daily15's word #110.
Fandom: Ally McBeal.
Character: Nelle, Nelle/John-ish.
Prompt: daily15's #110 - loft.
Author Note: Set mid-second season. (It's a very tenuous connection, heh.)
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Nelle hasn’t been able to concentrate all day. Her case, one of the more ridiculous cases she’d been assigned since she started working here, isn’t enough to take her mind off John Cage. He’s been a puzzle to her since the day she met him - he’s not the kind of guy she thought she’d fall for, but fallen she has and she doesn’t know how to handle it. There’s just something about him that draws her in and, even in the short time they’ve been together so far, she’s become addicted to his oh-so-soft touch and the butterflies she feels fluttering in her stomach when he kisses her.
Nelle knows that she’s beautiful by most people’s standards; woman have hated her for it, men have pursued her based solely on it and she’s used it to her advantage many times in the past. It doesn’t make her any less insecure than anyone else though and she has her days when she doubts that her looks are enough. It’s especially true with John, who loves her beauty but would probably rather she connected to his inner world instead. She’s tried and she’s failed and she’s secretly afraid those failures will cost her, with Ally so neurotic and available, just one office away.
And then there’s Renee, who loves to make her jealous. Jealousy’s an emotion that Nelle tries not to admit she suffers from but she suffers worst than most, she just internalises as much of it as possible because it doesn’t fit into her Sub-Zero façade. John’s face floats in front of her mind again and that’s it, what little interest she has in the case expires. Snapping the file closed, she stands up and grabs her coat.
After all she’s defending a guy who’s already admitted - to the jury, no less - to setting fire to his neighbour’s loft, while the entire family was still inside, because ‘they deserved a shock’. It’s open and closed; he’s guilty and she doesn’t expect to win, whatever Richard’s expectations were when he took the case.
Instead of sitting here wondering what John’s doing (and who he’s doing it with) she’s going to go and find out. She’s not sure when her personal life started to take priority over her work life, but she isn’t going to fight the change.
Character: Nelle, Nelle/John-ish.
Prompt: daily15's #110 - loft.
Author Note: Set mid-second season. (It's a very tenuous connection, heh.)
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Nelle hasn’t been able to concentrate all day. Her case, one of the more ridiculous cases she’d been assigned since she started working here, isn’t enough to take her mind off John Cage. He’s been a puzzle to her since the day she met him - he’s not the kind of guy she thought she’d fall for, but fallen she has and she doesn’t know how to handle it. There’s just something about him that draws her in and, even in the short time they’ve been together so far, she’s become addicted to his oh-so-soft touch and the butterflies she feels fluttering in her stomach when he kisses her.
Nelle knows that she’s beautiful by most people’s standards; woman have hated her for it, men have pursued her based solely on it and she’s used it to her advantage many times in the past. It doesn’t make her any less insecure than anyone else though and she has her days when she doubts that her looks are enough. It’s especially true with John, who loves her beauty but would probably rather she connected to his inner world instead. She’s tried and she’s failed and she’s secretly afraid those failures will cost her, with Ally so neurotic and available, just one office away.
And then there’s Renee, who loves to make her jealous. Jealousy’s an emotion that Nelle tries not to admit she suffers from but she suffers worst than most, she just internalises as much of it as possible because it doesn’t fit into her Sub-Zero façade. John’s face floats in front of her mind again and that’s it, what little interest she has in the case expires. Snapping the file closed, she stands up and grabs her coat.
After all she’s defending a guy who’s already admitted - to the jury, no less - to setting fire to his neighbour’s loft, while the entire family was still inside, because ‘they deserved a shock’. It’s open and closed; he’s guilty and she doesn’t expect to win, whatever Richard’s expectations were when he took the case.
Instead of sitting here wondering what John’s doing (and who he’s doing it with) she’s going to go and find out. She’s not sure when her personal life started to take priority over her work life, but she isn’t going to fight the change.