Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town; Doctor Tim/Elli
Fandom: Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
Pairing: Doctor Tim/Elli
Author: rhianwen_24601
Theme Set: Alpha
Rating: PG-13 at the very heaviest. Most are G or light PG.
Disclaimer: I do not own the concept of Harvest Moon, because I never could have predicted how freaking addictive it could be to own an imaginary farm.
Notes: In no particular chronological order; disjointed, in a way that very much resembles flipping through a badly-organized photo album.
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#01 - Comfort
He can’t help but smile whenever he sees her teddy bear collection, arranged neatly on the shelf in her bedroom, and imagines her snuggling down amid blankets and pillows, hugging one of her cuddly little toys blissfully to her cheek.
#02 - Kiss
She thinks she might come to like the taste of red wine, if she can taste it on him, his lips and tongue gently teasing and meltingly sweet on hers.
#03 - Soft
Elli never slams doors when she’s angry; when he remembers a childhood filled with bitter arguments between two parents who assumed their tiny son long since asleep, he thinks he couldn’t have asked for a better housemate.
#04 - Pain
After an entire day enduring a moody female, Tim leads his usually sweet-natured assistant upstairs without a word and rubs gentle circles over her abdomen until she’s purring and half asleep; when she asks drowsily how he knew it was that time of the month, he just smiles.
#05 - Potatoes
“Doctor, I don’t understand why you hate French fries so much; I thought you were always encouraging people to eat more vegetables.”
#06 - Rain
The only thing she likes more than being out in the rain, wandering the streets until her hair and clothes are plastered to her skin, is his face when she whirls back into the Clinic, dripping wet and laughing.
#07 - Chocolate
Sometimes he still catches her sneaking bits of chocolate at her desk, but when she flashes that smile at him, holds the box out, asks sweetly if he’d like some, he can’t bring himself to scold her, and somehow finds himself breaking off a piece.
#08 - Happiness
As an adolescent who was going to change the world, he assumed happiness synonymous with victory; as she senses him watching her work and looks up with a warm smile, he wonders if it isn’t closer to contentment.
#09 - Telephone
When they got the telephone installed at the clinic for the emergency line, he sat her down and explained, very slowly and carefully, how to work it - but drat it, he was so entirely sweet about it that she couldn’t even be angry!
#10 - Ears
She is well acquainted with the old superstition that, when your ears are ringing, it means someone is talking about you, and she wonders why hers always start ringing on rainy Wednesday mornings when he goes to see Carter.
#11 - Name
He doesn’t mind that she and Ellen and Carter are the only ones in town who ever use his real name, although sometimes he wishes she would do it more.
#12 - Sensual
She loves his eyes, dark and contrasting sharply with skin just on the darker side of pale; loves his voice, low and quiet and refined; loves the clean scent of his soap mixed with the sweetbitter herbal clinging to him almost constantly; loves the feel of his hand resting gently on her shoulder, or brushing the hair out of her eyes, or smoothing down a bandage after the shots that she hates almost as much as Stu does; wonders if it makes her a bit sick that thinking about the taste of his skin beneath her lips can send her scurrying for a cold shower in the middle of the day.
#13 - Death
He knows that she has seen a lot of death for someone so young and naïve and soft-hearted, and that’s why he almost regrets exposing her to more - he knows the effect it has had on him, and he doesn’t want that for her, wants her to stay sweet and cheerful and hopeful.
#14 - Sex
The first time, it is a week before the wedding, after the temptation of privacy to do as they like and nothing between them but a paper-thin wall becomes overwhelming; and it was worth waiting years for, this gentle, hesitant, nearly reverent touch that she never expected from him, and it would have been worth waiting seven more days, but she’s still glad they did.
#15 - Touch
“It isn’t fair,” she announces sleepily, brushing her hand over his cheek and resting hers on his shoulder, “that your skin is softer than mine.”
#16 - Weakness
She remembers the day that she stopped being uncomfortable and afraid in his presence and started to actually like him; when she turned away to give the proud parents some privacy with their newborn child, she thought she might have seen a glimmer of moisture in his eyes as he watched the young family with a wistful smile.
#17 - Tears
If she thought it was hard to see him angry, it was nothing compared to the time she saw him cry.
#18 - Speed
Their wedding trip takes them to a faraway city, and when he lets her drive the gleaming black brand-new rental car back to the hotel after dinner - out of necessity; it’s hard to exercise moderation when experiencing great joy or great despair - he doesn’t know whether to be amused or terrified that his prim, demure Elli is a closet speed-demon.
