FAKE Ficlet: Holding Pattern

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Title: Holding Pattern

Fandom: FAKE

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ryo, mentions Dee, Diana, and Ted.

Rating: PG

Setting: Vol. 7, Act 20

Summary: It belatedly occurs to Ryo that he and Dee might have got their wires crossed.

Word Count: 430

Written For: Prompt #44: What are you waiting for? at dove_drabbles.

Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

Ryo doesn’t really know what they’re both waiting for. He’s fairly sure of the way Dee feels about him, and thanks to Diana’s words a few weeks ago he’s shed most of his own doubts; enough to spend that one amazing night with Dee at least.

That night should have been the start of something, taking their relationship to the next level, moving them forward from friends and work partners to being lovers, but somehow they seem to have stalled. In the almost three weeks since that night, things between them have just carried on as they were before, neither of them making a move or even mentioning what happened between them. It’s weird and rather unsettling; Ryo wishes he could figure it out.

Was that all Dee had wanted? Just to get him into bed? Have his way with him? Surely Dee wasn’t that shallow.

‘Was I not good enough?’

Ryo doesn’t want to consider that possibility, but now the idea has popped into his head it’s unavoidable. Dee had seemed to enjoy himself, but Ryo has no illusions about himself; that night had been his first time with a man and he knows he still has a lot to learn. But then, if he wasn’t disappointed, why hasn’t Dee said or done anything since?

‘Is he waiting for me to make the next move?’

The thought hits Ryo so suddenly that it literally stops him in his tracks. It seems obvious now it’s occurred to him; Dee doesn’t want to push him, he’s let Ryo take things at his own glacially slow pace up to this point, so now he’s probably waiting to see if Ryo is okay with what’s happened.

‘And I’ve been acting like nothing has changed. He must think I don’t want to be with him, that I’ve changed my mind, but that’s not true at all. So what exactly am I waiting for?’

He’s left things hanging between them way too long already. If he wants to be with Dee, and he does, Ryo realises it’s up to him to say or do something to make that clear. Otherwise the two of them are just going to stay stuck in this holding pattern, wasting precious time.

‘I’ll ask him to have dinner with me, maybe at that restaurant Ted was raving about. It’ll give us a chance to talk away from work, and then we can take things from there.’

Mind made up, Ryo sets out in search of his errant partner. He has a pretty good idea of where he might find him.

The End

Comments

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

OMG, YOU WROTE FAKE! I THINK I LOVE YOU!

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LOL! I write FAKE all the time, there's a ton of it here on my journal. Check out my FAKE Master List on my sidebar if you're interested.

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

*boggles and gifts you with chocolate*

Mind if I add you?

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I'd be happy for you to add me, there aren't enough FAKE fans around, we need to stick together. Might I add you back? Always good to have people to talk FAKE with!

*Settles down with chocolate to write mare FAKE fic*

P.S. I also welcome prompts - I stick them up over on fic_promptly then write them during Challenge and Contest weeks. Challenge week just started and I already picked a prompt for the first challenge, that's what I'll be writing in a bit. Most end up short, but there are a few longer ones.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delay! I typically take Thursdays off, when it comes to online.

:D

Adding you! I've only written a few FAKE drabs in my time, mostly because no one requests it for their birthdays. I'm inspired to remedy this tragedy now, however.

Hee!

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I hope I'll get to read some FAKE from you then, I mourn the fact that there's so little FAKE being written these days aside from my own. I came to the fandom late, after most other people had already moved on.

I've added you back =)

I seldom take time off from online because due to health issues there's not much else going on in my life. I post FAKE bits several times a week, plus Torchwood, Doctor Who, and occasional forays into other fandoms.

Have you seen the Back Stage Pass stories? Only the first two have been translated into English so far, sadly, but they're terrific. VERY x-rated though ;)

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

I offer birthday fics to my friends, so when yours rolls around, feel free to request FAKE.

:D

I haven't read much other manga besides FAKE, and I think I read that based on someone's recommendation. May have to check out Back Stage Pass!

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The Back Stage Pass stories ARE FAKE, Dee getting Ryo used to the physical side of their relationship, set in the months after Vol. 7 I would think. If you can't find the translated copies to read online (only the first two have been translated so far), I have scans I can email to you, but be warned, they are WAY more explicit than the main manga =D

Have you read the other FAKE stories, FAKE 2nd, FAKE Extra, and Like Like Love?

I shall have to remember that for next year, because I would definitely request FAKE =D

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

OMG

First of all, since I switched to Gmail for LJ, I suck at getting signed in and checking it, so I just now found your comment. *irons hands*

Second, I've never heard of anything "post-Fake" being done! All by Sanami Matoh, or fannish things?

*boggles*

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All by Sanami Matoh *nods* Like Like Love, FAKE Extra, and FAKE 2nd are available to read online at mangafox, but if you're in the US you might not be able to access that site. Another friend of mine had trouble with that, but found them online elsewhere.

The Back Stage Pass stories, I've got scans sent to me by a friend who has the books, but so far only the first two are translated. I could email the scans of those two to you though if you'd like.