Fic: ER, "Steady Now"

[anxietygrrl]

Title: "Steady Now"
Fandom: ER
Characters/Pairing: Ray/Neela
Rated: M (16+)
Word count: ~4700
Summary: In a word: FINALLY. Episode follow-up to 15x20, "Shifting Equilibrium."
Notes: Many thanks to jesshelga, lowriseflare, and kirbyfest for the notes and encouragement.

Comments

[hiddenw]

Woohoo! Long and smutty. I love how you write them. And yeah I totally teared up ::facepalm::

There were so many good parts so let me just mention a few now. Neela admitting how much she's missed him, having to stop herself from going at it with him in her office, how their kiss didn't feel like they were rushing things but catching up, how he had left room for her at his place and he hadn't even realized it until now, the Ikea remark, how he tells her he wants it to be just them, how she did her sex homework (she likes being prepared, OKAY!), that quip that she's too cheap for a hotel, and finally how she can't help but say she loves him and then freaks out that she said it to soon and just "No, that's-- Too soon? Are you--? Neela."

In conclusion: =)

Oh, I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last night and thought of you. Oh, Shane. That hair is just a world of no.

[anxietygrrl]

And yeah I totally teared up ::facepalm::

Score!

Uh, that is, hooray, you liked it! Thank you! I'm glad that my continuing ridiculous levels of earnestness about how cute and super-dooper-omg in love they are may be to the benefit of others in some small way.

FYI: I am still stunned every time I write something even vaguely smutty.

I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last night and thought of you.

LOL! Oh, lordy. That's kind of a terrible thing to say to someone! Ah, well, I've got only myself to blame.

P.S. You should read lowriseflare's fics if you haven't yet. They are straight-up fantastic.

[hiddenw]

I remember going 'Wait. Does she write smut? I don't recall her doing that." But it felt natural that I just thought 'huh. I guess she does.'

I'm starting to appreciate earnestness over irony again. Must be the old age.

Oh, thanks for the tip on fic. I will check it out.

[anxietygrrl]

"Detour" was my first venture into Rated-M-for-sexytime territory, but I think this was smuttier.

Earnestness is the best. Gosh.

[lowriseflare]

I've already told you fifty times how much I like this, but...I REALLY LIKE IT, OKAY? It gave me feelings. You should write them all the time. Okay good talk.

[anxietygrrl]

Hee! Thank you again.

[jesshelga]

I feel as though I forgot to mention:

1) Awesome
2) She watched his arms when he reached for things, and got funny little thrills at glimpses of his tattoos = TEE HEE!

[anxietygrrl]

I think you did mention those things, but I appreciate the effort you made to mention them in a different venue.

THEY ARE IN SEXY, SEXY LOVE. IN A CUTE WAY.

[ohourheartsbeat]

Please, PLEASE, PLEASE tell me you're writing more. Or you have more. Or something. Because this is so good. Truly.

(And btw, your Ray/Neela 'srsly? gtfo.' icon that you replied to hiddenw with? Major L-O-freakin-L's were had.)

[anxietygrrl]

(Hee! It sums up my feelings at that moment.)

Thank you so much! I hope I can write more, but I don't know when that might be, so I didn't want to call this "1/?".

[ohourheartsbeat]

it would be AWESOME if you wrote more, of this or anything. have you written fic for them before or for any other fandom?

[anxietygrrl]

I don't write a lot, but I have a few more R/N fics and a couple other random things under my fic tag.

[rachel_wilder]

This was really, really wonderful--left me hungering for more!

[anxietygrrl]

Thank you!