#19 - Wind
Furious and blushing, she scrambles to smooth her skirts back down again, and, delicately averting his eyes, he laughs.
#20 - Freedom
He told her once that a life devoid of all obligation is empty and devoid of meaning, and she started to argue; then she thought of Stu and Grandma - and him - and didn’t, but gave the rambunctious little boy and the sweet, frail old woman extra-big hugs next visit.
#21 - Life
It’s difficult, but he doesn’t laugh when this owl-eyed, shaggy-haired scrap that he calls his nurse tells him, solemn and reverent and hesitant, that she thinks it’s amazing and noble that he dedicates his life to fighting for other people’s; instead, he tells her coolly that she’s still very young, and she’ll learn eventually to stop romanticizing everything.
#22 - Jealousy
It was a long time before he felt comfortable enough to joke with her and laugh when she blushed at his teasing, and somehow it rubs him the wrong way to hear her sparkling laugh mingle with that new farmer’s minutes after they first met.
#23 - Hands
When she offers in adorable and adoring concern to massage an ankle that he twisted while out hiking, and the feel of those tiny, soft, surprisingly strong hands of hers working away make him wonder ashamedly what other muscles he could pull, he thinks resignedly that he might never get used to being allowed to think these things.
#24 - Taste
There are very, very few men that she would ever ask for fashion advice; he just happens to be all of them.
#25 - Devotion
From fondness, it was a small step to devotion, not only to the job that is gradually becoming her life, but to the man who chose to trust her with it.
#26 - Forever
Neither of them is the sort that likes to keep their options open; now that they’re together, they’ll stay that way.
#27 - Blood
He remembers the day that she really earned his trust and respect; if she could see her own baby brother lying unconscious in the middle of Rose Square, trampled by a runaway horse and bleeding badly, and maintain a cool head and quick reflexes, she could handle a lot more than he had been trusting to her.
#28 - Sickness
Sometimes, when she gets the flu and can’t sleep for coughing and aching and fever, he’ll sit up with her, talking to her to keep her mind off of it, no matter how hard she tries to get him back to bed.
#29 - Melody
He doesn’t realize, until after he has asked her to stop singing while she works because it distracts him, how much he likes it.
#30 - Star
He teased her when he caught her wishing on a star, but after she stuck her tongue out at him and left in a huff, he turned back to the window and made a wish of his own.
#31 - Home
The first time she absently referred to the clinic as home, he was irrationally thrilled and a little envious, until he realized with a start that it had become home to him, too.
#32 - Confusion
Once, in the delirium of fever, he called her by a different girl’s name, but it was okay, because he asked her piteously, a rare slip of dignity, to go find Elli.
#33 - Fear
It was a long time before she found the courage to ask herself what might follow from devotion.
#34 - Lightning/Thunder
He’s almost able to forget that he thinks of her as more than a child when she creeps hesitantly into his room and admits, face buried in his shoulder, that she’s afraid of the storm.
#35 - Bonds
When he overhears his sweet-natured little seventeen-year old nurse happily turn down a party invitation in favour of spending Saturday night studying, he has a flashback to his own teen years, and wonders if they have more in common than he thought; when he spends all evening distracting her by chatting because he’s spent the day locked in his own thoughts and misses other people, she wonders it, too.
#36 - Market
“Well, it’s not fair that you can haggle better than I can,” he replies, cautiously wrapping his arms around her and wondering if it would be right to stroke her hair soothingly as she climbs closer into his lap.
#37 - Technology
A few times now, he’s suggested getting a computer in at the Clinic, just so that she wouldn’t have to spend her days buried in hard-copy files; and every time, she wrinkles her nose and reminds him that she’s no good with electronics - remember the telephone, after all.
#38 - Gift
“Please open it now?” she entreats, and she helps him pull off the ribbon and wrapping, and ends up opening most of it herself.
#39 - Smile
The first time he saw her smile, sweet and beaming and a little nervous, he thought, they have given me a pretty little child for an assistant.
#40 - Innocence
When he catches her climbing out of the Hot Spa, dripping wet and demanding angrily who’s run off with her towel, she wonders, baffled, why he’s staring at her like that.
#41 - Completion
He’s been giving her those looks all evening, but she’s not going to bed until she finishes her jigsaw puzzle.
#42 - Clouds
She almost hates to interrupt him when she follows him secretly to Mother’s Hill with a surprise picnic, and finds him staring up at the sky, trying to find fluffy white shapes.
