[fic] lay me down; fringe; olivia/charlie; pg13

[crickets]

lay me down, pg13
fringe, olivia/charlie, 163
written for falseeeyelashes comment fic snowpocalypse

This is before.

She dreams of him.

He's all hard edges and soft words when he presses her against her apartment door. He's close, but not quite there, lips just out of contact, not close enough to kiss.

Olivia reaches out, her fingers twisting in his hair, pulling him closer. Yet still, he is impossibly far away, only his hips and hands making the contact she needs from him.

"Come on, Charlie," she encourages, pressing herself into him.

"You're gonna miss me when I'm gone, Liv," his words come out a gruff whisper against her lips, all his words come out a gruff whisper.

She always wakes at this point, unsatisfied, embarrassed, her breath uneven, almost choking.

-

This is after.

(After she buries Charlie.)

When he visits her in her dreams now, it is nearly the same.

But his words, those rough hushed tones, are different. "This isn't the end, Liv," he tells her this time.

This time, she doesn't wake up.

-fin