Die Hard fic for sexy_right: Times Square Can't Shine as Bright as You

[persnickett]

Title: Times Square Can't Shine as Bright as You
Author: persnickett
Rating: PG
Prompt:Times Square can't shine as bright as you
Notes: Written for the 'A Song in their Hearts!' challenge at sexy_right. The challenge was to use a lyric from the top 10 songs on the charts the week Live Free or Die Hard was released as a prompt. Mine is from Hey There Delilah

Comments

[severina2001]

*happy sigh*

I love this. There is such a relaxed ease to it, despite Matt's frantic pacing. Like John and Matt are inevitable, just like John running into trouble on a holiday is inevitable and Matt's motormouth is inevitable. I also love that John's got this figured out already, with that fascination with the lips and the hair, and it's "brainy mysterious" Matt who kind of gets hit in the face with the realization of what he's feeling.

Also, I'm not even INTO this dude's lips/mouth and the things he could do with them and I still had to take a breath when I got to the whole sucking-on-a-straw thing.

Fuzz-ball. Is it a tribble?

[persnickett]

Aw, I'm glad you liked it.

I think part of the feeling of 'ease' that you got with this, is that it is lacking the usual element of angst, however lighthearted, I generally tend to use. There's none of the usual'aaaaaaaaack I will ruin his life with my dirty-old-manness' or 'he could never go for a nerd like me' in this. I realized that after I posted it, and wondered what you'd say since you always claim to like angst-free writing, and I always argue it won't have a point. Looks like you're one of the few people who actually know what they like ;)

It's funny, the lips are definitely not my favourite of Matt's features either, so I'm impressed I got you to pause for breath with them. Especially since I didn't really describe an image in any way, beyond to say John likes it. Maybe it's because that way it leaves the entire image up to you? Hmmm....

"Fuzz-ball. Is it a tribble?"
NAILED IT. (and thank you for nailing it, because I was worried that wouldn't translate)

Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed this. <3

[emma_in_oz]

Awww.

[persnickett]

:D