#43 - Sky
In eight years, this is the first time they’ve been up to Goddess Peak for the Full Moon Festival; by the end of the night, both of them are generally ignoring the full moon to stare, fascinated, at the night sky, dotted with stars, soft and warm as black velvet.
#44 - Heaven
It wasn’t quite heaven, laying the tiny infant girl in a crib filled with fluffy yellow blankets and kissing her softly goodnight on the forehead, because even amid the rapture of new motherhood, she could feel a small, subtle shadow stealing across her happiness; she knew by his eyes that something was wrong.
#45 - Hell
It wasn’t quite hell, laying the tiny infant girl in a far narrower and colder bed, the beautiful christening gown lovingly made by a proud grandmother a shroud in the end, kissing her softly goodbye on the forehead, because his hands were gently at her shoulders, and she could feel him trembling where his arm touched her back, and she remembered that there were still reasons to go on living.
#46 - Sun
He likes to make love in the pale, cool sunlight of early morning, when a light kiss against her forehead to stir her from sleep leads to more heated and insistent caresses, and both of them spend the rest of the day with perma-smiles.
#47 - Moon
Her favourite time is in the evening, with the moonlight spilling in through the window, when they can snuggle up afterwards, delightfully exhausted, or spend a light-hearted, playful hour splashing about in the bath; most of the time, to compromise, they do both.
#48 - Waves
The sound of the ocean, associated already in her mind with childhood and splashing in the water, and with the endless summers of her teens and stretching out on a beach blanket with Mary, studying a medical textbook while Mary read fairytales and Karen and Ann and Popuri splashed in the water; now associated ever after with the red rose of “love, perfect and triumphant” and the man that she has admired deeply, both from nearby and afar, for years.
#49 - Hair
The first time she saw his hair, her fingers itched to comb it down for him, and she wondered if this city-boy had paid good money to have it look that way; now, she loves it and would be devastated if he figured out how to work a comb.
#50 - Supernova
She’s always been glad that they didn’t fall instantly and intensely in love, because nothing that burns that bright and that hot lasts for long; and even if that isn’t true for everyone, he doesn’t bother correcting her, because it’s true for them, and he’s always been glad too.
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Pairing: Doctor Tim/Elli
Author: rhianwen_24601
Theme Set: Alpha
Rating: PG-13 at the very heaviest. Most are G or light PG.
Disclaimer: I do not own the concept of Harvest Moon, because I never could have predicted how freaking addictive it could be to own an imaginary farm.
Notes: In no particular chronological order; disjointed, in a way that very much resembles flipping through a badly-organized photo album.
---------------------------------------------
#01 - Comfort
He can’t help but smile whenever he sees her teddy bear collection, arranged neatly on the shelf in her bedroom, and imagines her snuggling down amid blankets and pillows, hugging one of her cuddly little toys blissfully to her cheek.
#02 - Kiss
She thinks she might come to like the taste of red wine, if she can taste it on him, his lips and tongue gently teasing and meltingly sweet on hers.
#03 - Soft
Elli never slams doors when she’s angry; when he remembers a childhood filled with bitter arguments between two parents who assumed their tiny son long since asleep, he thinks he couldn’t have asked for a better housemate.
#04 - Pain
After an entire day enduring a moody female, Tim leads his usually sweet-natured assistant upstairs without a word and rubs gentle circles over her abdomen until she’s purring and half asleep; when she asks drowsily how he knew it was that time of the month, he just smiles.
#05 - Potatoes
“Doctor, I don’t understand why you hate French fries so much; I thought you were always encouraging people to eat more vegetables.”
#06 - Rain
The only thing she likes more than being out in the rain, wandering the streets until her hair and clothes are plastered to her skin, is his face when she whirls back into the Clinic, dripping wet and laughing.
#07 - Chocolate
Sometimes he still catches her sneaking bits of chocolate at her desk, but when she flashes that smile at him, holds the box out, asks sweetly if he’d like some, he can’t bring himself to scold her, and somehow finds himself breaking off a piece.
#08 - Happiness
As an adolescent who was going to change the world, he assumed happiness synonymous with victory; as she senses him watching her work and looks up with a warm smile, he wonders if it isn’t closer to contentment.
#09 - Telephone
When they got the telephone installed at the clinic for the emergency line, he sat her down and explained, very slowly and carefully, how to work it - but drat it, he was so entirely sweet about it that she couldn’t even be angry!
