o2stk made it

[tokenblkgirl.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant. I loved their scenes together, even when the guy had dead meat written all over him. And this fic just made me all shippy and stuff, especially now that he's the enemy and everything. :)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I adore Tudyk and Mitchell so much, I couldn't not ship them together. Even if he is evil. And trying to kill her. ;)

[moon-blitz.livejournal.com]

I was actually toying with this pairing earlier, so glad to see someone attempted it! Great fic!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[missy-useless.livejournal.com]

I think this is a first: I have never read fanfic for a show after watching only one episode. Anyway, I absolutely loved this. I really like how you spliced the two scenes together, and the pairing is just awesome - he's evil and tried to kill her and yes, I want this! Guh! Wonderful work, thank you so much for writing this!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

I think I was so excited by Elizabeth Mitchell on my television again that I couldn't bear to wait for a second episode to write fic. Plus Tudyk! And they are so very screwed up, it has the potential to be epic. ;)

[hyacinthian.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you wrote this! :)

I ship them SO. HARD. It's really not even funny anymore. And I'm an OTP kind of gal. They just had so much chemistry; Erica/Father Jack is just blegh to me. BLEGH. But I digress.

Fabulous job! Hope you write more.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

I think they have pretty amazing chemistry. I'm sure I'll revist them again at some point. It's hard not to ship Eliabeth Mitchell and Alan Tudyk. :D

[aurilly.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I had to read it because I'm such a V junkie all of a sudden. This was so good! I love love loved the structure. I love the idea of Anna knowing. Anna's awesome like that. And I loved the little split-up scene of regular life between Erica and Dale. Very sexy. They totally had chemistry. Great job! :)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you!

I think Anna is all-knowing. Morena is totally terrifying me on this show. ;)