#10 - Ears
She is well acquainted with the old superstition that, when your ears are ringing, it means someone is talking about you, and she wonders why hers always start ringing on rainy Wednesday mornings when he goes to see Carter.
#11 - Name
He doesn’t mind that she and Ellen and Carter are the only ones in town who ever use his real name, although sometimes he wishes she would do it more.
#12 - Sensual
She loves his eyes, dark and contrasting sharply with skin just on the darker side of pale; loves his voice, low and quiet and refined; loves the clean scent of his soap mixed with the sweetbitter herbal clinging to him almost constantly; loves the feel of his hand resting gently on her shoulder, or brushing the hair out of her eyes, or smoothing down a bandage after the shots that she hates almost as much as Stu does; wonders if it makes her a bit sick that thinking about the taste of his skin beneath her lips can send her scurrying for a cold shower in the middle of the day.
#13 - Death
He knows that she has seen a lot of death for someone so young and naïve and soft-hearted, and that’s why he almost regrets exposing her to more - he knows the effect it has had on him, and he doesn’t want that for her, wants her to stay sweet and cheerful and hopeful.
#14 - Sex
The first time, it is a week before the wedding, after the temptation of privacy to do as they like and nothing between them but a paper-thin wall becomes overwhelming; and it was worth waiting years for, this gentle, hesitant, nearly reverent touch that she never expected from him, and it would have been worth waiting seven more days, but she’s still glad they did.
#15 - Touch
“It isn’t fair,” she announces sleepily, brushing her hand over his cheek and resting hers on his shoulder, “that your skin is softer than mine.”
#16 - Weakness
She remembers the day that she stopped being uncomfortable and afraid in his presence and started to actually like him; when she turned away to give the proud parents some privacy with their newborn child, she thought she might have seen a glimmer of moisture in his eyes as he watched the young family with a wistful smile.
#17 - Tears
If she thought it was hard to see him angry, it was nothing compared to the time she saw him cry.
#18 - Speed
Their wedding trip takes them to a faraway city, and when he lets her drive the gleaming black brand-new rental car back to the hotel after dinner - out of necessity; it’s hard to exercise moderation when experiencing great joy or great despair - he doesn’t know whether to be amused or terrified that his prim, demure Elli is a closet speed-demon.
#19 - Wind
Furious and blushing, she scrambles to smooth her skirts back down again, and, delicately averting his eyes, he laughs.
#20 - Freedom
He told her once that a life devoid of all obligation is empty and devoid of meaning, and she started to argue; then she thought of Stu and Grandma - and him - and didn’t, but gave the rambunctious little boy and the sweet, frail old woman extra-big hugs next visit.
#21 - Life
It’s difficult, but he doesn’t laugh when this owl-eyed, shaggy-haired scrap that he calls his nurse tells him, solemn and reverent and hesitant, that she thinks it’s amazing and noble that he dedicates his life to fighting for other people’s; instead, he tells her coolly that she’s still very young, and she’ll learn eventually to stop romanticizing everything.
#22 - Jealousy
It was a long time before he felt comfortable enough to joke with her and laugh when she blushed at his teasing, and somehow it rubs him the wrong way to hear her sparkling laugh mingle with that new farmer’s minutes after they first met.
#23 - Hands
When she offers in adorable and adoring concern to massage an ankle that he twisted while out hiking, and the feel of those tiny, soft, surprisingly strong hands of hers working away make him wonder ashamedly what other muscles he could pull, he thinks resignedly that he might never get used to being allowed to think these things.
#24 - Taste
There are very, very few men that she would ever ask for fashion advice; he just happens to be all of them.
#25 - Devotion
From fondness, it was a small step to devotion, not only to the job that is gradually becoming her life, but to the man who chose to trust her with it.
#26 - Forever
Neither of them is the sort that likes to keep their options open; now that they’re together, they’ll stay that way.
#27 - Blood
He remembers the day that she really earned his trust and respect; if she could see her own baby brother lying unconscious in the middle of Rose Square, trampled by a runaway horse and bleeding badly, and maintain a cool head and quick reflexes, she could handle a lot more than he had been trusting to her.
#28 - Sickness
Sometimes, when she gets the flu and can’t sleep for coughing and aching and fever, he’ll sit up with her, talking to her to keep her mind off of it, no matter how hard she tries to get him back to bed.
#29 - Melody
He doesn’t realize, until after he has asked her to stop singing while she works because it distracts him, how much he likes it.
#30 - Star
He teased her when he caught her wishing on a star, but after she stuck her tongue out at him and left in a huff, he turned back to the window and made a wish of his own.
#31 - Home
The first time she absently referred to the clinic as home, he was irrationally thrilled and a little envious, until he realized with a start that it had become home to him, too.
#32 - Confusion
Once, in the delirium of fever, he called her by a different girl’s name, but it was okay, because he asked her piteously, a rare slip of dignity, to go find Elli.
#33 - Fear
It was a long time before she found the courage to ask herself what might follow from devotion.
#34 - Lightning/Thunder
He’s almost able to forget that he thinks of her as more than a child when she creeps hesitantly into his room and admits, face buried in his shoulder, that she’s afraid of the storm.
#35 - Bonds
When he overhears his sweet-natured little seventeen-year old nurse happily turn down a party invitation in favour of spending Saturday night studying, he has a flashback to his own teen years, and wonders if they have more in common than he thought; when he spends all evening distracting her by chatting because he’s spent the day locked in his own thoughts and misses other people, she wonders it, too.
#36 - Market
“Well, it’s not fair that you can haggle better than I can,” he replies, cautiously wrapping his arms around her and wondering if it would be right to stroke her hair soothingly as she climbs closer into his lap.
#37 - Technology
A few times now, he’s suggested getting a computer in at the Clinic, just so that she wouldn’t have to spend her days buried in hard-copy files; and every time, she wrinkles her nose and reminds him that she’s no good with electronics - remember the telephone, after all.
#38 - Gift
“Please open it now?” she entreats, and she helps him pull off the ribbon and wrapping, and ends up opening most of it herself.
#39 - Smile
The first time he saw her smile, sweet and beaming and a little nervous, he thought, they have given me a pretty little child for an assistant.
#40 - Innocence
When he catches her climbing out of the Hot Spa, dripping wet and demanding angrily who’s run off with her towel, she wonders, baffled, why he’s staring at her like that.
#41 - Completion
He’s been giving her those looks all evening, but she’s not going to bed until she finishes her jigsaw puzzle.
#42 - Clouds
She almost hates to interrupt him when she follows him secretly to Mother’s Hill with a surprise picnic, and finds him staring up at the sky, trying to find fluffy white shapes.
#43 - Sky
In eight years, this is the first time they’ve been up to Goddess Peak for the Full Moon Festival; by the end of the night, both of them are generally ignoring the full moon to stare, fascinated, at the night sky, dotted with stars, soft and warm as black velvet.
#44 - Heaven
It wasn’t quite heaven, laying the tiny infant girl in a crib filled with fluffy yellow blankets and kissing her softly goodnight on the forehead, because even amid the rapture of new motherhood, she could feel a small, subtle shadow stealing across her happiness; she knew by his eyes that something was wrong.
#45 - Hell
It wasn’t quite hell, laying the tiny infant girl in a far narrower and colder bed, the beautiful christening gown lovingly made by a proud grandmother a shroud in the end, kissing her softly goodbye on the forehead, because his hands were gently at her shoulders, and she could feel him trembling where his arm touched her back, and she remembered that there were still reasons to go on living.
#46 - Sun
He likes to make love in the pale, cool sunlight of early morning, when a light kiss against her forehead to stir her from sleep leads to more heated and insistent caresses, and both of them spend the rest of the day with perma-smiles.
#47 - Moon
Her favourite time is in the evening, with the moonlight spilling in through the window, when they can snuggle up afterwards, delightfully exhausted, or spend a light-hearted, playful hour splashing about in the bath; most of the time, to compromise, they do both.
#48 - Waves
The sound of the ocean, associated already in her mind with childhood and splashing in the water, and with the endless summers of her teens and stretching out on a beach blanket with Mary, studying a medical textbook while Mary read fairytales and Karen and Ann and Popuri splashed in the water; now associated ever after with the red rose of “love, perfect and triumphant” and the man that she has admired deeply, both from nearby and afar, for years.
#49 - Hair
The first time she saw his hair, her fingers itched to comb it down for him, and she wondered if this city-boy had paid good money to have it look that way; now, she loves it and would be devastated if he figured out how to work a comb.
#50 - Supernova
She’s always been glad that they didn’t fall instantly and intensely in love, because nothing that burns that bright and that hot lasts for long; and even if that isn’t true for everyone, he doesn’t bother correcting her, because it’s true for them, and he’s always been glad too.
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